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Amazon.com Helps TV Fans Discover More Content with New TV Show Stores

With television fans gearing up for the new fall season, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of a new TV shows destination with 500 new stores devoted to customer favorite TV series and kids' programming (www.amazon.com/yourfavoriteshowstore). As a convenient, one-stop destination for all things related to a particular TV show, the stores will help customers: learn more about the shows they love through video clips; find new favorite shows through summaries and bonus cast interview videos; and view episodes from Amazon Video On Demand (www.amazon.com/vod), Amazon's digital video service where customers can now instantly watch ad-free TV shows and movies on their computers.

Internet TV: watch this space

The British internet TV market could generate revenues of Ł1.78bn by 2011, according to research carried out by technology company Alcatel-Lucent. Although the industry is in its infancy, several British companies, including TV website Joost, already offer TV over the internet, and BT Vision, the pay-TV arm of the telecoms giant, uses broadband connections to deliver shows to customers' TV sets. Faster internet connections have already popularised some internet shows, including Kate Modern, made by social networking site Bebo.

AT&T Plans iPhone Integration With U-verse TV Services

New York - AT&T (NYSE: T) plans to allow owners of Apple (NASD: AAPL) iPhones to use the devices to control features on its U-verse broadband and digital TV service, Reuters reported. In addition to allowing the iPhone to act as TV remote control, DVR recordings will be transferrable to the device. U-verse subscribers will also be able to listen to their voice mail via their TV screens, and use the iPhone "for entertainment purposes like virtually hurling tomatoes at the TV screen," according to Reuters.

Google TV Ads Platform Adds Bloomberg TV to U.S. Inventory

NEW YORK & MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA . – Continuing efforts to make television advertising more relevant, accountable and measurable, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® network will make national cable advertising time in the U.S. available through the Google TV Ads™ platform. By offering self-service buying opportunities through Google TV Ads, the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION network will expand its reach to a wider range of advertisers, including those that are new to the medium.

Amazon.com Helps TV Fans Discover More Content with New TV Show Stores

SEATTLE - (Business Wire) With television fans gearing up for the new fall season, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of a new TV shows destination with 500 new stores devoted to customer favorite TV series and kids

Hitachi and Matsushita Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Enhancing Cooperation in Flat-Panel TV and Display Panel for TV Businesses

Hitachi and Matsushita Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Enhancing Cooperation in Flat-Panel TV and Display Panel for TV Businesses(PDF Type, 25kbytes)

i.TV Launches Movie and TV Guide for the iPhone and iPod touch

i.TV makes it easy to discover television and movie programming options, share entertainment information with friends, and access media anywhere you can take an iPhone or iPod touch,

TV-B-Gone SHP Looks Like an iPhone, and We Will Not Take the Bait

OK, so the new TV-B-Gone SHP (super high power) is designed to look like an iPhone. It appears to be designed just for us here at Gizmodo, embodying two things that, for better or for worse, we're known for. But no matter what this thing looks like, there ain't no way we're getting within 10 feet of a TV-B-Gone again. Even if it is an upgraded model with eight powerful infrared emitters that can turn off 90% of the world's TVs. No. No, ma'am. [Maker Shed via Ubergizmo]

Digisoft.tv's John Allen on Interactive Television

Sun Microsystems and DigiSoft.tv have each explored using Java technology to address the challenges related to content development for the IP-based interactive TV market. Developers face tough challenges writing and deploying applications for existing proprietary middleware platforms.

Play TV for PS3 clocks in at 70

Sony has once again confirmed that Play TV for the PS3 – which turns your gaming hub into a TV tuner – will drop next month, for the stripped down price of £69.99.

5th TV DVD Award Nominees Announced

Is your DVD collection stocked with TV box sets? Do you have every season of “Seinfeld,” or are you more of a 70s “Sanford and Son” or “Dukes of Hazzard” type who loves the nostalgia? Bought any of the TV Blu-ray sets yet?

Blinkx Launches TV Search Service

Blinkx_2Blinkx launched a TV search service today, Blinkx Remote, which has indexed 11,000 episodes of roughly 1,000 TV shows including Gossip Girl, South Park and Arrested Development.

Report:LCD-TV to dominate consumer electronics market...

The Global LCD-TV market is expected to become the dominant segment in the consumer-electronics industry by 2012, according to an iSuppli report. Strong continued growth is anticipated for the industry in the coming years, even through difficult economic situations, as analyst Sheri Greenspan said "consumers want their electronics, in good times and in bad." LCD-TV revenue is even set to exceed the strong numbers from appliances, a segment that has held the top position for years.

Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment

Tele2 Does Mobile TV

STOCKHOLM -- Rubberduck Media Lab, a leading provider of white label mobile TV services, has now launched a comprehensive mobile TV service in Estonia for Tele2. Rubberduck is a subsidiary to the stock listed Aspiro group (STO:ASP) , which is the Scandinavian market leader within mobile services.

Tele2 and Rubberduck launch Mobile TV services in Estonia

Rubberduck Media Lab, a provider of white label mobile TV services, has launched a comprehensive mobile TV service in Estonia for local mobile operator Tele2.

New Windows Mobile Handset Especially Created for Mobile TV

Axel Technologies, a Finnish company that develops mobile TV-related software and technologies, has recently announced a new handset, presented as the very first "Java-enabled multi-standard mobile TV phone." Created in collaboration with Inventec (the Taiwanese manufacturer behind another new mobile device, namely Velocity 103) and RollTech Technology (a Java solution provider from Taiwan), the handset is called IAC S875 and it runs on Windows Mobile.

Sony to Launch Thinnest-Ever LCD TV

Sony has announced that it will soon release a new 40-inch LCD TV that will be the thinnest ever produced. According to Reuters, the TV, known as the ZX1, will come out in Japan in November, with “overseas launches” expected not long after that.

Panasonic introduces world biggest 103 inches Plasma TV

JALANDHAR: Japanese Electronics giant Panasonic has introduced its new range of Plasma and LCD TV by launching the huge 103 inch Plasma TV in the market of Punjab.

LG Electronics inaugurates 2nd Generation TV

LG Electronics, a leading global brand, has further aligned ts operations to care for the health of Nigerians with the introduction of free mosquito nets in its 21ˇ± TV (21FU6R), known as the ˇ±Nigeria TVˇ±.

0.33mm Sony OLED TV Revealed

In a game of OLED one upmanship Sony has unveiled a prototype OLED (organic light emitting diode) television that's less than a millimeter thin. The actual sixe of the TV is 0.9mm thick while the panel is 0.3mm thick which is two thirds smaller than their 11" OLED TV which is currently on sale in the USA, Europe and Japan.

Hitachi, Matsushita MOU Strengthens Flat-Panel TV, Display Panel Businesses

Hitachi Ltd and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance cooperation with the goal of further promoting and strengthening the flat-panel TV and display panel for TV businesses.

iTunes 8 to bring HD TV, auto playlist making?

iTunes 8 will be the first version of Apple's desktop software to allow HD purchases, if a further leak from Digg head Kevin Rose proves accurate. A purported excerpt from the upgrade notes to the software mentions users having the option of downloading TV episodes in "HD quality," suggesting the software will be the first from Apple to offer any kind of purchasable HD content outside of the Apple TV and that HD will extend beyond the movie-only options available today.


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