Fan TV wanted to replace the cable box with its own device, but it needed the help from cable operators for that. Now it sold to Rovi, which may white-label Fan… Read more »
If the Xbox One comes up short as a true, all-in-one entertainment center, it’s due to the intransigence of pay-TV operators and the fecklessness of the Federal Communications Commission more than… Read more »
The thrust of the Justice Department’s two recent antitrust investigations is the same in each: to see whether incumbent media providers are abusing their dominant positions within traditional distribution chains to… Read more »
Tablets featured prominently in the connected consumer space during the second quarter of 2012, both as a product category in their own right and as a component of broader platform strategies… Read more »
Apple surprised a lot of pundits by saying almost nothing about Apple TV at the Worldwide Developers Conference. But Apple’s TV strategy is ultimately platform-based, not device-based. And looked at from… Read more »
Once the SmartGlass SDK is available, developers will have what amounts to a write-once, deploy-anywhere development environment to work in. Presumably, apps can be written to the SmartGlass APIs without having… Read more »
The case for leveraging consumers’ existing investment in TV service through DVR technology remains as strong as ever for Apple.And with last week’s TiVo Stream announcement, Apple seems to be growing… Read more »
Set-top box shipments will climb past 135 million in 2012 and will clear 150 million by 2015, according to iSuppli, which means the device has a critical presence in the living… Read more »
Apple is having a pretty good Cable Show this week, considering it isn’t there. Comcast unveiled its new X1 cable/DVR set-top box that adds smart TV-like functionality to non-connected TV sets,… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal has the scoop of the morning with its report that Intel is in talks with media companies about a plan to launch a “virtual cable TV service”… Read more »