With UltraViolet, consumers have greater flexibility and can watch or store purchased content on their terms whether it is on a mobile device, computer, television, game console, or storage device.
ENGADGET: Seagate now a DECE member, supporting UltraViolet HD
Rather than futzing with several remote controls to turn on your television and game console, the Wii U's built-in universal remote functionality -- which functions whether or not the Wii U itself is powered on -- streamlines everything down to just the game controller.
They stole a television, an Xbox console, ornaments, a train set and a toilet seat.
Now, of course, your phone (or tablet) is your all-purpose electronics gadget, game console, camera and television all in one.
The launcher we saw at CES 2012 is still there too, giving the docking station a pseudo-console interface befitting of your television (and Steam Big Picture Mode, of course).
Diamond provides a 3-in-1 remote that features a keyboard, mouse and motion control, allowing you to use your television like a computer device or a game console.
However, if the original Wii set a bar for intuitive control of a wide range of video games, TVii takes once TV-shy Nintendo and puts it in the driver's seat when it comes to defining a console's second-screen approach to television viewing and interaction.
Nintendo's Wii U tablet controller thankfully streamlines that process in a small, but tremendously meaningful way: during initial console setup, you're prompted to sync your television and the tablet controller, allowing the tablet itself to control the TV's power, volume, channels, and input directly.
ENGADGET: Nintendo's Wii U tablet controller and the death of your TV's remote control
There were 40 million television sets in the U.S. alone when I invented the first videogame console in 1966.
December 12, 2012--San Diego, CA-PacketVideo today announced that the company's Twonky Beam product, a free app that lets users discover and transfer online video content from a tablet or mobile device to a television with the touch of a button, now works with the Xbox 360 game console and Roku streaming players.
ENGADGET: Twonky Beam update for Android, iOS streams to Roku, Xbox 360
While we've already learned that television shows pull double duty as entertainment and a sedative, and that launching a console with a widely understood shortage hitting stores can cause all sorts of madness and criminal activity to break loose, the last thing we needed was one more " study" claiming that video games breed rage.
The typical American couch spud already has a number of "boxes" attached to his television set: A VCR, a cable-TV decoder box and perhaps a videogame console like a Sony PlayStation.
"Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television, " Hammer said, directly refuting the 2012 statistic that 49 percent of US households own a gaming console.
It's calling the event CREATE, and in addition to drumming up interest for Kickstarter's favorite game console, it aims to celebrate how OUYA and a new generation of indie game developers are making the television an open gaming platform.
ENGADGET: OUYA and Kill Screen announce CREATE Game Jam, bait developers with $45,000 in prizes
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