Samsung also announced that it would make a Google TV set and a set-top box, both of which can run Adobe's software but not Hulu's.
With a stunning 8-inch screen, the RCA Mobile TV Tablet is both a portable TV set and a fully functional high-definition Android touchscreen tablet with Wi-Fi, dual cameras, and GPS functionality.
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"Digital TV uses the same picture quality as a current TV set - it's just the receiver that will be different, " said Which? in its April report.
TeleCruz designs a system-on-a-chip that equips a TV set's innards with modest e-mail and Web capabilities without the need for fancy external electronics.
For remote controls and game controllers, this enables the MotionEngine to run on the controller, on a USB dongle, or directly on a TV or set-top box system-on-a-chip (SoC).
To do this, you will need an ATSC tuner (ether built-in to the TV or a set-top box style) and an antenna.
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But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
In April, the company expanded its product line by adding Xiaomi TV, a set-top box similar to Apple TV.
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The Peerless drive, for instance, which uses big cartridges that hold up to 20 gigabytes of data, might be useful for in-car digital audio players or as a removable drive for storing video in a TiVo -like TV set-top box.
Besides obviously needing a CableCard-ready TV set (most new digital HDTVs have to have CableCard slots), there are a few downsides, like you can't access your cable company's onscreen programming guide and you can't order pay-per-view or video-on-demand programming (at least not using your remote), but the real deal killer for us is that you won't be able to use it with a digital video recorder.
Since the iPhone and iPad can wirelessly stream content to a TV attached to an Apple TV set-top box, why not extend this capability, muses Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes.
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This would be for a full on Apple TV, rather than a set-top box.
OnLive a cloud service that streams console games to your computer or to your TV through a micro set-top box is going way, way past games.
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It sports a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, as much as you'd find on a high-definition TV set.
The tablet can't display 3-D on its screen, but like the phone, the G-Slate can be connected to a 3-D TV set.
Then all you need to do is go to Flingo.org and get a few lines of embed code to put on your web site, and owners of a Flingo-enabled TV set will be able to send your video to their TV with one click.
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With it, the console's touch-screen GamePad controller becomes a remote control for your TV and set-top box.
Steven Sasson invented the digital camera itself, starting at Kodak in the 1970s with an eight-and-a-half-pound box connected to a magnetic tape drive and a TV set, which produced a .01 megapixel image.
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The fight over a precious piece of turf in the Digital Age -- the top of an American tv set -- is about to get a lot rougher.
The model was already well known in South Africa but was seen as being on the verge of a new career, with her appearance in a pre-recorded reality TV show set to start on Saturday.
Chief Executive Steven Pearse grandly predicts that Cyras could be worth 20 times that by the summer debut of its first product, a box no bigger than a TV set doing the work of a half-dozen large routers and phone switches.
What might be more unsettling to exhibit visitors is how nostalgic they might feel for the accoutrements that dot the recreated Westwood-McLaren's Kings Road shop, Clothes for Heroes, in London, including a heavy-handset telephone, cassette tape and big-box TV set.
Thomas Jayne, a New York designer, finds that younger Type-A clients often welcome an aggressively prominent TV set.
The typical American couch spud already has a number of "boxes" attached to his television set: A VCR, a cable-TV decoder box and perhaps a videogame console like a Sony PlayStation.
The problem is the other half, Motorola Mobility, a maker of mobile phones and TV set-top boxes.
In addition to the traditional Motorola set-top business, the company offers Google TV, a software platform offered through OEMs via both televisions and after-market set-top boxes, to integrate content from cable and the open Internet.
The past ten years have seen a parade of websites and set-top boxes Apple TV, Boxee, Joost, Roku offering a huge range of content and interactive features.
Boxee TV is a set top box with a built in antennae to capture over-the-air TV signals as well as the ability to stream video from the internet such as from Netflix and YouTube, which is owned by Google.
Gabe Gagliano predicts a March reboot of the Apple TV box-top set.
The VGE didn't really show its stuff until we wired it, and the PlayStation 2, to a 1993-vintage 20-inch Sharp TV set.
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