Consumer behavior and TV set maker strategies are resulting in widely diverging TV product ranges across the world.
Since launching its WD TV product family in 2008, WD has sold more than 2.5 million WD TV media players.
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Google may be looking into enhancing its new Google TV product, a web-meets-TV service, or build out its own video-on-demand service.
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"LG is leading the market with next-generation digital TV innovations that dramatically enhance the consumer's viewing experience, " said Sangyeob Lee, LG Electronics Senior Director, TV Product Planning.
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Much of the speculation about the delayed introduction of a next generation Apple TV product has focused on the inertia of the cable companies and other content providers.
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In addition to offering Xbox 360 support, the service is open to iOS and Android users, along with those who own a Vizio, LG, Samsung or Google TV product.
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Of those, Apple seems like the best fit, if for no other reason than the company has apparently spent the better part of the past several years dancing around launching a serious TV product and Netflix would be a fine centerpiece for it.
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Twitter already has a partnership with Nielsen to build a social TV measurement product called the Nielsen Twitter TV Rating.
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Los Angeles, CA--August 21, 2012--Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of Radeon Gaming graphics cards, Best Seller of the VC500 USB capture device for PC and Mac and other popular Multimedia products, introduced today a new offering in its TV connectivity product line, the AMP1000, Android Media Player.
For the first quarter, however, panel demand is expected to be adversely affected by off-peak seasonality before recovering in March with new TV and tablet product launches by manufactures.
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John Ceriale, a consultant to Blackstone Real Estate Partners, has asked NTM to find marketers that want to direct TV ads and product samples to people who check into Blackstone's 670-unit Extended Stay Hotels.
We're honestly not so sure, though: Apple always tells investors that it's confident in how its products are priced but responsive to market changes, and it's not like a smaller price cut boosted the Apple TV into hit product territory.
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"Every day more people use our product than watch TV, " he says.
We got to speak with Google TV's VP of Product Management Mario Queiroz today, and he shared a couple of tasty tidbits with us.
Instead of advertising, many Chinese production companies have shown a strong preference for product placement in TV programs, movies and online videos.
Reaction to our first generation of standalone Mobile DTV receivers has been very positive, and we look forward to more widespread and more advanced services made possible by the addition of this Mobile TV Tablet to the RCA product portfolio.
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Product placement is a common thing for TV shows these days, but count on Steve Jobs to get an Apple product into a show before the device is even launched, and for the episode to practically be built around said device.
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The product was originally called TV Discovery, but just five days later it's resurfaced under the moniker Video Discovery.
Seven years on, he's back with a film exposing the practice of aggressive product placement in US TV shows and movies.
Despite our current skepticism in the near term regarding a pending product launch, the TV market poses a significant market opportunity for Apple.
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With name recognition built on 50 years of TV Guide magazine and a clever product for next-generation televisions, Gemstar isn't going to disappear.
Bloomberg analyst Anand Srinivasan has compared the watch market to the TV market, the other likely product category that Apple could launch into next.
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Rapidly expanding product offerings and 3D TV set prices have led DisplaySearch to increase its forecast for 3D in later years, with an anticipated 90 million sets being shipped in 2014.
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In this email interview, Queiroz discusses how Google is working to improve the product, how the TV space has changed the past two years and the variety of angles that Google is using to find its market.
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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 new product's centerpiece is TV Guide's Watchlist, its groundbreaking platform featuring dozens of innovations based on user research and feedback.
One reason is that the NHL doesn't seem to be able to market its product effectively with its current TV deal.
In fact, the case could easily be made overall consumption increased in the TV market because falling prices made the product available to a larger base of consumers.
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