Wii U has to make the case to turn to it rather than a set-top box connected TV, competing games console - Xbox's extensive range of TV partners makes it a formidable competitor in this respect - and even a tablet or smartphone.
The Linksys Powerline AV 4-Port Network Adapter Kit (PLSK400). (Includes one 1-port powerline adapter and a 4-port powerline adapter) This kit is ideal for the home media room where users can connect a TV, game console, media server and networked DVD player.
But now, NeuroSky (a fab(u)less startup of US chip designers and Russian neuroscientists chillin' in NorCal) claims a "breakthrough" in non-invasive neural sensors allowing low-cost, dry (no contact gels) neural mapping solutions to be applied to those things you'd most like to mind control (spouse, voters, TV, game console, cellphone).
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Playcast Media is an on demand gaming service delivered via your TV without a games console.
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Dale describes how, inside, he had use of his own TV and a games console.
Ultimately they could be your gaming console, TV and web device.
The Vybe works with any sound source such as a gaming console, TV, computer, or mobile phone using a standard audio cable (included in the box).
One feature that does sound interesting is the ability to combine split-screen play (with two players sharing a sofa, console and TV screen) with online play.
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The microconsole plugs into a TV, like a games console, but almost no computation is being done at the client side.
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Game play from an NVIDIA GRID server feels like that from a console next to a TV.
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So if you are a person who put up with looking at someone else's Xbox console stored under the TV for years, you're finally getting something out of the deal.
Set up an activity for "Play Xbox, " for example, and in one touch it'll turn on your console, switch your TV to the correct source, select the right channel on your amp, and so on.
According to recent report from Knowledge Networks, 21% of consumers in the U.S., age 13 to 54, watch TV and movies on a videogame console at least once a month (including DVDs, Blu-ray discs and via Internet connection).
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Gamers without a computer or connected TV can use an OnLive "micro console" to access the system.
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.
Sitting at a tabletop console, Paik could produce abstract TV for broadcast.
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The bigger news here is how the iOS and Android devices are killing traditional handhelds and may soon start making inroads into the console market as well ( Apple TV, anyone?).
These elements, made possible by the availability of open operating platforms such as Android, have created a perfect storm that is now spilling over into TV, challenging the dominance of the traditional console business.
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The Aire Pro also offers Dual HDMI, making it easy to connect the monitor directly to your Blu-Ray Player or gaming console to watch your favorite movies and TV shows and play video games.
The program streams online video from your PC to your console so that it can be displayed on TV.
The ability to connect the phone to your HD TV also helps to narrow the bridge between mobile and console gaming.
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It's a full-featured Android tablet, a full-featured gaming console with a controller when docked on the TV and it's a smart TV device.
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Each game in the Wii U Virtual Console library has been developed to include off-TV play on the Wii U GamePad controller, customizable controls, Miiverse community support and the ability to instantly save game progress.
On TV, Xbox Music is streaming only and requires an Xbox 360 console and additional subscriptions (each sold separately).
Now anyone can play console-quality PC games on Android-powered connected TV devices.
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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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Marvell's powerful HD media system-on-chip platform offers quick application launching, award-winning video performance and high-resolution graphics-all within the Android TV itself and at affordable costs, without the burden of an expensive gaming console.
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With it, the console's touch-screen GamePad controller becomes a remote control for your TV and set-top box.
Valve, best known for the Half-Life, Left4Dead and the Steam online game store has long been known to be working on a console or set-top box that puts PC-based titles onto a TV.
Together, the Arena app and Atlas controller turn a Kindle Fire HD into a gaming console so you can enjoy mobile games from the couch on a big screen TV without making an investment in new hardware.
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