Samsung Electronics has introduced several of its products to the African market at the sixth annual Africa Forum in Antalya, Turkey which is a three-day forum. The main Interest for us here at Tizen Experts is the Samsung SUHD TVs that is being showcased there, as from 2015 onwards...
The days of streaming Netflix movies on your laptop in lieu of paying exorbitant prices to watch movies on your larger, preferable high-def hotel TV may be coming to an end, at least if you're staying at Marriott. The hotel chain will offer access to Netflix, as well as Hulu...
Television's latest upgrade, 4K Ultra High Definition, is both awesome and increasingly affordable. (See my earlier piece for details.) I just bought one on sale. Now I’m scrounging around to find something to watch.See also: 4K Ultra HD TV: How It Works And What You'll Need To Watch ItI’ve learned...
Televisions weren’t always smart. In fact, given how long people tend to hang on to their TVs, plenty of so-called “boob tubes” still dominate numerous living rooms across the country. Fortunately, you don't need a smart TV to tune into Netflix and other streaming services. All you really need is...
Google really, really wants Chromecast to get on your gift shopping list. So to sweeten the deal, the company just announced some brand new functionality for its $35 TV-streaming stick. Say hello to casual gaming and new premium channels.If you already own a Chromecast TV-streaming device, congratulations! You have a...
Disruption is overrated. Just ask Roku. The device maker doesn’t want to change the game; it likes its game just fine, thank you very much. And that’s why the streaming device maker hasn’t gone back to the drawing board with its very first lineup of smart TVs, announced late Tuesday...
Having appeased its core crowd of PlayStation gamers (so far, anyway), Sony is looking to cram everyone else into the proverbial living room—all while doling out more goodies to its devotees. At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the company revealed plans to release a new version of its PlayStation “micro-console”...
We were envious when Sony launched its vision of a mini-PlayStation (called the PlayStation Vita TV) in Japan last year. That curious, promising device has since evolved into the PlayStation TV, a $99 deck of cards-sized gaming console set to launch in North America later this year.The teensy PS TV is...
Despite Amazon’s lofty ambitions to reimagine the multimedia center, its Fire TV streaming box entered the streaming-video fray earlier this month with a frustrating, fractured search engine. Amazon is taking some steps to fix the Fire's flaws—but so far it's not close to solving its biggest problems.See also: Review: The...
I didn’t ask for games. I didn’t ask for photos. I asked for a streaming media solution that could do things right: Something easy to pick up, simple to use, and something that actually made the experience of playing and navigating through multimedia, dare I say it, fun.Amazon promised all...
Amazon has put Apple TV, Roku and Google's Chromecast in its crosshairs with its new Fire TV streaming device. See also: Amazon Fire TV Wants To Ignite The Streaming Experience—And It Just MightThe box comes with many of the standard Internet video features you'd expect from a modern set-top, along with some intriguing new...
Amazon took on the big boys of streaming television at its press event in New York City Wednesday morning. On a stage decked out like a living room, the company took the wraps off its top-secret project: the much-rumored—and now very real—Amazon Fire TV.See also: 10 Things You Need To Know...
Microsoft's Cortana personal assistant app adds item to calendars automatically.Windows Phone is about to get a whole lot more personal.Microsoft's smartphone operating system now has its own personal assistant. Just like Apple's Siri and Android's Google Now, Microsoft's "Cortana" is a voice activated-personal assistant to help users control their devices,...
Amazon just unveiled its TV set-top box—and it’s called Amazon Fire TV.Fire TV features a quad-core processor and a dedicated GPU, as well as 2 GB of RAM for a smooth interface and fast-launching applications and videos. Fire TV also features dual-band Wi-Fi with MIMO, so applications and videos start...
Soon you may be able to mirror what's on your Android smartphone or tablet to your television through Chromecast.Google's Chromecast television streaming dongle has become a bit of a cult hit. At $35, it is one of the cheapest over-the-top media streamers on the market, can connect to virtually any...
If you believe the hype around the Consumer Electronics Show, 4K television is all the rage. TV makers have long hoped to spark demand for so-called ultra HD televisions, and this time around, they’re trying to ensure it by packaging the sets with some nifty new features. The big question is...
ReadWriteShop is an occasional series about the intersection of technology and commerce.Sure, you can stream Netflix shows or movies on your laptop or tablet. But if you've got a big screen TV sitting in your living room, chances are you'd like to use it. And that's where streaming TV devices come...
Google may not be making us stupid, but it's sure as heck making it harder for me to keep my kids off the TV. Or, rather, the computer, phone or tablet that today doubles as a TV. Growing, I remember "that rich kid" who had a TV in his room. Now...
The web's thriving metropolis of video weirdness will soon host its very own real, live award show: The YouTube Music Awards. The event, coming on November 3, will take place on stage in New York and will be livestreamed around the world, in true YouTube fashion. Hosted by indie film darling...
Americans watch about 40 hours of television every single week. Even in the Internet Age, television remains a cultural force, a unifying voice and quite possibly our chief storyteller. Do not view this as bad. A number of television programs over the decades have not only been great, but inspirational for...
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