Tag: TV
Spotify streaming expanding to TV shows with HBO?
Spotify, the fast-growing music streaming service, may be about to extend their service into pastures new by offering TV show streaming alongside the tunes. A new report from Danish tech site Beep.tv2.dk suggests that the Swedish music maestros are preparing…
IFA 2012: Haier show off wild TV tech including transparent screens and eye-controlled sets
More inspired takes on TV tech coming out of the Haier stable at this year's IFA 2012 conference, following an interesting showing from the brand earlier in the year at CES 2012. Are you ready for eye-controlled and transparent television…
YouView gets movie boost with NOW TV app
YouView, the long-awaited set-top box mash-up with both terrestrial TV and online video-on-demand channels, gets its first major content update today with the addition of BSkyB's NOW TV movie streaming service. Pulling in hundreds of films from the Sky Movies…
Toshiba hit with $87 million fine following LCD price fixing
Toshiba have been hit with an $87 million fine after they were found guilty of entering into an LCD panel price fixing ring between the years 1999 and 2006. Sharp, Samsung and a handful of other AV companies were met…
10,000 Sony jobs cut as TV production slows 40%
Sony have confirmed rumours of major restructuring plans that will see 10,000 jobs lost and TV production slow 40%. The news of job cuts was leaked last week, and now Sony CEO Kaz Hirai has confirmed that downsizing plans are…
May launch for YouView catch-up TV streaming platform?
YouView, the long-delayed TV catch-up streaming box that pulls together online TV content from all the major terrestrial broadcasters in the UK, may finally have a launch window. The Freeview-based TV-on-demand system is now expected to launch on May…
Nuance announce LG as first Dragon voice-controlled TV partner, beat Apple TV with Siri to the punch
Following their announcement at CES 2012, Nuance have revealed LG as the first manufacturing partner for Dragon voice-controlled TVs, beating any Apple Siri controlled potential alternative to the punch by a wide margin. Nuance of course lay down the…
TalkTalk to test its YouView service in early 2012
YouView, the venture that is looking to bring on-demand video and Freeview together, is to start a friends and family testing period starting in early 2012. The service is looking to be a catch up service that is based…
Are fatscreens the new flatscreen TVs?
It's a tongue-twister as well as a head-twister, but just like mobiles got too small, it seems TVs are getting too thin. It makes sense: once the screen is down to an inch, who cares if they shave off…
Who cares about the telly? It's all about the internet now
It's official: internet access and mobile phones are more important to young Britons than television. This is the conclusion from new research from Ofcom, the communications regulator, but at a closer look it's not such a straight shot as…
