Tag: TV

An app that knows what you're watching can serve up related Web articles or other informationas well as targeted ads.

A new iPad app from Yahoo can recognize any TV show by listening to the audio, and automatically serve up related Web content, such as news stories related to a news broadcast or play-by-play stats for a ballgame.

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One manufacturer reports that stores and distributors are returning Google more TV devices than they have sold.

Google's hopes of becoming a force in television by releasing software that brings Web video and other online contentincluding adsto the small screen appear to be fading fast. In recent months, stores and distributors selling one flagship Google TV device returned more of them than they sold as consumer demand fell.

After years of research, Microsoft hopes to provide a system that lets data communications weave through TV frequencies.

The first "white spaces" devices, which thread long-range wireless data signals through gaps in TV spectrum, will start to appear later this year. Microsoft is bidding to play a central role in how they operate.

As many Americans eat up the Royal Wedding, those on the other side of the spectrum are left wondering why?
Author Mark Oppenheimer weighs in on the media blitz surrounding Harry and Kate's sideshow nuptials, and how commemorative cupcakes are just a sampling of America's outrageous overindulgence.

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 17, 2011 (Reuters) "American Idol" is the darling of TV advertisers, dwarfing other TV shows by raking in an estimated $7.11 million every half hour last year for the Fox network, according to a Forbes.com survey.

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Google TV's planned fall launch is not news, but given that Google hasn't said much about its television plans since May, it's time for a refresher. Here's a quick rundown of everything to know about Google TV as anticipation grows for the imminent launch of the service:

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LG is back in the limelight at the Society for Information Display (SID) 2010 trade fair with possibly the world's first 84-inch 3D TV. This mammoth is also the first of its kind with four times the resolution of full-HD panels, thanks to its native 3,840x2,160-pixel screen.

This display still requires 3D glasses, but the chaebol is also at the same event showcasing a 47-inch 3D TV that does away with these goggles. The key enabling technology here is the "liquid lens," though details on this solution are sketchy at the moment. If its double-image (or infamous crosstalk issue) is an eyesore for you, LG is demonstrating a polarized glass-based 3D TV said to minimize this problem to less than 1 percent.

Are you ready for some football? These HDTVs scored well in our fast-motion tests, and are ideal for watching the Super Bowl or the Winter Olympics.

These HDTVs scored well in our fast-motion tests, which can make them good choices for watching the Super Bowl or the Winter Olympics.

A few weeks ago we looked at and were very impressed by Philips' 42PFL7404: an actually affordable 42in model that still offered at least a taste of the heavy duty processing power for which Philips is becoming famous - or infamous, I guess, if youre one of those people still clinging to the idea that lots of processing inevitably leads to pictures that dont look natural.

There's something painfully ironic about sitting on your living room couch, just a few feet away from a beautiful widescreen HDTV, watching a movie on your tiny laptop.
Yet this is what most of us do when we download movies or V showsT onto our computers.

The same goes for showing off our latest digital photos to friends. We all huddle around the 15-inch computer display while the TV screen goes unused. And what about that PowerPoint presentation you just gave at work? Wouldn't it have looked 1,000 times better on the wall-mounted plasma display in the conference room?