Consumer Reports

What’s more, Cognitive certainly sees personalized advertising as part of its business model. In its 2013 press release announcing the partnership with LG, the company highlighted the value of ACR for advertisers, who could “pinpoint what viewer’s interests are and provide more targeted advertisements based on their preferences.” A white paper prepared by the market research firm Parks Associates for Cognitive Networks lists the “always on” nature of ACR as one of its key benefi ...read more

If you don't have an Internet-connected TV, or the one you have isn't able to access some services you'd like to use, you may be considering a stand-alone streaming media player. That's no surprise; market research firm Parks Associates forecasts that by 2015, one-quarter of all U.S. households will own one of these devices.

From the article "Roku 3 tops Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Chromecast in streaming player shootout."