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BT develops semantic television
News BT has taken a leading role in the creation of the world's first "shape-shifted" television program. Accidental Lovers, which will broadcast on Finnish television on 27 December, is a romantic comedy with a difference -- the ability of its viewers...
14 December 2006, 10:11
IBM shows off low-cost 3D TV tech
News Just because the television is flat doesn't mean the content has to be. At the 22nd annual Flat Information Displays conference in San Francisco, IBM's display laboratories demonstrated a low-cost way to get high-resolution 3D images from a large...
10 November 2005, 9:06
Nielsen to provide ratings for videogames
News Nielsen Media Research, famed for its influential US television ratings, has announced that it will begin providing ratings for videogames. The system also is intended to offer insight into what television and Internet trends they follow.
19 October 2006, 10:20
iTunes to offer TV shows in UK
News Apple will sell television programmes in the UK via its iTunes store as part of its push to become a one-stop shop for digital entertainment. The launch of on-demand services, billed by some television executives as the biggest change in the way...
30 August 2007, 9:55
Tech giants focus on TV
News Ever since Richard Dimbleby and Tony Hancock were inventing modern culture in black and white, the living room television has been the centrepiece of home entertainment. On average, American households spend between three and seven hours per day...
24 November 2005, 9:38
UK battles Net TV regulation
News The UK government is fighting an attempt by the European Commission to change the way television is regulated in Europe amid fears that this could lead to the regulation of Internet content. James Purnell, the broadcasting minister, plans to lobby...
31 January 2006, 9:01
Yahoo hooks up with digital TV
News In a move that further blurs the lines of television and the Internet, Yahoo and TiVo have partnered to schedule downloads to TiVo boxes from any Internet connection. TiVo has been in talks with several search engine companies including Yahoo to...
7 November 2005, 9:53
Toshiba to challenge LCD with SED TVs
News Toshiba set the screen size for a new type of television it says will provide better performance than LCD and plasma, and vowed that the price would be competitive. Toshiba and Canon formed a joint venture around a concept a few years ago when...
3 October 2006, 11:30
HP wants TV to be households' digital hub
News Hewlett-Packard is shifting some of the power in the digital home from the PC to the television. HP has been slowly building up its television inventory to compete with the likes of Sony, Samsung and Dell.
12 September 2005, 10:37
TV catches the Web video bug
News Dirty secret or not, the Web has long been a platform for downloading and watching pirated clips of television shows like Lost and The Simpsons, much to the chagrin of the TV networks. And ABC News Digital plans to enhance its television news...
23 February 2006, 9:09
Streaming Web video to the TV
News If there was ever any doubt that people would continue watching video on television sets, there shouldn't be anymore as companies large and small introduce new products this year that take video downloaded from the Web and stream it to TV screens.
10 January 2007, 11:08
Siemens challenges Microsoft IPTV dominance
News Recent speculation about problems with Microsoft's new Internet Protocol television software could give Siemens, the German telecommunications equipment giant, just the opportunity it's looking for to break into the emerging IPTV market.
14 June 2005, 10:41
New Samsung slimline panel TV screen
News Samsung has devised a 40-inch panel that could lead to television sets that are little more than 25mm thick. Creating television-size panels is considerably trickier. Next week the South Korean electronics giant is expected to show off a prototype...
20 May 2005, 10:14
Apple unveils device to link PC to TV
News Apple thinks it's come up with the missing link between the PC and the television. Apple TV, as discussed in September, is a small white box that plugs into a flat-panel TV and wirelessly connects to a Mac or PC over an 802.11n network, allowing...
10 January 2007, 9:35
Sharp unveils 108-inch LCD TV
News Sharp took the wraps off a 108-inch LCD television, what it called the world's largest, during a press conference on Sunday on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More importantly, the television is a shot across the bow to the...
8 January 2007, 9:05

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