Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
I guess I’m a little slow today – well, I’m a little slow every day. Almost immediately after I posted the news about Sony’s new Internet-ready televisions, I caught this press release from Vizio:
VIZIO, America’s TV and Consumer Electronics Company, announced today the unveiling of its "Connected HDTV" Platform, which enhances the HDTV viewing experience [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
Earlier this week I had posted about LG offering Netflix streaming in its new HDTVs and other signs that the Internet is gradually becoming the future of television. Sony, unsurprisingly, won’t be outdone by LG. They’re also offering new Internet capable Bravia HDTVs, unveiled at CES 2009 in Las Vegas today.
According to the official [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Steve
Is this a sign that DRM is on its way out?
Apple announced today that all music purchased from iTunes will now be DRM-free (digital rights management free), meaning that a track purchased from iTunes can be played on any music device regardless of manufacturer or owner. In the same announcement, Apple also indicated three [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Steve
Internet usage monitoring firm comScore announced today that online video viewership was up 34% in November 2008 as compared with the same time period last year. Google’s sites, which include YouTube and Google Video, account for 40.3% of all online video viewings, or somewhere around 5 billion video views (yes, that is 5,000,000,000) for [...]
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