Consumer electronics hardware makers, predictably, began the connect-TV era by trying to do it themselves, standing up their own apps platforms and trying to add as much functionality as possible to… Read more »
YouTube’s embrace of 4K at this year’s CES is akin to what Alfred Hitchcock called the MacGuffin: a plot device that creates suspense or tension but is incidental to the real… Read more »
With Apple, Google and Microsoft all trying to turn the TV into an extension of their respective mobile ecosystems, LG is trying to turn its smart TVs into mobile-ized devices on… Read more »
The next phase in the evolution of two-screen video is likely to focus on inverting the current relationship between the big screen and the little one. That is, tablets and smartphones… Read more »
Many of the biggest stories in the connected consumer space occurred mostly offstage in 2012. Apple conducted behind-the-scenes discussions about rolling out new media services in 2013 and beyond. Google spent… Read more »
In response to a question at last week’s Streaming Media West conference, Google’s business lead for its Google TV platform, Shanna Prevé, predicted that Logitech would push out the keenly awaited… Read more »
Television commercials may soon start going over the top. For anyone looking to break pay-TV providers’ current stranglehold on the business, that’s a good thing. Last week Adobe acquired online video… Read more »
TV ads are starting to go over the top. Yesterday, Adobe acquired Auditude, maker of a video ad management platform for publishers. As the provider of the leading online video streaming… Read more »
The rapid growth of Internet-enabled HDTVs and other living room devices is laying a new technological foundation, one that will enable digital video and other media content to exist alongside the… Read more »
TV apps — interactive, web-like applications meant to “enhance” the TV viewing experience by supplementing programming content with additional material and activities — are evolving quickly from a novelty feature on… Read more »