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3DTV Is Officially Never Going To Happen
That was it. That was 3DTV’s best chance. ESPN just decided to discontinue its push for 3DTV sporting events, deciding its time would be better spent focusing on traditional high resolution broadcasts and Tim Tebow daguerreotypes. And that, in a nutshell, effectively kills 3DTV’s chances of ever going mainstream.
HBO Picked Up That Silicon Valley TV Show That Might Be Good
We heard last year that HBO had greenlit a dark, single camera Silicon Valley comedy show pilot by Mike Judge (Office Space) but with the blink and you’ll miss it nature of TV pilots, you never know what’s going to happen until it hits the airwaves. Well, it’s going to air. Deadline reports that HBO has picked it up and ordered a series.
Nielsen Is Finally Including Online Viewers In Its TV Ratings
Nielsen, the company that determines whether or not your beloved television shows even matter, has been perching dangerously on the verge of irrelevancy for years — but all that’s about to change. After sitting idly by as internet viewership skyrocketed, Nielsen has finally decided to start taking note of the unhealthy amounts of time we spend curled up under the loving glow of a laptop screen.
The Death Of Analogue TV, Caught On Camera
Adelaide has this morning undergone its analogue TV switch-off, meaning that all of your elderly relatives have probably left messages for you asking why their TV doesn’t work anymore. It’s a digital-only world in the City Of Churches now, and a few enterprising folk captured the moment that the analogue signal died.
LG Curved 3D OLED Hands-On: An IMAX For Your House
LG just made the first curved 3D OLED screen. I just saw a crazy setup of three 55-inch beauties aligned side-by-side into a perfect cinematic curve. The effect is very dramatic. This could be the whole reason 3D and curved OLED exist.
Report: Intel’s TV Service Won’t Be Announced At CES, But More Details Emerge
Bad news for anyone who was excited for Intel to finally reveal its long-rumored set top box and TV service plans at CES next week. According to Janko Roettgers over at Gigaom, knowledgeable sources claim that Intel won’t be officially announcing its challenger to the Apple and Google TV at the show, but more tantalising details have emerged.
The TV Revolution Is Here, And It’s Led By… Intel?
Google tried it and failed. Microsoft’s spent years putting pieces in place with Xbox, but it hasn’t gotten there yet. And if you believe the rumours, Apple’s been working on it in secret for years. But the living room revolution we’ve been waiting for won’t be coming from the big three, according to a report from TechCrunch.
Reason #5482 That Smart TVs Are Dumb: They Can Get Hacked
Televisions with apps are already a little superfluous — the updates are slow, the interfaces are borish, they think you actually want to tweet from a 55-inch screen. But now it turns out that they’re also vulnerable to hackers. Great.
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