Forget about Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, and all the other platforms trying to aggregate online content into an easily accessible interface that bypasses traditional providers of television programming. Their inability to access the amount of basic content available with a cable TV subscription is their Achilles heel. Announcements today at the 2011 Consumer Electronics [...]
Most of the big cable companies have released their quarterly earnings reports, which include data pertaining to the number of TV subscribers they’ve added or lost. NewTeeVee reports that across the board, the cable companies cumulatively lost more than 500,000 TV subscribers in the 3rd quarter of 2010, adding to more than 700,000 losses from [...]
The hype surrounding the pending release of Google TV reached epidemic levels this week, as Google revealed details about its much anticipated platform, and hardware makers such as Sony and Logitech demonstrated various ways to implement Google’s new technology. Pursuing a different approach than other digital media streaming solutions from Apple or Boxee, Google TV intends to [...]
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6 Comments »Today, Google unveiled a website dedicated to Google TV, the company’s upcoming content streaming platform with which it will compete against Apple, Boxee, and the vast numbers of lesser known digital media streaming technologies currently available. The site finally demystifies some of the platform’s features that, up until now, have only existed as speculative guesses [...]
