"TV Everywhere" articles

International research firm Parks Associates will host two CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summits in 2010. The first CONNECTIONS™ Europe of 2010 will be April 27 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This executive summit will focus on connected consumer electronics and digital media, including analysis of new monetization models and the impact of technologies such as 3D TV and smartphones. The second CONNECTIONS™ Europe of 2010 will take place in November in Paris, France. Both events will...

It was not until the wrapping paper was off and the happy squeals over our bright, shiny, new, holiday gifted, Internet content (Netflicks, YouTube, etc.) to the TV, connected CE device had faded to shrill echoes that the question hit me, “Just what sort of content were we about to welcome onto the family room big screen?” A question asked too late? Hopefully not - for certainly, in an age where so many of our home CE products are moving towards greater interconnectivity, and so much...

Comcast has rolled out an on-demand, streaming TV service, Fancast Xfinity TV, which will be available to those who subscribe to both Comcast’s digital cable and internet services. Xfinity contains 2,000+ hours of content, and includes shows - and indeed, entire seasons of shows - from content partners including HBO, Cinemax, Starz, TNS, TNT, A&E, AMC, Discovery Channel, History, and BBC America. The move is considered the biggest step so far in the cable industry’s TV...

Parks Associates is supporting Future of Television East from November 18-19 in New York, NY. Kurt Scherf, VP of Research & Principal Analyst, Parks Associates will be moderating the session, "The Convergence of the Internet & the Television: Who Will Be the Winners and the Losers?" on Thursday, November 19th at 11:00 AM. Worldwide shipments of consumer-electronics devices capable of supporting Internet video, including televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray DVD...

Consumers eager to watch their favorite television programs, sports and news while on-the-go can satisfy their mobile TV craving as the handheld FLO TV Personal Television hits shelves across the nation today. The much-anticipated device from FLO TV , a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated , delivers live and time-shifted content via the award-winning FLO TV mobile TV service and will be available at Amazon.com , Best Buy , and RadioShack . As part of the launch...

Parks Associates is supporting IPTV World Forum Middle East and Africa from November 15-16 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. IPTV World Forum Middle East and Africa always provide the opportunity to benefit from established local deployments of IPTV and also meet those from further afield, along with other seasoned attendees from the IPTV World Series. This year, the event once again featured the series’ unique operator-centric formula, bringing together local and worldwide IPTV...

WD's digital media players have gone from "Sneakernet" (the WD TV product) to home network-connected with the introduction of the WD Live Media Player today. The product features network capability and Full-HD 1080p resolution. The WD TV Live media player connects directly to a users' HD TV and plays almost any file stored on a connected USB drive such as My Passport™ portable drive. The WD TV Live media player features powerful media processing, which enables playback in...

After the Consumer Electronics Show in January, I had written some thoughts about whether low-cost PCs (like netbooks) would be more widely used to bring online content and application straight to the TV and eliminate the need for digital media adapters, home networks, or other complicated solutions. At the time, I had said that was was needed was a way for the user to easily interact with the on-screen content and guide with a good remote. The folks at GlideTV think they've come up...