Whether products like the GameStick will cannibalize the traditional console business is an interesting question: with a developed TV-app ecosystem, this kind of plug-in smart stick might conversely challenge the Smart TV business, with a dedicated gamepad as a bonus.
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And tonight the TV-discovery app Peel will offer something a little different to Samsung Galaxy Tab users.
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There are two possible ways Apple could open up the Apple TV platform to third-party app developers: It could allow devs to create dedicated TV apps, or it could more heavily leverage (and open up) the AirPlay feature already baked into Apple TV to port existing iPad apps to the big screen.
There will be plenty of winners and losers leaving CES, but few had a more certain outcome than the second-screen TV app company GetGlue.
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But WPT and Toronto-based Smart TV game app makers TransGaming announced a partnership today that might have you doing both at the same time.
Getting Spotify on your Samsung TV is easy: simply download the Spotify app to your internet-connected Samsung Smart TV or to your Blu-ray player or home theatre system, and log on.
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The news TV app combines existing on-demand video and text content from BBC News online and brings it to connected living-room TV screens.
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Unlike AirPlay, DIAL lets you launch apps, even web apps, on the TV -- if it's a Smart TV, you'll even be redirected to download an appropriate app from its app store.
The demo at the at CES's bloggers lounge included all four screens with a Samsung Blu-ray player's app delivering both traditional live TV, DVR'd content and video-on-demand -- in this case the DVR content was being streamed from a FiOS DVR, but the device could have internal storage.
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There are even more questions about whether a crowded TV Guide app market will be driven by check-ins and comments or just the best interface.
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Relying largely on a cross-platform mobile strategy and mobile advertising, TV Guide Digital has seen very positive results since it launched its iPhone app in October 2009--more than 1 million downloads of the app within six months of launch, and a total of 3.5 million downloads so far across iPhone, iPad and Android.
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We launched a new TV app that gives customers convenient access to self-support information and tools for their U-verse TV service directly from their TV screen.
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TiVo, the company that made its fortune by making you forget about live television, is now attempting to revamp the traditional TV guide with a new content-discovery feature for its iPad app.
Slothful Sundays that begin with a bed-bound TV session often translated into an extra bout of dozing in the Up app.
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Other changes include that any pre-installed client app on something like a phone, computer, or TV will need Twitter's permission before it ships (sensing a trend here?), or potentially face revocation of its application key.
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They can connect their Samsung TV to a Samsung smartphone via a mobile Fitness app, or connect to a WiFi-enabled scale to manage their weight goals.
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The second app, simply titled NBC Olympics, will provide short-form highlights, TV and online schedules, live results, columns and the new Primetime Companion feature -- the ultimate complementary, second-screen experience for NBC's nightly primetime Olympic broadcasts.
Moreover, the new app will integrate the existing CBS Connect App experience by the start of the Fall TV season, bringing a polished second-screen experience to those watching CSI, Criminal Minds, Hawaii Five-O and NCIS: Los Angeles.
Other useful features of the app include being able to browse the entire week's TV through a user-friendly TV Guide, remote record both individual programmes and entire series, get recommendations of other programmes you may like, and manage recording clashes.
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Comcast today unveiled a new iPad app that will allow Comcast subscribers to watch live TV on their iPads (and Android-powered tablets) in their homes.
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That said, the handset hasn't shed its predecessor's built-in media connectivity, given that an MHL connection with any compatible TV will trigger the same app carousel and ability to mirror content.
The Lexington, Mass. company, run by husband and wife team Andrew Prihodko and Sharon Peyer, operates a Netflix-like app for iOS and Android that gives users access to a whole slew of TV shows and movies.
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Whether you want to watch the news in the kitchen while you make dinner, or the baseball game on the patio on a warm evening, or late night TV without disturbing anyone, the HDHomeRun PRIME App enables viewing and recording of live cable TV anywhere in your home's Wi-Fi network.
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The ability to use your iPhone or iPod touch to control your U-verse TV with a full-featured, intuitive U-verse remote control with channel, guide, DVR, interactive app and on-demand controls, now available on the U-verse App for iPhone and iPod touch.
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Presently, HBO Go only shows content to folks who subscribe to the channel via their pay-TV provider, but Plepler seems to think that there's potential to sell monthly access to the app itself so long as buyers are also subscribed to a broadband internet connection.
Version 0.5 of the Epiphany Eyewear will contain a wifi chip, enabling the device to pair with a phone or tablet, sending the camera feed in real-time to a mobile Augmented Reality app or a social video app or to our site yougen.tv.
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