"apps" articles

ANT, a provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, announced that Humax, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of digital set-top boxes, has selected ANT to deliver a Sky Player implementation for use with its Freeview HD products. ANT’s implementation of the Sky Player TV specification has been developed in collaboration with BSkyB and benefits from the full capabilities of the ANT Galio Platform. Humax offers two products for the UK’s Freeview HD...

ioko announced it has teamed up with Samsung to further accelerate the development of direct-to-TV applications for Samsung TVs. ioko, which developed LOVEFiLM’s secure Real Time Messaging Protocol encrypted (RTMPe) based player, a world first in direct-to-TV subscription video on demand (VOD) , is now certified to develop applications for Samsung’s range of Internet@TV sets.

I had an interesting call with Western Digital yesterday regarding their WD TV Live Plus product, one that we categorize as a Networked Digital Video Player. They indicate that recent sales numbers actually have them leading this category for the U.S. market. They note that they're even beating the vaunted Roku Digital Video Player . After years of hand-wringing about how (or if) digital media adapters would sell (which they really didn't until it was determined that streamed...

Google and Intel are expected to announce a significant breakthrough into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a “Smart TV” platform reported a recent Financial Times' article . With TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes rapidly adding wired or wireless internet connectivity to their features, a host of companies are tailoring and integrating web-based content for living room entertainment. “If you had asked me a year ago, I...

Throughout its 24 years of history, Parks Associates has been grappling with the question of when and how home control systems will become mainstream. Home systems analyst Bill Ablondi , in Parks Associates’ most recent report, Home Systems: Home Controls-- Analysis and Forecasts flips the question. Ablondi and colleague Farhan Abid say that the current value propositions for consumers to purchase control systems are not sufficient to appeal to mass markets. Either the...

Parks Associates announced the preliminary agenda for CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase , which will address the future of digital entertainment and connected CE with keynotes from Sony and Samsung. In addition to the focus on digital content and new service offerings for consumers, the three-day event will feature research presentations and speaker panels on support services, DRM, energy management and controls, advertising, and mobile applications and services....

In a sign that mobile operators begin to recognize the downloadable mobile apps market as a viable opportunity and view the handset makers’ aggressiveness in this area as a credible threat, twenty-four operators announced their Wholesale Applications Community initiative today at the MWC event in Barcelona. We warned as early as in our November 2008 industry report "mobile Imaging" that operators need to come up with counter measures to prevent others from using app stores as a...

AT&T will have more incentive to upgrade their 3G network . On February 4, AT&T announced that it would support use of the SlingPlayer over their mobile network. Prior to this announcement, AT&T had limited use of the Sling app only to Wi-Fi networks.