Posts Tagged ‘TV’

DTG: iPad Beats Connected TV for BBC

March 2nd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Interesting news from the floor of the Digital TV Group summit in London. We found some info as to how competitive TV sets might become to tablets as the BBC wishes for TV vendors to simplify their products.

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Unity Makes a Nove to LG’s TV’s

February 7th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: C | No Comments »

It seems LG is in for some serious gaming as Unity has expanded support for their development tools to LG. LG has already been running a dedicated TV app store on their connected TV’s and Blu Ray Players for a number of years.

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Samsung Steps Into Google TV

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

While Samsung recently said they were looking into a new platform for app development on both their mobile phones and internet@tv service, the company has now announced to start support for Google TV.

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Adobe Expands AIR to TV

October 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Adobe Flash & Air | No Comments »

With the rise of smart TV’s, it was only to be expected that Adobe would expand their Adobe AIR format to support those smart TV’s as it already does with AIR on mobile phones.

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IBC: WebTube, Android as IPTV Box

September 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

The Korean company Kaonmedia was present on the IBC event in Amsterdam to show off their huge collection on Settop and IPTV boxes. One of them really caught our attention as it was both very small and running on Android 1.5.

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Samsung Starts TV App Development Competition

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Samsung Apps is not only available on the Samsung phones, but also on Samsung TV’s and Blue Ray/Media players. To make development for these platforms more interesting, the company is hosting a contest for US developers.

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People of Lava Develops Android TV

April 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Smartphones & Tablets | No Comments »

Swedish TV vendor People of Lava has shown a new TV that is running on Android 1.5. According to the company, they are the first to release a TV based on the operating sytem.