A leak late Friday has revealed that Time Warner Cable is planning to offer live TV on media hubs. The Engadget tip had Roku being the first of multiple devices that would stream IP-based TV. The Roku implementation wasn’t clarified, but would presumably go through a custom Roku channel. Other details, such as when it [...]
The Google TV development team has enhanced the YouTube app for users’ hardware. A new My YouTube tab organizes channels and videos of users. It also sports a new Recommendations feature that will help users watch more of what they like. Private playlists are featured as a grid of videos to allow users to quickly [...]
Intel’s smart TV efforts got a lift early in the week with a newly updated Atom chip for digital media hubs. The CE5300, nicknamed Berryville, is its first 32-nanometer chip of its kind. Details are short, although it should carry two cores, “advanced” graphics with H.264 B-frame hardware encoding, and support both Hyperthreading (for up [...]
Apple today officially announced a new Apple TV, capable of 1080P video playback. The user interface has been improved as well, and people will have the ability to stream movies they’ve already purchased on iTunes via iCloud. Previously, only TV shows could be streamed. Corresponding with the hardware upgrade, iTunes movies are now being offered [...]
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Popcorn Hour has released its latest home media streaming assistant, the C-300. The new model features a new color screen, support for a user-added Blu-Ray DVD player, room for full-sized as well as notebook-sized hard drives (which are easily swappable) and a revamped user interface. While considerably pricier than an Apple TV, the C-300 offers [...]
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TiVo, which just announced better-than-expected earnings (PDF) earlier today, has also announced a forthcoming model that offers “four-stream transcoding” and the ability to send those streams over the internet to up to four devices, both for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets for either pre-recorded material or live TV. The future product, modelled after last year’s [...]
When Roku said it would start shipping its media streaming boxes to the U.K. for the first time last month, there significant missing local media power -the BBC’s iPlayer. The iPlayer is responsible for nearly two billion viewings in 2011 alone in the UK. Well Roku is announcing that it’s launching an iPlayer channel for [...]
Google’s big Google TV news, or part of it, may have been detailed early in news on Sunday. The Android TV platform’s YouTube app is being updated with a much stronger emphasis on channels ahead of original content plans. Matching up is a new discover feature that lets viewers find content by the category rather [...]
Boxee Box has just released its 1.5 software update behind live TV function of its new tuner which was shown at CES. There are also some other functionalities the update enables. With the tuner add-on, this update, and the main Boxee Box hardware, users can access over-the-air TV broadcasts as well as Internet content. Apart [...]
Cisco has stopped sales of its Umi video conferencing system Umi that has been price-dropped and re-branded for business use, SAI learned. While an official announcement to this effect hasn’t been made by Cisco, a spokesperson confirmed to the source Cisco has stopped selling the system. When the system launched, it was expensive at $600 [...]
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