Consumers Prefer TV Sets As Primary Screens For Online Video Streaming

Various market research reports have announced the gradual death of television long before. The credit was given to the rise of online videos, viewed mainly through computers and cellphones. But, a new report reveals some interesting insights. The report tells how television and video streaming has finally learned to go along side by side, complimenting each other.

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NETGEAR Introduces Three Smart NeoTV Streaming Players

Internet users are increasingly using the web to access multimedia content using online streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. Keeping this in view, networking equipment maker NETGEAR has unveiled three new NeoTV streaming players which can connect with a multitude of online streaming services. And, these players are smarter than most smart TVs in the market.

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World’s First Gesture Controlled Set-Top Box For TV – NtobeBox

Gesture control technology is well-known to all tech savvy people. One good example is Microsoft Kinect that allows people to use their whole body as a video game controller. Now the gesture control technology has come on both Android and on TV box. A set-top box named ntobeBox is now offering gesture controlled TV interactions. Now, you can forget about your old remote, and can directly control your TV with a wave of your hand.

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Woes For Google TV Ads, It Might Have Violated Federal Law By Censoring Green Party’s Political Ads

As we near the Presidential elections in the U.S., the climate of the political arena is growing feverish. Google has been actively covering the latest happenings on the political front. The company has also been running political ads through its TV ads unit, to be shut down within a couple of months, and recently ran a political ad by Green Party. The problem is, Google censored a portion of the ad on the basis of usage of inappropriate language on public media, and the Green Party has accused Google for violating Federal law by doing so.

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“TV Ads” Retire From Google’s Office

Goggle has announced that it is abandoning the “TV Ads” service. Alongside the video ads for webpages Google started the TV Ads service through its Adward service for televisions. It was 2007 when they started the service and campaigned about the service saying “target up to 42 million US households”. Giants like Sony and Logitech joined the project. But now it has been retired.

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4K Technology Based TVs Widely Unveiled By Reputed Companies At IFA 2012

3D technology based TVs were one of the widely discussed topics at IFA 2011 and CES 2011. But at this year’s IFA, many reputed companies like LG, Sony, Toshiba unveiled 4K TVs. LG, Sony, Toshiba all represented 84 inch 4K TVs. Panasonic also displayed 20 inch 4K TVs. The technology 4K has already got huge popularity.

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Ice Screen – World’s First 26-inch Portable Smart TV

Chinese electronics giant TCL and the country’s largest ISP Tencent has unveiled a 26-inch smart TV with a 1,366 x 768 display called the Ice Screen. This 26-inch smart TV is touted as “the world’s first large screen mobile entertainment smart cloud product.” That is, it packs a 26-inch portable screen, a video player, a music and photo album, and HD video communications capability.

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Is Apple Getting Serious About The TV ‘Hobby’?

Apple TV has been around for quite some time and until now, Apple has been touting that as a ‘hobby’ of the tech giant. Now, however, it seems that Apple is starting to take this hobby rather seriously. But how exactly does Apple intend to make it big in the realm of TV entertainment? Read below to find out.

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