My TV on .tv!

Entertainment has taken a complete new shape with the arrival of Internet. Having fun as per your own convenience is possible as all he modes of enjoyment is just one click away.

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Back in January, we talked about Skype’s idea to go beyond computers and mobile phones. During CES in Las Vegas, the company unveiled plans to integrate its VoIP service into TV sets and right from the bat, it found partners in Panasonic (NYSE: PC) and LG.

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The most hyped home-electronics product in years — 3-D TV — has arrived. Quietly. On Thursday, Amazon.com began selling Samsung 46-inch…

Samsung's 46-inch and 55-inch TVs that are capable of showing 3-D programming.

The most hyped home-electronics product in years — 3-D TV — has arrived. Quietly.

On Thursday, Amazon.com began selling Samsung 46-inch and 55-inch TVs that are capable of showing 3-D programming.

The prices for the LED-backlit sets are $2,600 and $3,300, respectively — a premium of as much as 20 percent over Samsung’s comparable, non 3-D sets.

Sears.com, Onecall.com and other retailers also have the Samsung 3-D sets available for pre-order.

A spokesman for Best Buy, the largest home-electronics chain in the U.S., said the 3-D sets will be in its stores by mid-March.

But one big thing is missing: content.

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Wireless operators and the FCC agree that consumer demand for Apple iPhones and other smart Web-enabled devices will strain spectrum resources in the near future.

As the FCC prepares to present its National Broadband Plan recommendations to Congress on March 17, many TV broadcasters are keenly aware that its recommendations regarding spectrum reallocation could have a direct impact on their future business success.

At the very moment more than 30 broadcasters have deployed Mobile DTV channels within their 6MHz channel allotments in an effort to gain experience, learn how viewers respond and let consumer electronics companies test receiver performance, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has proposed asking TV broadcasters to voluntarily relinquish spectrum in exchange for a portion of a future spectrum auction to avert what he has characterized as a looming shortage of spectrum for wireless broadband service.

Plagued by years of a declining over-the-air audience, many TV broadcasters have looked to Mobile DTV to re-vitalize their businesses. Not only could Mobile DTV let them more profitably monetize their RF infrastructures, but more importantly it has the potential to attract significant new ad dollars and create greater revenue. 

Two years ago, a study commissioned by the NAB and conducted by BIA Financial Network found Mobile DTV would generate $2 billion in new ad revenue –more than $1 billion of which would fill station coffers. In a market that saw spot TV ad spending decline an average of 15 percent last year, the significance of the potential revenue from Mobile DTV service becomes all the more important.

A lot can change in two years, however. The popularity of Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s Blackberry and other Web-enable smart phones among consumers has mobile operators increasingly concerned about meeting future demand, which relies on having access to more spectrum. In October 2009, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski told a wireless industry gathering in San Diego his agency recognizes their concerns and has a goal of “unleashing spectrum for 4G mobile broadband.”

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Ah, video and search. Frank Sinatra said it best: Try, try, try to separate them – it’s an illusion. Here’s proof of that: Speech Technology. This week, Google sealed the deal on video search capabilities for its YouTube portal, saying it would provide auto-captions for all of its uploaded videos using proprietary Google’s Speech Technology.

Google’s initiative, piloted in November, began with a handful of partner channels including PBS, Stanford University and National Geographic. It has now expanded to all uploaded English-speaking videos, with more languages to be added later this year.

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Get ready for a revolutionary service that searches the world wide web for programmes to add to your television line-up

(Niall McDiarmid) - An electronic programme guide for the internet age

The outfit that has already revolutionised the way we watch television is about to do the same thing again. TiVo, the US company that invented the personal video recorder (PVR), has unveiled a service that for the first time marries the live broadcast of a TV show with the potentially huge amount of extras found for it on the internet. The technology will be available in Britain within months.

Last week InGear had a private trial of the new service, to be called TiVo Premiere, on the 66th floor of the Rockefeller Center in New York. Operated through a single set-top box wired into a broadband connection, and a remote control with a flip-out Qwerty keypad, it is an electronic programme guide for the internet age.

Onscreen you see the familiar layout of channels and shows. Click on a programme and you can record it or add a series link to save all future episodes, just as if you were using the sort of PVR that TiVo pioneered in 2000 and that appeared as Sky+ soon afterwards. What the new service adds is a “discovery bar” at the top of the screen, giving you the choice of viewing past episodes as well as bonus content such as character profiles and behind-the-scenes documentaries. The clever part is, all these extras are actually being downloaded or streamed from the internet but because they blend together seamlessly with the broadcast material, you wouldn’t know.

“Broadband and broadcast are integrated,” is how Tom Rogers, the company’s chief executive, describes the feature during the launch, “and the user doesn’t need to know how. This is the next revolution in television.”

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Exhausting all possible avenues of growth, top mobile operator Smart Communications has turned its attention on the television space to expand its  wireless Internet business.

The carrier recently introduced a new service, called SurfTV, which enables a TV set to be connected to the Internet via a set-up box.

Incidentally, Smart’s parent company, PLDT, had recently acquired acquiring local television station TV5.

Smart officials, led by chief wireless advisor Orlando Vea, touted the new offering as the “first in the Philippines” and perhaps “first in the world.” However, a small IT company attempted – but ultimately failed – in 2002 to offer a cable Internet-powered TV service.

One of the reasons cited for the failure is the theory that TV is mainly for public use, while PC is inherently private in nature.

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