Japanese TV makers would spearhead a trend toward equipping connected TVs with built-in cameras.
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Expect to hear a lot about connected TVs from the Consume Electronics Show next week.
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By 2015 more than 43 million homes are expected to have Web-connected TVs, says Forrester Research.
Sharp plans to extend the Galapagos service to connected TVs and smartphones in the future.
By 2015 more than 43 million homes are expected to have Internet connected TVs, according to Forrester Research.
By 2015, more than 43 million homes are expected to have connected TVs, according to Forrester Research.
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We have the best content, available on a huge range of living room devices, internet-connected TVs and tablets.
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It built more sophisticated TVs - including one of the first Connected TVs, well ahead of the market.
Other themes likely to surface at 2011 CES are car technology, connected TVs and connected home appliances, said Oxman.
Growth for Smosh will come in the form of more channels, higher CPM payments and opportunities on connected TVs.
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All are connected TVs with built-in Wifi featuring apps from Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr, Netflix, VUDU and Cinema Now (Best Buy).
The BBC went and developed a news application for connected TVs to complement its 24-hour television news channel and web site.
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Adobe Access 4 software will support native iOS apps, extending its existing support for desktop operating systems, Android apps and connected TVs.
As is the case with free videos on YouTube, the pay channels will be available for viewing on computers, mobile devices and Internet-connected TVs.
This new platform delivers premium video and ad content consistently across all major platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, desktop operating systems and connected TVs.
For connected TVs, they are going to introduce new TVs with Time Warner Cable (TWX) that will allow viewing all cable content without a set-top box.
He didn't figure in how fast the home-router market would get saturated or how quickly the set-top box would begin to move inside the guts of connected TVs.
This allows content providers to securely deliver and monetize content with a single back-end workflow, delivering rich, engaging experiences on desktop, connected TVs, Blu-ray players, tablets and smartphones.
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PCs, which generated 97% of consumer Internet traffic in 2010, will generate 87% of such traffic in 2015, as tablets, smart phones and connected TVs play a greater role.
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Forrester analyst James McQuivey says that only about half of the people who rush out to get Net-connected TVs even bother to connect them to the Internet at all.
The research firm says connected TVs accounted for 19% of HDTV sales in the U.S. in 2010, and the total should grow to 29% this year, and 58% in 2015.
At IBC 2011, Opera Software pulls out of its hat the all new Opera TV Store, a simple solution for developers to build HTML5 apps for connected TVs and devices.
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This launch builds on BBC iPlayer's strategy to move beyond the PC and make more quality BBC content available across mobile, tablet and internet connected TVs, delivering increased value to audiences.
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That means there's no need to run the Skype desktop app -- it'll just be integrated into whatever you're running, like the recent Panasonic VIERA connected TVs with Skype integration.
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One of the curiosities of so-called connected TVs, which directly plug into the Internet to access web applications and services, is that they rely on external camera attachments to support video calls.
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Sony and Samsung demonstrated that they can cut deals and there are deals to be done at the 2011 CES with announcements of TWC, Comcast, and DirecTV implementations on their connected TVs.
"One of the primary barriers to mainstream adoption of connected TVs has been the lack of good content, " said Rob DelaCruz, General Manager, Connected TV and Mobile Video, The AOL On Network.
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In a letter to investors, Hastings credited the gains to people's interest in watching a wide range of entertainment on the tablet computers and Internet-connected TVs that they got as holiday gifts.
Vudu general manager Edward Lichty joined the company from TiVo just before the box launched and helped shift the strategy, abandoning the box and getting the service embedded into Internet-connected TVs and DVD players.
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