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If your gadget life centers equally on Apple devices and luxury Danish home theater, Bang & Olufsen now has you officially covered. The BeoPlay V1 TV, which we got a sneak peek at just over a week ago, has a slot to connect your Apple TV without wires spoiling the look of your upscale loft.
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Bang & Olufsen caters to the iOS crowd with Apple TV-friendly BeoPlay V1 TV set, A3 iPad speaker dock
Folks in Canada using Samsung‘s Smart lineup of home theater equipment have a new app to be excited about, thanks in part to Cineplex Entertainment . The two companies have teamed up for a video-on-demand app, dubbed Cineplex Store, which will allow owners of “select models of Samsung‘s Smart TVs, Blu-ray players and home theater systems” to purchase or rent videos from the comfort of their couches. Pricing is set from about three to five bucks for 48-hour unlimited play rentals (from the time you hit play within a 30-day period), while buying titles outright will cost ya between $10 and $20 — all without any pesky contracts
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Samsung Canada launches Cineplex Store app, offers paid movies on ‘select’ Smart devices
Despite the many advantages of digital broadcast television, the transition is separating Europeans from a reliable source of information known as teletext. Citizens of London are the latest to experience the loss, as analog signals in the region were switched off just yesterday. Ceefax, a service of the BBC , has provided millions of Britons with news, sports, weather, television listings, subtitles and games for the past 38 years, and is now accessible only in Kent, Sussex, north-east England and Northern Ireland.
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Londoners mourn as teletext goes dark, a victim of the DTV transition
If TVs only had a brain — oh wait, now they kind of do. LG’s Smart TV series has already begun to flood the market with its suite of apps , streaming video services, support for Flash and gaming all in tow, save for one promised service — Voice Control
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Voice Control for LG Smart TVs to roll out by end of April, Magic Remotes to require spit guards
It took almost exactly a year, but Philips is finally free of its pesky, money-losing TV problem.
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Philips transfers TV business to a joint venture with TPV Technology, TPV takes the controlling stake
It took almost exactly a year, but Philips is finally free of its pesky, money-losing TV problem. As planned , the company transferred its television business into a joint venture with Hong Kong-based TPV Technology called TP Vision — an arrangement that endows TPV with a controlling 70 percent stake. Though the sale was first detailed a year ago, Philips only announced today that the transaction had closed
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Philips officially out of the TV business as sale to TPV Technology closes
Anxiously awaiting the arrival of those brand spanking new apps for your Xbox 360 console? Well, the wait is over.
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Xbox 360 apps now live for Comcast Xfinity TV, HBO Go and MLB.tv
We’ve all heard about SlingBox , that nifty bit of kit that lets you stream your cable or satellite television to the mobile device of your choice, and now a new company called Aereo aims to provide a similar service for OTA broadcast television. The service costs $12 dollars a month and will launch March 14th, but is only available to folks in New York City through Aereo’s HTML5-powered website. It’ll stream all the major networks, and also offers a cloud-based DVR service on the internet-connected device of your choosing, whether it’s a media streamer , phone , tablet or TV
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Aereo puts TV antennas in the cloud, streams OTA broadcasts on the internet
Since Eric Schmidt made the rather bold proclamation that “most” new TVs would have Google TV embedded by summer 2012, we’ve all been waiting for something “big” from Mountain View. Well, if you can believe the services’ Facebook page, “big announcements” are just what we can expect Monday
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Google TV Facebook page teases new announcement (Update: It’s a new YouTube app)
Just a short bit after we first reported on the Samsung inTouch camera we also got our first chance at a close-up encounter with the little beast. This camera is a Wi-fi enabled webcam-like device that allows you to turn your gigantic home television into a 720p conferencing station, fully integrated with Skype. This little device also allows you to browse the web and use YouTube on your television with ease
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Samsung inTouch TV Hands-on
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
