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 [...]
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 »TV lovers rejoice! Thanks to the recently ratified ATSC mobile digital TV standard, you may soon find yourself watching live broadcast TV via a portable device. While all those NTSC compatible Sony Watchmen will still be trash, expect innumerable ATSC enabled portable personal media devices to flood the market in the very near future. The full [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Content Delivery, Personal Media Players, Technology, TV and Video Tags: ATSC, HD, NTSC, PMP, Sony, TV 1 Comment »New TechClickers may not realize how excited wireless power news makes us. We were stoked even when the Wireless Power Consortium changed its logo! So needless to say, Sony’s announcement today that it’s sustainably sending 60W of power over 20 inches of empty air has the TechClicker office abuzz. Sony is using the relatively common magnetic resonance [...]
