Google may be looking into enhancing its new Google TV product, a web-meets-TV service, or build out its own video-on-demand service.
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On Wednesday, Cook also announced an updated version of Apple TV, the company's Web-TV integration device that competes with products like Google TV, Roku and Boxee.
Others who have studied the issue say the problem may lie as much in the act of watching TV--or playing videogames or surfing the Web--as opposed to playing outside.
To understand how this works, let us imagine that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) develops a perfectly fragmented and disintegrated Web TV-supply chain: Every activity from the new TV-concept development, to design, manufacturing, marketing, and so on can be performed by independent subcontractors.
To connect an iPad to the service, an Akamai rep simply signed into the web-based interface on both the TV and the tablet (though the service is generally compatible with any web-connected device).
MIAMI, Florida and BARCELONA, Spain - Feb. 27, 2012 - At the IAB Annual Leadership Summit and Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today unveiled the industry's first fully integrated video technology platform, code named Project Primetime, to enable smooth, TV-like experiences for ad-supported videos across Web-connected devices.
They met in 2007 at CBS, where they co-produced a short-lived Web TV show.
But there is something else inside him that he revealed in his web-TV series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
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On XanGo tv, a company-sponsored Web site where distributors are encouraged to post testimonial videos, Robert Hoskins of Owensboro, Ky.
Because the XPS One, made by Asustek of Taiwan, has a built-in television receiver that makes it as easy to watch and record cable TV as to surf the Web and download videos from YouTube--finally delivering on the long-awaited prophecy of TV-PC-Internet convergence.
Redbox parent Coinstar and joint venture partner Verizon this morning revealed some details on their plans for Redbox Instant by Verizon, their long-planned streaming video service that will compete head-to-head with Netflix, Hulu and other Web-based movie and TV streaming businesses.
Working with companies like Reveille, Telemundo, Dots and Bag of Misfits, Paula and Infusion Development have developed a search tool that will power a Web-based casting process for reality and scripted TV and Web series, as well as advertising and anything that requires unique individuals on any screen.
The next phase would be televisions that connected to the Internet through Wi-Fi, which would allow users to stream Web-original content on the TV.
However, unlike Apple's AirPlay -- which delivers a similar UX by streaming video from a mobile device to an Apple TV -- Google's tech simply has your Google TV device stream the video directly from the web.
Yes, you heard correctly: web-enabled TV applications are no longer the stuff of sci-fi films.
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Second, since tablets are often used while watching television, tighter integration between the TV commercial and the tablet-based Web experience should be mandatory.
The Public Broadcasting Service got geek this week, debuting NerdTV, a downloadable, Web-only TV series that features interviews with a wide array of technology inventors and executives.
Samsung's new Web-connected TV and LG's Smart TV platforms can stream video from a computer or from a few smartphone models using a protocol called DLNA. Setup isn't a cakewalk.
Speaking to GigaOM, Redbox Instant CEO Shawn Strickland said his product's focus remains movies -- both physical and digital -- which differs from Netflix's TV-heavy library and emphasis on web content.
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By requiring authentication to access live programming on new media devices, ESPN and its distribution partners are extending their lucrative pay-TV business model onto the Web as the Internet becomes a more mainstream place for consumers to watch video content and a potential replacement to traditional TV.
TeleCruz designs a system-on-a-chip that equips a TV set's innards with modest e-mail and Web capabilities without the need for fancy external electronics.
As the newest addition to the NETGEAR family of streaming players for connected home theater entertainment, NeoTV PRIME enables you to easily find what you love to watch - whether it's on live TV, streaming entertainment, apps, or the web- using one small NeoTV player.
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Mr Keys worked for Sacramento-based TV station KTXL FOX 40 - owned by Tribune - as its web producer but his job was terminated in late October 2010, the indictment adds.
This was supposed to be the year that the TV makers got all gung-ho over Google TV, but the technology for surfing the Web on the big screen has received lackluster reviews, and Google asked the TV makers to hold up.
Typically, says Poptent president Neil Perry, marketers buy broadcast-ready spots for TV spots and Web videos.
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Then, said software pushes the clip of your choosing to a web-enabled Samsung TV.
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The deal means NBC has the rights to air already-written shows on TV, the web and on DVD.
It's quite interesting to see this new take on web-to-TV, especially considering the advantages this poses over other similar platforms.
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