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Dual Play Plus bringt die Funktionalität des Internets auf das TV-Gerät: Über eine Set Top Box werden Inhalte, die bisher dem Computer vorbehalten waren, über das Fernsehen zugänglich gemacht. Das normale Programm wird um interaktive Formate, Sparten
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This just in ... EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) is acquiring Sling Media in a cash-and-options transaction valued at approximately $380 million. The deal announced late Monday evening, is subject to the usual closing conditions; it is expected to close in the four
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hat said, there are a number of products out there that may be able to give you what you want, in some cases without having to pay the $299 it takes to have an Apple TV. You decide. D-Link 1. The D-Link Media Lounge streams music, videos and photos to an
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Six months later iTV is a flat-out iFlop. Renamed Apple TV upon launch, the ballyhooed box has sold perhaps 250,000 units--far behind the 1 million sold for the iPhone, which was priced twice as high and has been on the market less than half as long. Appl
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MooWee is an application that lets you watch Internet TV content on your television screen using your Nintento Wii game console.
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Prices for one-time rentals range from $0.99 - $3.99, and prices for purchased movies range from $4.99 - $19.99, depending on the age of the movie. The service has about 5,000 movies—compared with 1,500 movies on the Time Warner Cable “Movies on Deman
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Building B is building an entertainment platform and service that incorporates the unique strengths of wireless broadcast technology and the internet to deliver a personalized, broadband video experience. The service consists of a turn-key home video ente
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oftware Development Kit (SDK) for consumer electronics devices. The goal of BitTorrent’s Software Licensing and related Device Certification Program is to ensure a superior entertainment experience for users of a growing array of CE
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TiVo has figured out a way for you to share your home videos and photos directly with other TiVo users, sending that content directly from the Web to someone's TiVo. Teaming up with video and photo sharing site One True Media, the company is offering this
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Cablevision has found some friends in the network DVR case which it lost earlier this year in court: Several trade bodies and lobby groups, including USTelecom, which represents AT&T and Verizon, the Consumer Electronics Association, CTIA, and the Electro
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Software on your computer converts the display data to a DivX video stream, which is decoded by DivX’ hardware on the device side, meaning there’s no need for additional processing or storage. It also means that anything from interactive menus to vid
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Beginning July 1, the Federal Communications Commission has ordered cable companies to supply only set-top boxes that can accept a so-called cablecard that slides into the set-top box and determines a customer's level of access to cable service. The chang
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I believe, as many do in the media community, that eventually there will be one conduit, one pipe, physical or ethereal, that will direct the passage of video, audio and data services and content into the home. The question I ask is: Do consumers really n
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Akimbo is discontinuing its hardware product line, and instead will focus on selling content services. Starting tomorrow, Akimbo is no longer going to sell the box, and will offer discounts and refunds to some of the existing box owners.
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The service will launch with thousands of movies from seven major studios as well as indie distributors, connects directly to your TV and does not require a PC or a cable box. The company, Vudu, Inc., has been quietly engineering the technology and striki
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VUDU is a revolutionary new product that will transform the way you get and watch movies. VUDU is instantaneous—no more driving to the video store, no more relying on the mail, no more waiting for downloads. VUDU is thousands of movies delivered directl
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In English, that means that the cable and satellite companies could take the uploaded videos and push them out to all DVRs of anyone who has subscribed receive those videos in a single stream. internet video requires 1 stream per person per video.The use
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erinMedia contends they have come up with a better way to measure audiences than the one used by Nielsen Media Research. According to erinMedia, they can measure every second of television watching and their technology works with any set-top box out there
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And then Denon did one really nice thing, they also put an HTTP interface in there. I haven't tried it yet, that's my next project. Hopefully I'll have some screen shots soon. In the meantime, thanks to Mark Cuban for pushing my mind in a new direction.
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But Apple still can’t come close to the comparatively infinite offerings of cable and satellite, at least not right now, counsels John Guillaume, SVP of Product and Marketing at New Global Telecom, a provider of VoIP technologies to cable and telecom co
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First, this may be part of the Internet but it is not part of the web, because: It is not open: the various systems' owners can decide what is available and promoted, and what is not. Technically and in terms of user experience, websites don't work on T
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Wii interface for sevenload
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So here's a rundown of the necessarily incomplete list of Internet Video Devices with some brief analysis for each. This is random and not parallel, but hey, I thought you'd like to see the results of a few days research.
