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Apple TV set hinted in 2013 to tout Siri voice control

Published on: 9th November, 2011

Apple’s TV set that Steve Jobs had hinted before his death is still far from appearing, but some elements have shown up, according to recent rumors. The NY Times found out from sources that the controlling solution Jobs had mentioned would be Siri, the voice command engine for natural language, already included in the iPhone [...]

$500 million paid to TiVo by Dish Network and EchoStar to settle lawsuit

Published on: 12th May, 2011

Dish Network and EchoStar, its parent company, reached a settlement deal with TiVo in the beginning of this month. After losing the last appeal, Dish and EchoStar agreed to pay TiVo $500 million to put an end to all lawsuits and trade bans on DVRs. A sum of $300 million will be paid up front [...]

Spinning off of Philips TV business

Published on: 2nd May, 2011

In a try to turn his company’s sinking profits around, Frans van Houten, new CEO at Philips, made a first move spinning off the loss of the company making TV business. TPV, the Hong-Kong display manufacturer, has taken a seventy percent stake of Philips TV branch, Philips keeping the other thirty percent. It has however [...]

Four new desktop LCDs with passive 3D support from LG

Published on: 2nd May, 2011

On April 26, 2011, LG has released four computer LCDs with a hope of lowering the 3D’s price. Both the Cinema 3D D41P and D42P use passive 3D which is flicker-free, as well as cheaper to run without the need for any expensive active shutter glasses. All these are able to optionally convert 2D images [...]

Sony to start shipping its new 2011 Bravia TVs

Published on: 18th April, 2011

Sony has recently announced that it will soon start shipping the company’s 2011 range of Bravia TVs presented at CES. Of the new 37 models, 32 are Internet-connected and 23 benefit from 3D displays. The connected TVs offer or will soon offer access to Netflix for TV shows and streaming movies, Crackle for Hollywood TV [...]

YouTube will try ‘premium’ channels to attract viewers

Published on: 13th April, 2011

YouTube hopes turning to original content to make content for Google TV and attract viewers, as sources said. The Google video site plans to launch about twenty ‘premium’ channels with unique content of five to ten hours every week. The Wall Street Journal said YouTube would be willing to spend about $100 million in order [...]

Toshiba Europe presents HDTVs and Toshiba Places

Published on: 13th April, 2011

Toshiba has presented its new HDTVs in Europe, together with its new content platform dedicated to connected notebooks and TVs. The Internet link provides access to Video on Demand services including Viewster, Woomi, Acetrax, Hit Entertainment, Boing, Boomerang, Box Office 365, and Cartoon Network. Social networking, music, application and services areas, or gaming can be [...]

Fox expects that Time Warner pulls channels from TV iPad application

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Fox recently announced to have given Time Warner Cable a cease-and-desist letter, asking it to withdraw Fox channels from the TV iPad application at TWCable. The studio considered that Time Warner did not have the right to stream its shows on the iPad tablet, even over the application’s home Wi-Fi limitation. Although Time Warner has [...]

Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Panasonic to settle 3D glasses standard

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Xpand 3D and Panasonic have recently put out an initiative to settle on a 3D glasses standard. M-3DI, which includes support from other companies such as Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Seiko Epson or ViewSonic, would create a reliable approach to active-shutter 3D for not only theaters and TVs, but also home projectors and computers. The new group [...]

100 million downloads for Samsung Apps and Angry Birds

Published on: 28th March, 2011

On March 24, 2011, Samsung announced that the Samsung Apps TV and mobile application store has already seen almost 100 million downloads since the launch of the service in June 2010. The milestone was reached in about 10 months and the store currently offers over 13,000 applications for Samsung’s hardware offerings. As a comparison, the [...]

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