Paul McCartney concert stream will test the waters on live Apple TV viewership
Apple may indeed be using the Apple TV to test the live broadcasting waters, as evidenced by its recent decision to stream former Beatle Paul McCartney's live performance this Thursday. The company "announced" via a...
VooMote Zapper Universal Remote Appcessory: One Remote To Rule Them All! [Review]
Oh, sure. The idea of being able to reach out from across the room and dramatically direct your mighty will to zap stuff on, off, up, down, or cause the very Air to shimmer with Play is intoxicating — that is, until those nine...What’s on Apple’s iTV?
Jefferies' Peter Misek takes a deep dive into the problem of acquiring quality content
Amid all the chatter this week about Apple's (AAPL) putative plans to build a standalone TV set -- from Best Buy's leaked customer survey to the Globe and Mail's report that Canadian telcoms are already testing the thing in their labs --...
Best Buy Predicts 42-Inch “Apple HDTV” In Customer Survey
A rumored Apple television set has received just as much — if not more — attention than the company’s upcoming iPhone 5 in recent months, but the questions we’ve all been asking about its specifications have been answered… by Best Buy. The retailer has...Munster offers three content scenarios for iTV, says Apple tapping ‘major TV component supplier’ for late 2012 launch
Apple television mockup by Guilherme M. Schasiepen Piper Jaffray’s resident Apple analyst Gene Munster is arguably the most vocal proponent of an integrated high-definition television set from Apple, the mythical iTV. His old predictions were picked up by the press lately thanks to that vague Apple HD TV hint in Walter Isaacson’s authorized Steve Jobs biography,...
An Apple TV set in 2012?
The hardware is the easy part. The trick is to get Hollywood on board
"Apple enters markets to reinvent them," wrote Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster in a note to clients Tuesday reiterating his oft-repeated conviction that Apple's (AAPL) next big thing is an Apple-branded television set.
To be sure, Munster has scaled back his expectations since he...
Big Bang Theory Asks ‘What If Siri Was A Sexy Real-Life Woman?’ [Humor]
I’m not a huge fan of The Big Bang Theory, but this clip from the latest episode is too good not to post. What if Siri wasn’t just Wolfram Alpha stapled onto a smart text-to-speech program, but instead an actual woman, working a call...Audible Magic can recognize anything you watch on TV
An interesting piece of software I've run across at Macworld | iWorld 2012 is Audible Magic, automated-content recognition software that relies on digital fingerprinting. The Audible Magic technology will identify a TV series based off the audio as i...
Apple researching universal touchscreen remote with adaptable user interface for future TVs
A patent application published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office earlier today reveals Apple is flirting with the idea of a universal touchscreen controller capable of controlling multiple devices including a “television, a video tape player, a video disk player, a stereo, a home control system, or a computer system.” The patent application is titled...
Does it make sense for the Apple TV to become a DVR too?
When Apple first showed off the Apple TV to the world in January of 2007—then nicknamed the "iTV" and introduced alongside the original iPhone—its functionality was quite limited compared to the Apple TV we hav......
New Apple Patent Reveals Upcoming Apple TV Set Could Have DVR Capabilities
Apple is expected to revolutionize television with a set of its own later this year, and while we’re all expecting the device to feature Siri, there’s very little else we know about it. But according to a relatively new Apple patent, credited to Steve...
