Archive for the ‘IPTV’ Category
Via Engadget
New study reveals differences in visual experience between active and passive glasses for 3DTV's
TCO Development, the company behind the usability and eco label for ICT products, has released the results of a study to compare the visual experience of active shutter eye-glasses or passive FPR (film pattern retarder) eye-glasses technology for viewing 3DTV. The study confirms that the two techniques differ in visual performance characteristics that affect the overall 3D e...
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Via ProductReviews
Samsung Smart TV Apps is not even a year old yet, and already the company is expanding the payment options for its customers when they download them. This is also the case with the mobile apps as well. Now with this new way of paying, you will be able to pay for your apps in just two clicks, and will be charged to your cell phone.
You can still choose to pay for these apps using your credit card etc, but some customers will like this newest payment option, as it will be...
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Via ChanelNews
TV vendors have given up selling 3D TVs alone, instead they are moving to sell low cost integrated TVs that have Smart TV and 3D capability combined, a leading research company has claimed.
"In a major recalibration effort, TV brands are changing strategies this year following lukewarm response to 3D in 2010 when consumers balked at the high price of sets and the lack of 3D content," said Riddhi Patel, director for television systems and retail services at IHS iSupp...
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Via TVGenius
Facebook wants to be the primary gateway to social TV. The problem is, so does Twitter.
While Facebook dominates some industry conversation, they are only starting to make inroads into social TV.
So how is Facebook is poised to enter the social TV space?
Facebook users tend to have highly detailed profiles, which already list their favourite TV shows and movies. At the same time they also connect their personal profile to their favourite brands and celebrities. This gives...
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Via HeraldSun
FOOTY fans may soon be able to follow their favourite players in interactive TV broadcasts.
Telstra promises the innovations - if it wins the right to broadcast a handful of live AFL games - that will include being able to call up replays of the last three goals, statistics of individual stars and pop-up alerts on developments at other games.
The telco, restricted to a 12-hour delay before streaming games on its internet TV service, is believed to be close to winning rig...
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Via Vision2Mobile
Google TV may be blocked by the major networks, but has inked a deal with at least one big name: CNN – and found a way to potentially partner with cable.
The two announced at the South by Southwest music and media festival that they are planning a new TV Everywhere service that will take the news network’s existing online and mobile strategy (which includes a live TV iPad app), and add in live video feeds that automatically sync between their Google TV, computer a...
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Via BroadBandNews,
Extended connected TV functionality is at the heart of the new D-Book 7, which has just been published by the Digital Television Group (DTG).
The new edition is the result of 18 months collaboration between manufacturers, service providers and technology companies. It includes a baseline specification specification for Connected TV products and services that Sky, Virgin Media, YouView and others can build on for trademark requirements to support their services. The...
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Via BroadBandNews
Non-linear advertising specialist justAd TV has announced the launch of a multi-device TV advertising platform. The new software development kit (SDK) is compatible with a number of devices including connected TVs and set-top boxes.
The system takes advantage of the justAd TV technology that enables advertisements to be displayed as the viewer presses triggers such as pause, fast forward and stop. The new version is already compatible with Samsung TVs and the App...
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Via AppMarket
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, announced its partnership with Vestel to create a versatile IP-enabled range of connected TVs ready for premium service delivery.Vestel previously partnered up with Yahoo! and Access to enhance their positioning.
TelecomPaper on the deal:
Vestel's range of MB36 IP enabled TV's are available for deployment with embedded Verimatrix ViewRight client security supp...
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Via sfgate
A Sunnyvale startup has launched a new - and possibly controversial - way to watch top just-released DVDs like "The Social Network" and "The Fighter" over the Internet for as little as $1 each.
The company, Zediva Inc., buys DVDs when they are first released to the home movie market, pops them into a bank of rack-mounted, Web-connected DVD players in Santa Clara and streams the video on demand online.
And unlike other streaming services from Netflix Inc. and others, Ze...
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