Already integrated into tablets, smartphones and online, the Connected TV app fully completes the portfolio.
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Slingbox Companion, Sling Media's 2nd screen social TV app for iPad, will be available for Slingbox 500 customers initially.
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He is now talking about a new TV app called TV SideView for navigating through content from your smartphone or tablet.
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This allows content developers to choose one of four speed settings, which helps them evaluate the performance level of the TV app.
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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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Others, like the Yap.tv app for the Apple iPad, aim to let another device provide a social experience that can supplement live TV viewing.
For example, there's a Samsung TV app that lets you draw on a Galaxy S phone and see your artwork on 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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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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By offering its flagship network on mobile devices through its own app instead of the live TV app recently launched by Time Warner Cable, ESPN could establish a more direct link to consumers.
Lee has helmed a number of highly successful projects across the Microsoft Studios EMEA network, including Kinect Sports (Seasons 1 and 2), creation of Xbox360 Avatars, Fable: The Journey and the Sky TV app.
While the Xfinity TV app on the platform has handled streaming duties since 2010, the dedicated player has a different menu and even player interface, and we wouldn't be surprised to see the feature excised from the general app eventually.
Today, Comcast's Xfinity TV offers the most live sports and more than 75, 000 TV shows and movies that are available anytime on Xfinity On Demand, XfinityTV.com and through the Xfinity TV app, as well as a suite of tools and features to personalize and manage viewing across screens.
Specifically referring to the Comcast 250GB limit that has recently come under fire from Netflix and others now that its Xfinity TV app on Xbox 360 skirts the cap entirely, Aragon noted cable companies have the pipe and the bandwidth and can restrict competing services.
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It seemed that HBO simply viewed this as a lower priority now that AirPlay is a reality, and it may go a long way to explaining why so many other video apps are opting for AirPlay inclusion rather than focusing efforts on a dedicated Apple TV app.
NeoTV PRIME with Google TV offers PrimeTime, an app that helps you find and watch your favorite movies and TV shows all in one place, whether they are on live TV, an app, or the web.
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But if they also had the dedicated 'Lancia INTERACT TV' app on their smartphone an inaudible soundtrack from the TV would activate the device offering promotions related to the car.
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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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Time Warner Cable is offering a live TV streaming app and Dish Network acquired Blockbuster to enter the streaming arena.
Watch news, sports, soap operas and more with the TV Azteca app.
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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.
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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It is expected to release an AppleTV SDK for developers at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) (most likely in early June) for a new TV oriented App Store.
One other change taking place at the same time is a new Xfinity TV Player app for iOS that is focused solely on streaming VOD, mirroring a similar app already out on Android.
Looks like Nintendo didn't want to wait for its proper E3 press conference to spill some Wii U details early -- it just used its preview event to show the finished version of the Wii U controller, called the Gamepad, as well as a TV remote app.
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Mr. Sneeden mentioned the TV SideView app, an electronic programming guide with voice activation that's available from the Play Store and takes advantage of the Tablet Z's built-in IR blaster -- he also pointed out that Sony's Music Unlimited and Walkman Player apps will be fully integrated by summer.
To access the Amazon Instant Video app on a Samsung 2012 TV, customers need to only download the app to Samsung Smart TV and register.
And tonight the TV-discovery app Peel will offer something a little different to Samsung Galaxy Tab users.
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