Tag archive: ITV

Buzz surrounding Apple’s iTV has not let up in recent months, and as time wears on, more details are beginning to emerge. On Tuesday, The Globe and Mail revealed that the product may already be in the hands of Canadian cable stations, and will feature remote-less capabilities, exhibiting functionalities similar to Siri and Microsoft’s Kinect. After Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography revealed that the late Apple founder had finally… Read More

The Apple iTV has become something of a controversy: while its existence has yet to be confirmed and Tim Cook wrote off the Apple TV as a “hobby” in the company’s latest earnings call, pundits and fanboys have joyfully been debating its hypothetical impact. But now some hints [via The Verge] about the product have come from a fairly unlikely source. A recent Best Buy customer interest survey teased something that sounds a lot like what we’ve… Read More

The rumors have been strong about Apple's TV concept coming to market in the near future, but like usual, we have nothing from the company to confirm whether or not those plans are really in the making. According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple has indeed been contacting component suppliers, which has led Munster to believe that an Apple-branded TV set could land in 2012. In a letter [via Forbes] on January 31, Munster told… Read More

The iPhone 4S isn’t quite as shiny and new as it was a mere month ago, and in the wake of its now-normalcy come new iPhone 5 rumors. Up until now we’ve been able to gather that the next-gen iPhone will sport a new design, larger display, and that it might be a 4G capable. Now BGR says it has inside information that the iPhone 5 will be launched in the fall of 2012, and that the new phone will not only have a different look but a different feel.… Read More

Speculation surrounding the Apple iTV has continued to swell, and now DigiTimes says the rumored Internet television is on track to be released before the end of next year. “The supply chain of Apple will start prepping materials for iTV sets in the first quarter of 2012 in order to meet Apple’s schedule to launch the new display products in the second or third quarter of 2012,” says the site. Earlier this month we heard that Apple was busy… Read More

Apple has begun making concrete moves towards its living room invasion, reports the Wall Street Journal. The news comes via anonymous sources briefed on Apple's meetings with various “media executives.” Like Apple TV, the Cupertino, California-based company's marginalized video streaming box, the rumored iTV (as it's being called) will also allow users to download video, and likely stream content from the Internet.… Read More

Didn’t have time to keep up with every ripple in the technology pond this week? We’ve got you covered. Here are some of the most noteworthy stories from the last week. Consumer Reports gives us the low-down on U.S. carrier winners and losers This week we learned which U.S. cell phone carriers have the best customer satisfaction and which carriers aren't doing so hot. Consumer Reports gave a full rundown on the carriers and where they both… Read More

As expected, the Apple iTV rumors are continuing to trickle out from all over the globe. Today's rumor comes courtesy of Australian tech site Smarthouse, which claims to have a scoop on the details of the supposedly upcoming Apple iTV, which the site says will come in three sizes, starting at 32-inches and going up to 55-inch, according to “Sources at a major Japanese company who are involved in manufacturing the TV.” The… Read More

Its relationship with Samsung in tatters, Apple is reportedly working with Sharp to develop the rumored iTV, reports Mashable, citing claims by Jefferies analyst peter Misek. According to Misek, Sharp is building TFT LCD panels for the so-called iTV, a device that still remains mostly a mystery — in fact, there has so far been no evidence that Apple has plans to release a full-blown television anytime soon. But Misek says that the iTV could be… Read More

We just barely made it through the iPhone 5/iPhone 4S rumor mill alive, and we've already fallen into another bottomless pit of speculation, only this time it's about a television. That's right, the so-far mythical “iTV.” If you've been paying any attention at all over the past week, the tech press — us included — have begun salivating over what some believe is the last immaculate creation of late… Read More

It hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for Google TV. Not long ago it was reported that sales of the streaming sets were being overshadowed by returns, and that Google planned a revamp to regain some of this lost ground. Logitech was losing faith in the product, and it didn’t appear that Google was having any easier of a time getting TV networks on board. But Google TV will not be closing its doors—far from it. Former CEO and now chairman Eric… Read More

In the wake of Steve Jobs’ resignation, rumors that Apple is planning to produce a branded television have begun to circulate. This particular Apple TV would be an actual screen television set, not the Apple TV set-top box for streaming content that’s currently on the market. It would appear that there are various pieces to an Apple TV puzzle that are beginning to line up, and this entire product might be more than a fanboy's pipe dream.… Read More

In addition to all the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 rumors swirling around this morning, another report says that Apple has a full television set in the works that will run on its mobile operating system, iOS. That rumor comes via Daily Tech, who spoke with a “former executive” of Apple on a condition of anonymity. Apple plans to “blow Netflix and all those other guys away,” says the source, with its own television set that… Read More

Apple could soon debut a cloud-based video service that will have “far reaching” implications for the television industry, says Jefferies & Co analyst Peter Misek. The purported launched could bring both new subscription services and new hardware that will amount to nothing less than an “assault on the living room” as we know it. “In addition to subscription revenues, we think Apple could potentially benefit… Read More

Of all the rumors we’ve heard about tomorrow’s alleged Apple TV unveil, the latest seems by far the least ambitious. And perhaps because of that, the most believable. According to Bloomberg, the revamped Apple TV will sport – drumroll please – Netflix streaming. Bloomberg cites two anonymous sources “with knowledge of the plans,” who also confirmed earlier rumors that it would sell for $99. While that may represent a massive price drop from the… Read More