The Google TV isn’t exactly a runaway success story in the US. While Google had high hopes for the platform which could bring internet video, search, and apps to television sets, only a handful of TVs and set-top-boxes with the software have hit the market. In fact, due to sluggish sales, Logitech killed off its Google TV box in November….
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Logitech has announced that it will sell off remaining inventory of the Logitech Revue. But according to The Verge, Logitech has no plans to make another Google TV set top box. The Revue launched last year for about $300. Today you can pick one up for just $99.99. The box was one of the first products to ship with Google…
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Google will start rolling out a huge software update to devices running Google TV starting next week. While Google describes the software as a way of bringing web content to your TV, the software update can perhaps best be described as Android redesigned for a big screen and a remote control. One of the key updates is support for the…
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Chinese consumer electronics company Hisense has introduced a new tablet called the I’TV. The company calls it a personalized smart TV, and the idea is that you can use the tablet primarily as a mobile television screen, but it can also run apps. The I’TV is designed to work with a Hisense television set so that you can stream programming…
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Low cost TV maker Vizio has entered the portable tablet space with the Vizio Tablet: a device with an 8 inch capacitive touchscreen display, a 1 GHz Marvell Armada 600 processor, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. Available from some retailers for under $300, the Vizio Tablet isn’t exactly the cheapest Android tablet on the market — but it’s certainly…
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Vizio’s 8 inch Android tablet is due to hit the streets later this year, but I got a chance to check out an early version of the tablet at a trade show in New York this afternoon. The tablet has an 8 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display which gives it a slightly different look and feel than pretty much…
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One of the things Apple has going for its tablets and smartphones is a strong infrastructure thanks to the iTunes App Store, video and music stores, and iBooks digital book store. Buy an iPad, and whether you have Mac or not, you know you can easily get plenty of content to consume on the tablet. If you have a Mac…
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Cable giant Comcast has announced plans to let subscribers stream live and On Demand content to the Apple iPad later to the iPad and Android tablets. Comcast already offers an Xfinity TV app for iPad which lets users view program guides, schedule recordings, or use the tablet as a TV remote control. Later this year, the company will add the…
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With everybody and their kid brother expected to launch an Android powered tablet soon, how do you make your product stand out from the crowd? If you’re Motorola, the answer may be to bundle your 10 inch tablet with Verizon’s service. And I don’t just mean 3G mobile broadband, but also Verizon’s FiOS digital TV service. The Financial Times is…
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Hulu has launched a new subscription-based service that offers US residents the ability to watch TV shows on a PC, Mac, some web-connected TVs and Blu-Ray players, and Apple mobile products including the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. The company isn’t eliminating its free, ad-supported service. Instead, Hulu Plus comes with the ability to watch programming on mobile devices or…
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Cydle is a company which typically makes in-car multimedia devices, but it’s branching out into MID territory with several new devices including the Cydle M7 which functions as a portable video player, mobile TV, and internet search device. The M7 has a 7 inch widescreen display and an integrated ATSC TV tuner. It also has 8GB of storage space (expandable…
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