Posts Tagged with ‘Apple-TV’

A major tide is shifting in the music industry as the digital age slowly eats away at the number of CD sales in favor of downloadable MP3s. Today, Apple has announced that the sales figures for 2007 are in from the NPD Group, and iTunes has come in as the #2 music retailer, trailing only behind Wal-Mart.
In today's press release, Apple has revealed that more than 50 million people are now using the iTunes store of more than 6 [...]

The original intent of the Apple TV set-top box was to make it easier for anyone to transfer media files from their PC to their television, which is an idea that seems to have been somewhat accepted by consumers although the interface still presents some problems to users.
Now, to make it even easier to watch movies on the AppleTV, Apple today announced a new software update for the devices which will add support for the new iTunes Movie Rental [...]

Not a week has passed since I assembled a list of predictions for 2008 for your amusement, and already we find two well-known corporate entities deliver an official press release proving one postulation to be quite on-target.
Indeed, both Netflix and LG have teamed together to form a sort of digital download alliance, giving something of a morsel of credence to the article published here in Profy last Saturday. The arrangement the two partners in cinematic deliverance [...]

The Web is abuzz with talk over who in the Apple-NBC debacle is the worst off for the planned severance to come next week, when The Peacock’s fall programming has its public debut. Profy’s very own Cyndy Aleo-Carreira covered the news soon after it broke, and now we receive word that, following its exit from the iTunes shop, NBC has tapped Amazon for the distribution of its content for the season ahead. So we figured we’d pick the story apart [...]

Slowly but surely, IPTV is making way into more and more avenues of the consumer market. The latest news to push that point further along is an Amazon-TiVo joint announcement stating movies available in Amazon’s Unbox department will be accessible to all Series 2 and Series 3 TiVo set top box owners/users – directly through interaction with said TiVo boxes - starting today.
Okay, so it’s not technically IPTV if we’re talking “Internet Protocol Television”. Same diff, though, [...]

We covered a product called Jaman (a P2P video client that connected users with inexpensive purchase-to-own downloads and over-the-Web rentals of films produced on the independent circuit, many of which have found audiences across international divides) when it was quite a young one several months back. Today, we check in to see where it’s at and what it’s done with itself.
As it turns out, its creators have done quite a bit. Some alterations. Some enhancements. Some more polish. It’s [...]

What was originally generally known as Microsoft IPTV has had its label altered. It is now to be referred to as Mediaroom. Yep. Big news, huh?
In all seriousness, the announcement of Mediaroom is quite weighty, if only because Microsoft’s ties to content providers and distributors in the realm of IPTV are relationships with considerable value. Plus, with the name change come a few software updates, which include “in-home personal music and video sharing, dynamic picture-in-picture capabilities and digital terrestrial [...]

Consumer spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion in 2011 compared to the $111 million spent last year according to a study released by Adams Media Research. According to the study the new surge in growth is being fueled by the introduction of hardware devices like Apple TV, a $299 box that converts videos downloaded from the Internet into signals that can be played on HD TV's. Apple Inc. is selling these devices on [...]