Via Fierce
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has, for months, been beating his drum that Apple is looking hard at building an Apple branded television. He's got company as Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty Friday sent a note to investors that said "checks in Asia suggest Apple is working on a Smart TV prototype."
She didn't supply much more detail, but posited the company was looking to follow its strategy with another successful device, the iPad, by wrapping up "TV/Video content, gami...
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Via Les Echos - Gregoire Poussielgue
TF1 et M6 ont fortement décroché en Bourse vendredi dernier, après l'annonce par Canal+ du lancement de sa chaîne bonus en gratuit. Pour autant, la chaîne n'est pas encore une réalité, les écueils restant nombreux.
Canal + n‘est pas encore certain de pouvoir lancer sa chaîne de télévision généraliste gratuite sur la TNT. Annoncé en fin de semaine dernière, ce projet suscite à la fois l'hostilité de ses concurrents et de vive...
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Via AfterDawn
The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the MeeGo Smart TV Working Group.
MeeGo is an open source project targeting several segments of the market including netbooks, smartphones, tablets, TVs and more. The new Working Group is designed to drive the evolution of MeeGo within the television ecosystem and provide an open framework for industry creativity and innovation.
The Working Group features some heavyweight participants already, including Amino Commu...
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Via Stuff.tv
If you were planning on enjoying 3D without the pesky glasses anytime soon, then try not to let Samsung’s realism (pessimism?) put you off.
The Korean giant reckons decent glasses-free sets will be unlikely to become a possibility in the next 10 years, even though rival Toshiba is planning to unleash them this year.
The company says five years of research is needed to sort out the viewing angle problems associated with such screens. We'd probably take the compromise in...
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Source : Hands on with Samsung's Smart TV - samsung, IPTV - PC World Australia.
At a recent event in Singapore we got the chance to test the Samsung Smart TV service that's going to be a major part of Samsung's 2011 plasma and LED TV line-up. It's an evolution of last year's Internet@TV Web feature-set, and there are some nifty new features that we'll be seeing on Australian Samsung TVs.
Smart TV is Samsung's name for its range of applications that can be downloaded and run on its LED and pl...
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Via DigitalTVEurope
French commercial broadcaster M6 is ready to launch two new free-to-air channels by the end of this year, according to CEO Nicolas de Tavernost.
One of the channels is likely to be a generalist female-skewing service, while the other will focus on cinema, drama and magazine shows aimed at a family audience. De Tavernost’s comments in an interview with Les Echos newspaper follow Canal Plus CEO Bertrand Méheut’s announcement last week that the pay TV operator...
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