Six months later, we could find very little sign of Flash-developed content in Top Grossing of App Store and Android, except for some rare exceptions of non-demanding media content.
This is a terrific cost-effective solution for cable operators looking to deliver broadband content and over-the-top television to subscribers.
Basically home gateway enables full premium of full pay TV and VOD content without any set-top boxes.
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You've got a scroll wheel of fanned-out content on top and an open desktop onto which you can drop stuff for easy access.
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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.
Waze CEO Noam Bardin says that while his team was thinking bottom-up, figuring out how to sell ads against its traffic content, Meeker was thinking top-down, advising him to imagine how Waze can steal dollars from the multibillion-dollar billboard and radio markets.
Not everyone in Washington agreed with her, but those who came to her mountain-top were content to listen rather than argue.
With uncertainty surrounding the Net Neutrality issue, it is easy to see how content and over-the-top service providers could benefit from deploying their own networks as an alternative to conventional telco and mobile carrier networks.
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Moreover, Google will find it difficult to defend that it has not been deceptive with consumers in publicly representing Google as user-aligned, unconflicted and unbiased, when the facts powerfully show Google has an advertiser-aligned business model, has serious undisclosed conflicts and biases its dominant search business by self-dealing Google content top rankings while burying the rankings of some competitors.
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In response, television companies will attempt to connect TVs to the Internet and share content between mobile devices, set-top boxes and televisions.
Over lunch in the expansive Rio de Janeiro office they share, the three describe their plan continue to produce top-quality content, take Organizaes Globo into the world of new media and expand elsewhere in Latin America.
Sony announced last month that they would be releasing products including their new Internet Video Link capabilities, which will allow users to stream free standard and high-definition content through their broadband connections directly to the television, bypassing any set-top boxes or computers.
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Viewers will need yet another set-top box to view 3D content likely limited to "cartoons" at first.
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Recent data released by Nielsen Holdings shows that Netflix is the first paid subscriber-based content site to be in the top 10 websites based on unique visitors.
Chill, a new social discovery service that aims to help users mediate the glut of online video content, is catching the attention of top-tier investors and online video gurus.
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In addition to the traditional Motorola set-top business, the company offers Google TV, a software platform offered through OEMs via both televisions and after-market set-top boxes, to integrate content from cable and the open Internet.
Rather than charging top euro for delicious content, pay-TV distributors are trying to hook Germans on technology.
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The company recently announced it would make a set-top box so consumers could stream content to their homes.
Featured content is showcased right at the top and easy-to-browse shelves serve up popular music, movies and TV show choices.
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"Today, we have millions of set-top boxes deployed capable of delivering content to DLNA premium content products using our Signature Home Service, " said Mike LaJoie, EVP and CTO of Time Warner Cable.
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"Devices supporting the DLNA premium content guidelines can access premium services using XG1 set-top boxes with the AnyRoom DVR service that Comcast has begun deploying, " said Tony Werner, EVP and CTO, Comcast Cable.
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All DISH customers can access On Demand content associated with their programming package regardless of their set-top box model.
Since the iPhone and iPad can wirelessly stream content to a TV attached to an Apple TV set-top box, why not extend this capability, muses Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes.
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On top of that, all the content is cross-referenced so it makes the exploring of music great fun.
The set-top box, which allows users to stream content from iTunes to their TVs has been a slow seller for Apple.
The top-performing online product categories were digital content and subscriptions, event tickets, jewelry and watches, consumer electronics (excl. computer peripherals) and computer software.
The sets are apparently targeting consumers who use their TV primarily for gaming or multimedia activities, or to customers who prefer to use a set-top-box to receive digital and HD content.
Rovi Entertainment Store, which is helping a range of retailers, service providers, CE manufacturers, content owners, and PC OEMs to drive revenue from over-the-top (OTT) storefronts and cloud-based entertainment, has adopted DivX Plus Streaming as its preferred method of content delivery.
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With the inclusion of access to Comcast's On Demand service, TiVo subscribers will be able to enjoy more content spanning linear television, video-on-demand and over-the-top unlike any other commercially available experience.
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Even so, device makers are hard at work striking content deals to help them insert themselves--in the form of yet another set-top box--into your living room.
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