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Jun 15th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
Your living room television is the next new platform for developers.
And, while Apple is squandering its Apple TV lead by treating Internet television as a “hobby”, Boxee is opening the platform up to developers, offering an API and kicking off a developer challenge.
Boxee’s move is resulting in an explosion of content on the platform, including:
I [...]
Tags: Apple TV, Boxee, Internet television, new media trends, the future of television
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May 28th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
Worldwide shipments of devices that support Internet video consumption will nearly quintuple by 2013, according to electronics industry analysts iSuppli, spurred by an increase in consumers’ broadband Internet access.
Four years hence, an estimated 376.5 million “entertainment-oriented consumer electronics platforms” with Internet video-watching capabilities will ship, up from 80.5 million such devices shipped in 2008. These [...]
Tags: Internet television, Internet TV, Internet video, television, the future of Internet video, the future of television, Video
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Apr 20th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
At the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters Show, Adobe Systems announced today a version of Flash optimized for HD video and rich applications on Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and home media players.
Launch partners include Atlantic Records, Broadcom, Comcast, Disney Interactive Media Group, Intel, Netflix, and The New York Times Company. The Adobe Flash [...]
Tags: adobe, Adobe Flash, Internet television, Internet TV, the future of television
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Mar 6th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
Boxee has released an update that brings back Hulu support, but in limited way, and has added an app store, something we’ve been calling on Apple to do with it’s Apple TV for a long time.
Boxee is an open source “social media center”, designed to be a platform for Internet television.
Here are the details of [...]
Tags: Apple TV, Boxee, Internet television, the future of television
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Mar 4th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
Tech industry and consumer research firm Parks Associates have published a new report that explains that on-demand video libraries and custom widgets will drive adoption of “connected television experiences” — that is, Internet TV.
The research firm’s new white paper, “From Boob Tube to YouTube: Consumers and TV“, points to strong interest among U.S. broadband [...]
Tags: broadband, Internet television, Internet TV, Parks Associates, research trends, set top box, the future of Internet video, the future of television, trends, Video, widget
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Mar 4th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Digital measurement service comScore today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 14.8 billion online videos during that month. These figures represent an increase of 4 percent over December 2008. YouTube led the growth charge, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental January-versus-December gain in the [...]
Tags: comScore, Fox, Google, Hulu, Internet television, Internet TV, Megavideo, MySpace, trends, Video, YouTube
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Feb 9th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Todd Mundt, longtime public radio guy (and a favorite former Iowan) who writes as The Mediavore, is featured today in a CNN Money article about Americans’ changing media consumption habits.
Mundt’s changing media consumption habits are reflective of similar changes taking place throughout many U.S. households. Many families are economizing on entertainment costs, as they eliminate [...]
Tags: Amazon Video On Demand, Apple TV, DVDs, Google, Hulu, Internet television, Internet video, movies, Roku, Streaming Video, the future of Internet video, the future of television, trends, video trends, Yahoo Video, YouTube
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Feb 5th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Video
Apple Insider says that investment bank Piper Jaffray expects Apple to introduce networked tv, along with an Apple TV set-top DVR box later this year.
Apple has consistently denied interest in such markets, however.
“We expect Apple to design a connected television over the next two years (launching in 2011) with DVR functionality built in,”Piper Jaffray analyst [...]
Tags: Apple TV, AppleTV, DVR, Internet television, Internet TV, Internet video, Piper Jaffray, set top box, the future of Internet video, the future of television, the future of video
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Jan 5th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Video
Adobe Systems and Intel Corporation today announced plans to port Adobe Flash technology for the Intel Media Processor CE 3100, in order to provide Flash-based Internet video viewing through Intel-based cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail connected AV devices. Intel and Adobe are working together to optimize both the Adobe Flash Player [...]
Tags: adobe, flash, Intel, Internet television, the future of television
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Jan 5th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Commentary, General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer reports that Netflix is working with manufacturers to get Netflix streaming built into your next TV:
Beginning this spring, Korean electronics giant LG will build Netflix streaming directly into some of its plasma and LCD HDTVs, the companies will announce today.
This means that Netflix subscribers will be able to stream more than [...]
Tags: Apple TV, hdtv, Internet television, LG, Netflix, the future of television, trends
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