Logitech Teases Google TV Product with Its ‘Lonely TV’ Ad Campaign
Logitech, in my opinion, has a great little ad campaign going that teases viewers on what the company will be launching this Fall. The tagline: "TV misses you. Television is reinvented Fall 2010." The ads feature family members too busy on the Internet to be bothered watching TV. In fact, one of the ads, Lonely TV: [...]
Alereon-based Imation Link Wireless Display Solution Now Available for Purchase
Remember the Alereon NoWire Wireless USB Extender we all got a glimpse of back in January? Well, Imation has licensed the technology from Alereon and rebranded it as the Imation Link Wireless A/V Extender. The ultra-wideband wireless PC-to-TV solution, compatible with Mac and Windows PCs, will retail for $149.99 and be capable of displaying your [...]
76% of 18 to 24-year-olds Browse the Internet While Watching TV
Social Media PR agency, Diffusion, conducted a survey of 2,086 people, ages 18-55, for YouGov's Social TV trends report and found that nearly 76% of 18 to 24-year-olds like browsing the web and doing stuff online while watching TV (percentage for the entire survey group: 58%). Many of them, according to the report, want to vote [...]
MPEG-LA Makes Its H.264 Codec Royalty-free to Content Producers (Mozilla Says It Doesn’t Change a Thing)
The MPEG-LA has just announced that they will never collect royalties from video producers who distribute MPEG-4 content online for free to end users encoded in the H.264 codec. As you can imagine this declaration brings a huge sigh of relief to video podcasters, budding film makers, and the like who were warned earlier this [...]
LIBOX Makes Creating a Personal P2P Network Easy
If you're a fan of this site, you're always on the look out for new technologies that makes sharing and accessing your media content easy. A recently launched, free service called LIBOX provides that functionality and a bunch more. With LIBOX, users can install an app on their Mac or Windows PCs and then access [...]
AVerMedia Launches the ‘HD HomeFree Duet’ Network DVB-T Tuner
Looks like SiliconDust's HDHomeRun has some new competition. AVerMedia earlier this month added a new tuner that provides two simultaneous TV broadcast connections over your home network from a DVB-T source [diagram]. The AVerMedia HD HomeFree Duet can support up to 1080i HD video playback on a Windows XP/Vista or Windows 7 32/64-bit system. No [...]
Survey Finds a Majority of Non-Apple Product Owners Lack Interest in the iPad
Strategy Analytics got some interesting results in their recent Connected Home Devices survey (conducted in July 2010) which found that less than 2% of non-Apple product owners would consider buying an iPad. However, 18% of existing Apple product owners are considering buying an iPad, or even second one, in some cases in the near term. Strategy [...]
Get Ready for In-air TV Remotes Powered by Hillcrest Labs’ Patented Freespace Technology
Hillcrest Labs today is announcing that it has licensed its Freespace in-air pointing and motion-control technology to LG and Sony. LG, in particular, is bundling the Freespace-powered "Magic Wand" remote (sound familiar?) with its first 3D-ready, Internet-connected INFINIA HDTVs with NetCast Entertainment access. No word how Sony plans to use it, but it will most [...]