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The Incumbents: cable and satellite firms try to get hip. They are the favorites in this battle to bring Internet-style choice to the TV. Not because companies like Comcast are great innovators (they’re not), but because their boxes already sit in milli
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There’s a secret many people in the IPTV/VoD industry don’t want you to know. Setting up an IPTV network is actually incredibly easy. In fact, almost anyone can do it. But if you knew that, you’d build your own and no-one would make any money by sel
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NeuLion iPTV delivers high quality video to your home or business using your existing high-speed Internet connection. Our Set Top Box connects the Internet to your TV, delivering high-quality content that you can watch on your TV, j
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BoingBoing has heard1: the Apple TV does not include HDCP2 (High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection), the copy protection hardware paired with digital video and audio inputs and outputs in an attempt to thwart the unauthorized duplication of high definitio
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Among the announcements is that AT&T has teamed up with Akimbo to offer the Akimbo Video on Demand service to AT&T Homezone subscribers. While this is not the biggest news from the CES today it is worth mentioning as this news will be otherwise overshadow
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Sony Bravia Internet Video Link Box4: Only works with new Bravia displays, isn’t wireless, and will be tied to Sony’s content offerings. Next! NetGear Digital Entertainer HD5: Fashionably styled like an Apple product. But no internal storage and a
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Starz has partnered with Microsoft in a deal that will bring its Internet movie service Vongo to both PCs with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system and the Xbox 360 game console, the companies announced Monday at CES.
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Sony just announced a set top box that can downloadstream HD video and audio over the internet for use on your TV. Free! Free? Of course, any system like this is only as good as its content—Sony's is coming from AOL, Yahoo! and Grouper, as well as Sony
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So Microsoft, having failed in the past to gain much traction in the set-top box business, is using the Xbox to try again. But instead of trying to sell it to the entrenched cable companies, it will pitch the Xbox set-top box to new entrants into the TV
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that through SlingCatcher, users will be able to bring their TV picture to other TVs within the house and bring online video content to the TV. No specific content deals are being announced yet, though conceptually online movie rental and download service
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On the one hand, it has an onerous HDMI port. On the other, it’s got a partnership with BitTorrent, which has a history of making friends with consumer electronics hardware manufacturers1.
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1. Devices to connect the TV to the Internet. This is what everybody's trying to do at CES and MacWorld. But it's not enough, even when those devices get going, you also need to solve . . . 2. Better home bandwidth. Right now you can't stream HDTV over h
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Wii Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Nintendo Wii. It runs on most major operating systems in
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My initial impressions of Akimbo are - from a usability stand point, it gets full marks, but its user interface is well… like Kate Moss without makeup. The picture is not as crisp I would have liked it to be, but you can barely tell the difference betwe
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# Empfang- und abrufbares Diensteangebot (Zukunftssicherheit) # Technische Anforderungen # Serviceleistungen rund um die Box # Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis # Emotionale Anforderungen. Dabei sehe ich beispielsweise die Syndizierung von Inhalten mittels RSS
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Through its deal with Movielink, internet VOD service Akimbo can now offer movies on demand from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Movielink’s VOD service has been configured for the RCA Akimbo Player wi
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Sling Media is selling three new models of its groundbreaking Slingbox product in the United States, aiming at a mainstream market as well as more demanding consumers. The range includes support for widescreen and even a high-definition component connecti
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If Apple manages to disaggregate the content from a channel offering, the value of individual channels could eventually drop. Apple hat eine geschlossen Strategie und will ein Ökosystem rund um die Box aufbauen. Insgesamt wird das PPV und die Telcos und
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the ad-supported and pay market for Internet TV is expected to reach a combined $16.2 billion by 2010. Es gibt nun ein Gerät, das den Network walled Garden (IPTV) un den Content-Walled Garden (Akimbo) umgeht.
