Hulu tips: 50% of users now exclusively mobile or set-top box

While it’d be easier to think that the world was moving towards an all-mobile environment for consuming media, Hulu suggests today that it’s slightly more complicated than that. Statistics shown … Continue reading

TV-U1 TV tuner adds broadcast channels to Nuvola NP-1 4K streaming device

We’ve talked about streaming devices and set top boxes from Nuvola in the past. One of the products from the company that we have talked about is the Nuvola NP-H1. Nuvola also has another steaming media set top box called the Nuvola NP-1. This device is billed as the world’s first 4K UltraHD media player. […]

Apple TV Bloomberg App Brings 24 Hour Live News Stream

Apple TV Bloomberg App Brings 24 Hour Live News Stream

Cupertino’s set-top box, the Apple TV, has received quite a lot of new content partners this year. Apple isn’t done adding new partners, Apple TV has now received a couple of new apps from content partners. There’s a Watch ABC app through which users can stream content from local ABC affiliates. KOR TV is a Korean language channel which can be streamed through the set-top box now. Crackle app brings movies and TV. The biggest addition is that of a Bloomberg app, through which users will be able to keep themselves up to date with the news 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Bloomberg has actually become the first channel to add 24 hour news stream to the Apple TV. Content accessible through the app is similar to what users can find on Bloomberg TV’s website as well as its mobile applications. There’s on-demand content with clips and full shows, special live stream for breaking news and various events as well as a continuous live stream of news. The Bloomberg Apple TV app is going to be updated in the coming weeks, and the playlist feature already available in its iOS app will be added to the set-top box as well. It will let users create playlists and resume watching from the point where they left off on another device. Notifications feature is being worked on at this point in time, users will be able to get alerts for shows and events on the Apple TV.

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    Time Warner Cable Open To Including Netflix On Its Set-Top Boxes

    Time Warner Cable Open To Including Netflix On Its Set Top Boxes

    Time Warner Cable announced they will be adding its TWC TV application to another platform this week, with many speculating it might possibly land on either the Apple TV or Google Chromecast. It looks like Time Warner Cable isn’t just thinking of expanding its service to other platforms, but also embracing another video streaming service onto its own set-top boxes. (more…)

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    Hisense announces H6 smart TV and Pulse PRO set-top box with Android

    Electronics and appliances manufacturer Hisense this week announced two new products. The main offering is the H6 smart TV, which relies on a Marvell HD media processor and Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). The Pulse PRO, which also runs Android 4.2.2, brings the Hisense smart TV suite of software and services to any HD TV. Pricing […]

    Nexus TV next up from Google: Android, Netflix, Hulu, simplicity

    This afternoon a bit of light has been shined on the next generation in Google’s play for the living room, a device code-named Nexus TV. This machine has been chatted about over the past couple of years, moving in and out of talks on Google TV, the company’s current headliner television product alongside Chromecast. What […]

    The Xbox One Will Make Your Cable Box Look Like a Relic

    When the Xbox One made its entrance back in May, showing off its slick, boxy body and collection of Kinect tricks, we were treated to a little taste of how it was not only going to play games, but also take charge of your TV. Since then, we haven’t heard to much more, but we sat down with Microsoft to find out more about what this will all look like. Turns out it looks like pure future.

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    Vizio Co-Star LT Stream Player makes any TV a smart TV

    Vizio has become one of the most popular TV manufacturers in America thanks in large part to its nice technology at reasonable prices. Vizio has announced a new streaming media player called the Co-Star LT Stream Player that promises to bring the companies connected smart TV experience to any HDTV. The stream player is able […]

    Amazon reportedly to launch set top box by the holiday season

    Earlier today, word surfaced that Amazon has a device in the works called the Amazon Firetube, something said to be similar to the Google Chromecast. Following this, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Amazon has plans to launch a set top box in time for the upcoming holidays, something said to be codenamed […]

    Amazon Firetube trademark likely aimed at TV box Second Screen companion

    There’s a collection of Amazon products on the way nearing the end of the year here in 2013, it would seem, with the winner for Most Likely to Appear First going to a trademark filing by the name of Amazon Firetube. This name will quite likely go to a product that’ll take cues from Google’s […]