Long relegated to the fringe, Internet-enabled TV sets are finally
ready for prime time: Nearly 28 million will ship this year, up 125%
from 2009, and electronics research firm iSuppli Corp. estimates that
by 2014, 54% of ...READ»
Toshiba's just unveiled a range of glasses-free HDTVs, which it's saying are the first units of their type to be aimed at the consumer. Will Jo Public leap at the chance to watch 3-D movies without specs?READ»
Happy birthday, boob tube! Well, almost. The cathode-ray tube, the technology that made television sets possible, was patented 100 years ago today. But it would be a slow slog before TV took over our living rooms.READ»
Apple TV is out, and it's already been sliced and filleted, revealing Apple's long-term secret plan to get its app store onto your TV and beat the set-top-box brigade.READ»
Sales of these high-tech TVs are sluggish, according to Best Buy -- and the big box giant is pointing the finger of blame at electronics marketers.READ»
Apple's refreshed TV product hasn't yet hit the stores, and though it revealed some of its details, Apple's been quiet about the tech potential inside the tiny box. Now its secrets are leaking, and it looks promising.READ»
This fall, one election really matters: Which set-top box will connect your TV to the Internet? Apple TV and Google TV have all the money, but fringe candidate Boxee Box, with its radical open-source philosophy, deserves a closer look.READ»
Intel CEO Paul Otellini accidentally announced the launch window for Google TV in an interview, along with who he expects the service will appeal to.READ»
Samsung just pulled the veil from its dual-core Orion low-power chip, based on ARM Cortex A9 designs. It's powerful, impressive. It may also be the secret behind Apple's next iPad/iPhone CPU.READ»
Apple's latest iPod and Apple TV event was notionally about the snazzy product line, but it also reveals how much Apple's future hinges on its house-brand ARM chips--the A4 silicon is now inside four keystone Apple gizmos.READ»
The immediate reaction to the new, redesigned, strikingly cheap Apple TV is pity for Apple TV's competitors. Boxee, one of those competitors, sees it differently--and they might just be right.READ»
Getting movie studios to agree to a streaming video policy is no small task. Amazon is, according to a rumor, willing to fight that battle if they can come out with a Netflix competitor.READ»
The flood of opinions, analysis, guesses, prognostication, rumors, and insights gleaned from the reading of bird entrails always flows right up until a new Apple event--even one like tomorrow's, which many Apple observers ...READ»
A new survey seems bad news for the burgeoning 3-D industry--only 2% of British consumers want to buy a 3-D TV. Will a Japanese invention of a "touchable" 3-D user interface help the technology's appeal?READ»
The rumors spin ever faster about Apple's iTV device--it'll apparently change everything, and now there's some evidence that Apple is training its in-store employees for "something big."READ»
The rumors about a refresh for Apple's TV product are swirling again, only this time with more ferocity. It's almost like the time before the iPad arrived on the scene.READ»
Roger Ebert hates 3-D, and Avatar gave me a headache. But it's the hottest video trend in 2010 and likely 2011. Scores of movies (including good ones, like Toy Story 3) are leading the way in the high-end bracket, but 3-D televisions ...READ»
Apple has just lavished attention on its smallest Mac, the Mini, and now the tiny beast is smaller, more powerful and HDMI-capable. And it provides a preview of what Apple's other media box, the Apple TV, might be like--if Jobs and ...READ»
The Apple TV may be about to graduate from a "hobby" project into a world-beater, if leaked info that's reached Engagdet proves true. It's set to rival Google's TV offering, and will see Apple embrace cloud-based content streaming for ...READ»
With lots of Google TV and other Web TV news hitting at the moment, I asked yesterday where Apple was ... and today there's a well-timed patent filing showing some new tweaks to Apple TV. These include an iPhone "simulator," ...READ»
