Once you see The Sopranos or a baseball, football or basketball game in high def, filling a big, sharp screen, you'll wince at having to go back to fuzzy regular TV.
And yet, just as quickly as they are to eye my Iphone, they turn back to watch TV on their own cool gadgets.
So back to Apple TV, which is not trying to harness the great wide web and put it on television.
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Unplug it and the Z-Base automatically switches back to TV sound.
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And speaking of fine-motor skills, my Etch A Sketch probably still bears the name "Ralph" on its screen in serviceable script about the only thing I mastered before I got frustrated, tossed it aside and went back to watching TV.
The model also indicated that the carmaker would have sold just as many vehicles but spent less on advertising if it had allocated 40% of its budget to print and dialed back spending on TV spots to 54% of its budget.
According to Forrester's Gina Sverdlov, however, that's not due to a shift back towards TV or other activities, but to a changing notion of what "being online" means to individuals.
"The power and simplicity of voice integration as part of a TV interface is clear the moment you sit back and speak to your TV, " said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager, Nuance Mobile.
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His secret dash to Afghanistan and speech from the Bagram airbase (speaking at 4am local time in order to hit prime-time TV back home) suggests that Mr Obama has decided to squeeze every ounce of electoral advantage from it.
After we ramp this all up to the long-term future of TV, we come back to reality with Windows Home Server's inclusion of Media Center features -- while not to the level of a true headless Media Center PC, this move might foreshadow (maybe not too-distant) future development of just such a kit.
If you do that, you can move your set-top box back to where my Apple TV now sits.
But now that the Japanese have been arm-twisted into cutting back TV exports to the U.S., profits in that area should improve.
For parallels, hark back to what happened when TV sets replaced radios in homes or when PCs replaced mainframes in offices.
But if you add the wife of pitcher Roger Clemens being dragged into the steroids investigation, sounds like time to check in with BPP's sports analyst Bill Wolff - take out a break from his day and night job on some news network, to channel back to his days as a pro-sports producer TV type.
Each flagship Samsung Smart TV comes with a Smart Evolution slot at the back of the TV that allows consumers to easily update the hardware and software on their TVs so that they can stay up-to-date with the latest innovations.
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Kim then shifts into sales-mode by pointing out that Samsung's more power-efficient 240Hz LCDs and Plasmas with highly-reflective black panels and LED edge-lighting are quickly cutting into any advantage offered by OLEDs -- including thinness if you factor in the additional electronics you'd have to slap onto the back of those 3-mm thick OLED panels to create a TV.
Production on the long-awaited big-screen version of the addictive TV show has been pushed back to 2013.
Perhaps the most revealing insight into the challenge that Europe faces was provided by President Sarkozy in a TV interview when he got back to France.
Smart View lets consumers move content seamlessly from the TV to connected devices and back in real-time, so consumers never miss a moment of their favorite shows using AllShare.
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When the family moved back to England she started to watched Formula One on TV with her sister.
The Wireless Receiver also has full Total Home DVR capabilities to manage and play back recordings and pause and rewind live TV from any TV in the home.
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When he got back to his position alongside the court, the giant TV screen at Arthur Ashe Stadium had him on close-up and then showed a replay of his fall.
One of the first publishers to do this successfully was TV Guide, way back in the late 1980s.
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WD's My Book AV DVR expander allows users to take back control of their DVR and keep more of their TV shows.
The focus of last year's event was smart TV interfaces, but attention has swung back to the screens themselves this year with Sony and others declaring 4k's time has come.
Back to Tosh: There was talk that he might lose his TV show.
Harrison gave a press conference on Belgian TV outlining the plans to get the club back into the first division.
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They're just excited to be back catching beads, especially those thrown by Saints players and TV stars like Taylor Hicks and James Gandolfini.
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