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9Sep

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The New Apple TV Will Be A Periscope Streaming, Social Gaming Living Room Hub

As traditional game companies Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have begun to incorporate various video and music streaming services into their consoles, Apple has plans to turn the tables. New features for its latest iteration of its streaming hardware device Apple TV will include a better graphics processor and a game controller-style remote, again blurring the lines between once separate entertainment modes. Another key addition will be live-streaming app Periscope, which is also rumored to be working on integration into the new device. The move could give a much needed boost in visibility to the Twitter-owned company and its ten million strong user base. The Periscope app allows users to broadcast a live video stream to their followers, who can then communicate with the broadca...

This Week’s Launch Of Apple TV Will Show A Strategy Shift From Streaming Into Gaming

7Sep

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This Week’s Launch Of Apple TV Will Show A Strategy Shift From Streaming Into Gaming

It seems it isn't just tech heavyweights like Google and Amazon that are making big pushes into the lucrative world of online gaming. According to reports over the weekend smartphone giant Apple will make gaming a key piece of its new and improved Apple TV product, which it is expected to unveil on Wednesday. Sources briefed on Apple's plans revealed that the new product is expected to be priced at around $150 and will contain a better graphics processor, a new remote control that doubles as a controller and an app store specifically for purchasing games. While the general consensus of Wall Street analysts is that Apple would have considerable difficulty in luring users from high end gaming consoles like the Xbox and Playstation it appears Apple understands this and will go after casual ...

Apple Is Getting Ready To Make Its Own Movies And TV Shows

1Sep

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Apple Is Getting Ready To Make Its Own Movies And TV Shows

Apple, joining Netflix, Amazon, Yahoo and a host of others, is supposedly getting into the original programming business. The iPhone manufacturer has started meeting with major Hollywood studios to get a feel for interest,according to Variety. While there’s no consensus about how serious the smartphone maker is about original programming, one reliable source informed Variety that the Cupertino Corporation wants to make both TV shows and movies. Next month, Apple is likely to launch a new version of Apple TV, and perhaps even a new service dedicated to live channels, similar to Sling TV. However, that might just be an insignificant part of a very enormous strategy. Earlier this summer, Apple supposedly tried to acquire the services of Top Gear stars Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and J...

Apple Postpones Rollout Of Live Streaming Television Service

14Aug

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Apple Postpones Rollout Of Live Streaming Television Service

Consumers anxiously awaiting Apple’s internet based, live streaming television service will continue to wait until at least 2016. Apple Inc. was supposed to unveil its streaming TV service at the upcoming September launch of the company’s new products. However, trouble with securing content deals as well as difficulties creating a computer than can handle the required capacity have slowed progress. Therefore, service will likely be delayed until next year. Apple is facing television content licensing problems that it did not face when it took over the music industry several years ago. Back when iTunes was created, music artists and industry executives were in the throes of dealing with pirated music and peer-to-peer music sharing practices. Services like Napster allowed users to download ...

Google Is Now A Major Player In Television

29May

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Google Is Now A Major Player In Television

At Google’s annual developer conference yesterday, Google I/O, Sundar Pichai, the most senior Google executive to actually speak with the public, revealed a stunning fact. act Google has sold 17 million Chromecast devices to customers around the world. Pichai added that Chromecast’s cast button has been pressed more than 1.5 billion times by users. This may not seem like much but it lays the foundation for something big. Chromecast is a very small USB stick that plugs into connected television sets. Most flat panel TVs out there support it. It's cheap and easy to use. Its original purpose was to allow people to easily connect their laptops and smartphones to their TVs in order to watch Youtube videos. A cute and sometimes handy use case, but hardly anything that will shake up the peckin...

TV Network CBS Says Its Open To Broadcasting On Apple TV

28May

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TV Network CBS Says Its Open To Broadcasting On Apple TV

An interesting development in the decline of the traditional television industry emerged on Thursday as powerful broadcast network CBS said that it was open to putting the network's programming on Apple's TV boxes, so long as it got the right price. Apple TV has thus far been without live broadcasting from major TV studios, who stick to lucrative cable networks where they get far more money than their content is actually worth, thanks to longstanding agreements with the cable monopolies. But like the recording industry, which Apple cracked years ago with iTunes, it seems the winds of change are blowing and television networks are now feeling the heat to get with the times and reach the large audiences of internet TV devices like Apple's. CBS CEO Les Moonves, whose network produces...

20May

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Apple Decides To Cancel Prototype TV

According to a recently published report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple last year gave up on releasing a branded HDTV set after nearly a decade worth of research and prototyping. The reason? It was ultimately unable to figure out a set of differentiating features that would position its TV apart from the competition. Apple intensively researched various display technologies, in an effort to find something better than rivals such as Samsung and Sony. It created a prototype that was transparent when turned off but used lasers to display an image when turned on. But the technology never made it past the research phase because it used a huge amount of power and produced an inferior quality image. Other features it played with was 4K display, which would have been far too expensive and ...