As an alternative to the recent survey from Strategy Analytics claiming that just 9% of European smart TV users actually connect regularly to the online services, an alternative survey produced by English firm Futuresource Consulting has discovered that around three-quarters of users surveyed use the Internet through their TV. In a survey seemingly made more in a hybrid of the study by Strategy Analytics and the measurement of [...]
Arguably America’s biggest names in their respective fields, sports broadcaster ESPN have reportedly been in talks with technology giant Apple over an official app on the latter’s range of TV products, including the future planned ‘iPanel’. With the rumoured deal currently set to just encompass the ‘Apple TV’ set-top box, the talks seem to lean more towards the [...]
Digital Video Recorder (DVR) producers TiVo have revealed carriage deals with two of their fellow major on-demand viewing names, as official Netflix and YouTube apps are released for the customers of the product. While they are part of a population of many service providers on this bandwagon, TiVo will be pleased to finally have the popular [...]
As expected, Apple’s planned smart TV product (most likely to be called iPanel), is due to have a range of interactive control-based features seen on other devices produced by the company, such as Siri voice control and Facetime are confirmed for the upcoming connected TV. A report made by independent blogging site Cult Of Mac [...]
A recent YouGov survey into the use of smart TV sets in the UK has revealed that, amongst other key statistics for connected TV viewing, almost half of owners do not know what a smart TV is designed for. In a general survey of 2,000 panel members (1,300 of which owned a smart TV set), YouGov [...]
South Korean internet service company Daum Communications recently revealed a new connected TV set and set-top box, which they intend to use as a means of competing with other companies developing in the industry, such as Google TV and Apple. Daum is the provider of South Korea’s second-most popular search engine (behind Naver), and on Friday [...]
