Game Consoles Most Popular Web to TV Device

According to research by In-Stat, consoles will be the preferred medium of Web to TV devices. And by the year 2013, over 10.7 million will be in use for this purpose. The Console manufacturers realise the potential and are all jumping aboard online TV and turning the humble console into an entertainment hub. Full Story : WorldTVPC.com….

More People Are Watching TV and Movies on the Web, Study Shows

While most people still prefer to watch video on their televisions, a new study by Bernstein Research suggests more people than you might think are turning to the Internet for their video fix. According to the study, more than half of the U.S. population watches television programming or movies on the Web. Even more surprising, a full 46-percent of that number is made up of folks 40-years-old and above. Apparently, those generations are more Web-savvy than they are often portrayed. Full Story : Switched.com….

Important early language development decreased by TV

Television significantly reduces the amount of communication between a parent and child, according to research. Young children and parents use fewer words and utter fewer sounds when in the presence of a television, according to a paper published in the June 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Lead researcher Dr Dimitri A Christakis said: “We’ve known that television exposure during infancy is associated with language delays and attentional problems, but so far it has remained unclear why. Full Story : Adams.co.uk…..

Internet TVs, Other Video Devices To More Than Quadruple By 2013

Worldwide shipments of consumer-electronics devices capable of supporting Internet video are projected to rise by nearly a factor of five from 2009 to 2013, according to research firm iSuppli. The firm forecast that 376.5 million devices supporting Internet video will be shipped annually by 2013, up from 80.5 million in 2008. The devices include televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray DVD players, videogame consoles and dedicated video platforms. Full Story : MultiChannel.com….

Children who view adult-targeted TV may become sexually active earlier in life

Early onset of sexual activity among teens may relate to the amount of adult content children were exposed to during their childhood, according to a new study released by Children’s Hospital Boston. Based on a longitudinal study tracking children from age six to eighteen, researchers found that the younger children are exposed to content intended for adults in television and movies, the earlier they become sexually active during adolescence. Full Story : Physorg.com…..

Video-on-demand system matches ads to viewers

ZillionTV a start up company offers subscription-free movies and TV shows right on their TVs from the Internet. The service enables viewers to choose the categories of advertising that are most interesting to them, and commercials fitting the bill are inserted into TV shows and movies that are streamed via broadband onto TV screens. The service will only offered through an internet service provider.

U.S. cable, programmers set for Web TV by summer

Cable and satellite TV providers are working on a free online video service to deliver up-to-date cable shows to computers and mobile phones, but the industry is worried the project could cannibalize pay-TV’s long-standing revenue model. Full Story : Reuters…..

Digital TV transition takes effect Tuesday night

If you are using an analog TV and antenna to watch television, you will need to hook up a digital converter box in order to keep your picture from Tuesday night. Digital television (DTV) is the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by discrete (digital) signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV. The first country to make a wholesale switch to Digital Over-the-Air (terrestrial) broadcasting was the Netherlands, in 2006. This was followed by Finland and Sweden in 2007.

Adult Depression and TV

A new research finds that the number of hours we spend in front of TV determines how depressed we are as adults. The study was based on a study of 4 000 teenagers. The symptoms of depression, young people have developed in their 20s was directly related with the number of hours of exposure to television and other electronic media in their teens. The same association was found for exposure to other electronic media, the researchers noted. Isn’t it what they call reaping what you sow?

@ a glance : ABC tops Sunday primetime ratings

In the first Sunday primetime without pro football since late August, ABC captured the night with strong a two-hour performance of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and a repeat of “Desperate Housewives.” Full Story : variety…..

YouTube Launches TV Channel for Wii and PS3

YouTube began offering a new dedicated channel built for the browsers of the Wii and PS3 gaming systems. You Tube for Television, as it called let users to watch and share YouTube videos on any TV screen. YouTube is planning on making this new TV website available internationally across 22 geographies and in over 12 languages.

Sony’s Latest OLED TV Only 1 Millimeter Thin

OLED, Organic Light Emitting Diode. A new type of viewing screen. Can be viewed in bright lighting conditions, at greater angles, unlike LCD’s. It uses an organic material that emits its own light, so no back light is neede. Sony has unveiled a prototype OLED (organic light emitting diode) television at the Ceatec 2008 electronics expo in Japan. The TV measures just 0.9mm.

World’s Thinnest LCD HDTV

Sony unveiled a LCD High Definition TV with a 9.9 mm thickness, taking the crown as the world’s thinnest LCD HDTV. The model has a LED back lighting, 3,000:1 contrast ratio, 120Hz MotionFlow tech, x.v.color and BRAVIA Engine 2 image processing. It will be released in Japan on November 10th. Price? $4,500.

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Microsoft buys television ad Firm Navic

Navic developed a technology to deliver interactive ads on Television. Their ads are interactive overlays targeted by zip code to each cable subscriber. Microsoft Corp says it has purchased Navic Networks. Navic will join Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) Group, which is responsible for its digital media advertising platform. Google has already got into TV ads market through it AdWords program.

Future of Rear projection TVs.

Rear projection TV sales are on the decline. Market research studies show that in 2009, less than 1 percent of the TVs sold will be rear-projection sets. While Sony and Philips got out of that sector, Texas Instruments looking for ways to attract consumers from LCD TVs and Plasmas. It has developed a lightweight prototype set that is less than 7 inches deep to mimic the “hang on the wall” concept of LCDs. At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, the company displayed smaller chips that TV makers could use to create slimmer sets with brighter, high-contrast pictures and smoother motion in the images. It also showed — behind closed doors — projectors tiny enough to fit in a cellphone.

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