All Google TV boxes already have it, while Sony, Samsung and LG are reportedly very interested.
Other Web TV boxes coming to the market have added far more features.
Any Android 2.2 or later device (including Google TV boxes) can come along for the ride, and views will count towards producers getting paid.
So the first Apple TV boxes couldn't tap the millions of new YouTube clips posted each month--in contrast, Apple's new iPhone made YouTube a special opening-screen feature.
These new Windows TV boxes have been glimpsed online since Microsoft unveiled its new embedded software lineup in April, and then again at an Intel conference in September.
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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We posses yards of coax for TV boxes, s-video cables for higher definition TV, multi-colored component cords for highest definition TV and HDMI cables for ultra high definition video and audio, all in one.
The radio stations are a black urban music network, two stations based largely on the BBC archives (one music, one speech), the Asian Network, which currently broadcasts locally and via satellite TV boxes, and Five Live Sports Extra, bringing greater choice of sports, when matches clash.
Unauthorized cable TV decoder boxes are a good example, he added.
The Samsung GALAXY S4 even allows you to remotely control the TV or setup boxes.
The announcement parallels a move Apple made in 2010 from Intel processors to its own ARM-based A4 smartphone processor for its line of Apple TV set top boxes.
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Dragon TV is Nuance's voice and language understanding platform for set-top boxes and connected TV devices.
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The software will be used in non-PC devices like TV set-top boxes, digital cameras and DVD players.
The problem is the other half, Motorola Mobility, a maker of mobile phones and TV set-top boxes.
Chambers insisted the overall video business was "gaining momentum, " yet sales of Cisco's TV set-top boxes were off 29% from a year before.
The company is also in over 30% of digital TV and set top boxes and an increasing presence in automotive and data storage.
Hence, MII will certainly lobby China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom (the three Chinese mobile carriers) to push handset suppliers like Lenovo and Huawei (plus other OEMs for new tablets, auto apps, TV set-top boxes) to adopt new Chinese mobile platforms.
This change will not affect the ability of any TV to work with cable boxes, satellite boxes, DVDs, VCRs or game consoles.
Angry Birds maker Rovio plans to release its first animated series later this week across mobile devices, TV channels and streaming media boxes.
With nearly 23 million U.S. subscribers, plans to expand internationally, and deals with all the major TV manufacturers and set top boxes to embed Netflix in the digital dashboards of internet enabled devices, Netflix appeared unstoppable.
Set-top boxes allow cable-TV subscribers to surf the Internet from their sofas.
Bill Gates has a long history of making investments in cable companies with the hopes that it will secure Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) software a significant role in the technology used for high-speed Internet access and for cable set-top boxes that deliver interactive TV.
Customers can watch live TV on Apple iOS devices, Roku boxes, and soon Android-powered devices.
It will connect to SonicBlue's ReplayTV set-top boxes, which can record TV programming to a hard drive.
This past year, device makers shipped 6 million boxes designed to fuse the TV and Internet experience, according to a November 2007 study by IMS Research.
Over the past two years, the company has made a "spin down" feature for hard-disk boxes, where if the TV has not been in use for several hours the disk rests.
This is further corroborated by an exec with a "top US MSO" who confirmed specifically that talks are underway with Google on how the TV platform could be integrated with cable boxes.
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They are closing our online pop-up boxes, changing channels on our TV ads, skimming our print ads.
Products now include set-top boxes, home networking, mobile TV and a huge portfolio of technical patents -- the company controls licensing of the MP3 codec, for instance.
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The TX-NR807 also includes Onkyo's new Bi-Directional Preprogrammed RI Remote Control which will impress anyone who has ever been frustrated by the trial-and-error manual data inputs and paper listings usually needed to program associated TV's, disc players, cable boxes, and other components.
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