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'Personal TV' Gets Major Endorsement In US
News Interactive TV, which has failed to garner popularity in the past, gained a modicum of inevitability -- in the U.S.at least -- on Tuesday, when eight major media companies signalled support for "personal TV" device maker TiVo Inc.with equity...
[July 28, 1999, 10:45]
Personal TV Studio
Downloads A multimedia development kit for digital graphic professionals and hobbyists alike. Draw paint and animate, edit photographs, thumbnails, screen capture, video enhancements, morf, fade, stationery creater, Print and Faxmaster Plus, etc.
[March 15, 2006, 8:46]
TiVo Comes To London
News TiVo, the personal TV device maker, announced on Tuesday an agreement with television service provider, British Sky Broadcasting (quote: BSY) to bring personal television to the United Kingdom. Personal TV uses a PC-like hard drive to search out TV...
[March 1, 2000, 9:51]
OnlineTVSoft
Downloads OnlineTVSoft is the new generation software designed to transform your personal computer into a super TV with hundreds of Live TV Channels without installing a new hardware or plugging a new wire into your PC.
[April 9, 2008, 23:46]
Interactive TV: It's Watching You
News Privacy advocates warned consumers Tuesday of burgeoning dangers posed by the interactive TV industry, where companies are planning to collect massive amounts of personal data. According to a report released Tuesday from the nonprofit Center for...
[June 27, 2001, 11:46]
British TV Bans 'fastest' Mac G5
News British TV regulators have banned an ad for Apple Computer's Power Mac G5, saying its claim to the title "world's fastest personal computer" is not fully supported. The Apple UK page does not have a clip of the TV ad in question and includes an...
[November 12, 2003, 9:50]
IDF: Intel And Sonicblue Show Off Portable Video Player
News The unnamed unit, around 25 by 10 by 5 centimetres in size, has a four-inch colour LCD screen, a 20GB PC Card hard disk and lithium batteries: it loads movies through USB 2.0 or Ethernet and integrates closely with the company's Replay TV hard...
[September 10, 2002, 8:30]
Media Center Will Succeed, Just Not Yet
News What the Web did for information on PCs, the personal media server could eventually do for TV and music in the living room. Microsoft is promoting its Windows Media Center Extender devices as the easiest way to get music, photos and video from a...
[October 13, 2004, 14:25]
It's War Once Again! The Coming Fight For The Soul Of A New Machine
News Consider this year's Comdex: Among the typically PC-oriented show, Web watches, personal TV recorders, InfoSticks, and, even network computers all made appearances. I think our job is to make the technology invisible to the consumer," said Mark...
[November 23, 1999, 8:37]
Interactive TV Is Success Story For The UK
News The initial challenge for TiVo in the UK will be educated consumers on DVR and the benefits of personal TV," he says. Nearly four million households will have interactive TV by the end of the year according to research firm IDC confirming that the...
[October 31, 2000, 15:29]
Linux: Belle Of Info Appliances?
News In the same way that consumers consider 3Com's Palm organiser a device and not an OS, most consumers only care about the personal TV service, not what OS runs the "applications. For instance, personal TV maker TiVo's personal video recorder...
[January 31, 2000, 8:37]
New PCs Restrict Copying
News So a consumer could use Sony's GigaPocket Personal Video Recorder software to record a TV show, convert the file to MPEG-2 video with another Sony application and burn the program to a DVD. There is good strong case law, mainly the Sony Betamax...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
Not Good News
Talkback Firstly from a professional point of view as a Sound Engineer, and a personal point of view. This story is about the situation in America, but OFCOM the government watchdog that looks after spectrum in the UK is wanting to do something similar when...
[December 4, 2007, 22:13]
Homes Shelter More Mobile Devices
News The mobile device users surveyed by IDC said 36 percent of their personal calls from home are made from a cellphone and their monthly expenditure on mobile phone service is higher than spending on either broadband, cable or satellite TV, or...
[December 17, 2003, 10:00]
Consumers Face Digital TV Privacy Threat
News Web users have grown used to the idea that companies collect information about their online habits as a price for providing them with all that free content -- but now TV viewers will have to grapple with the same issues.
[March 27, 2001, 17:15]
TiVo Shares Rocket On AOLTV Pact
News America Online will develop a set-top box featuring personal television services from TiVo, the companies said Wednesday. The deal would give subscribers of AOLTV, an interactive television service, the ability to program their own TV schedule.
[June 14, 2000, 13:54]
US Report: Interactive-TV Deals In The Works
News Is America Online, fresh from its blockbuster deal with Netscape, poised to offer its online services through cable TV? The online-service giant, with some 14 million subscribers, earlier this year acquired NetChannel, an ill-fated WebTV rival...
[December 2, 1998, 6:10]
Yahoo Ups Its Mobile Game
News Yahoo looks likely to announce on Friday that its email, instant messenger, photo and other services will be available on mobile phones and Internet-connected TVs, as well as on personal computers without using a browser.
[January 6, 2006, 8:30]
Domain Names Get Rock 'n' Roll With .mu
News Users can also register for a personal domain name, such as johnsmith.mu. The effort has the unmistakable glitz of a former television "marketing architect" who claims his work at TV production house King World helped Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy...
[December 7, 2000, 9:23]
New Microsoft Gadget Set For Debut
News Microsoft will demonstrate on Monday a tablet-shaped device that will serve as a bridge between the TV, the PC and the company's .Net services, according to sources familiar with the plans. One or more tablets become the way to schedule TV...
[January 7, 2002, 10:27]
