Gabe Gagliano predicts a March reboot of the Apple TV box-top set.
Combined with iOS software and Siri, the potential interface for a TV or improved Apple TV box could be groundbreaking.
My colleagues in the TV box saw it differently - and I thought the use of technology was supposed to remove controversy!
The device will let consumers take TV shows recorded to their PC, Tivo or Replay TV box on the go with them.
Yesterday, Samsung announced the HomeSync Android TV box, and as expected that device is making an appearance here on the MWC 2013 show floor.
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With Remote, it is possible to watch a video on an Android phone, stop it midway through, and transfer the video, stopped at that point, to a Google TV box.
None of this tells us about the other intriguing question, when Apple will bring out its next major overhaul of the Apple TV box (or better.) That answer does not seem to yet be in the chips.
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For hardware, Google has its own dedicated Network Box with a four-port gigabit Ethernet router and 802.11n WiFi, a TV Box with live viewing and a WiFi access point as well as a Storage Box DVR with 2TB of data and the ability to record eight shows at once.
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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.
Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).
The next step would be for Forstall to push iOS onto the next generation Apple TV set top box.
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Intel is not only producing a TV set top box, it plans to provide streaming content over the internet.
He also predicted Apple will add movie rentals to its iTunes service and update its Apple TV set top box offering.
Margolis was referring to the design of the new Apple TV set top box that was released alongside the new iPad earlier this month.
Despite a number of demos through the years, the Intel-powered TV boxes that have landed in our living rooms so far have been the first gen Google TV and Boxee Box units.
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This, in the end, may be the reason Google is letting go (and could also signal that Cisco will soon sell its own TV set top box unit) as Asian competitors may be turning set top boxes into commodities.
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What might be more unsettling to exhibit visitors is how nostalgic they might feel for the accoutrements that dot the recreated Westwood-McLaren's Kings Road shop, Clothes for Heroes, in London, including a heavy-handset telephone, cassette tape and big-box TV set.
Rather than focusing on geeky products for techies -- such as the Xserver and Mac Pro -- Del Prete says he's betting Steve Jobs will show off consumer-friendly products such as a freshened iPhone and a new version of the Apple TV set top box next week.
In April, the company expanded its product line by adding Xiaomi TV, a set-top box similar to Apple TV.
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The next big thing around the corner is the new Boxee Box with live tv and DVR capacity built in, and the new Tivo box (XL4) and the Tivo Stream add on.
Boxee TV is a set top box with a built in antennae to capture over-the-air TV signals as well as the ability to stream video from the internet such as from Netflix and YouTube, which is owned by Google.
"That would have been too easy, with three meals a day, TV and X-Box, " she said.
TV's clever box thrills gadget freaks, most consumers are interested in entertainment, not technology.
Consumers will need a digital TV or a converter box to get that signal.
Also, how much is it goin' to cost subscribers to equip each TV with a digital box?
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By the end of the first quarter, Apple is expected to release the next iteration of its Apple TV set-top box.
That process is already possible through its Apple TV set-top box, but it is cumbersome and some media companies, such as Time Warner Inc.
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