Who isn't concerned about which sports broadcasts will dominate evening television viewing in 21st-century American households: L.A. Dodgers vs.
ConnecTV is the only social network that works across all channels and all shows for both real-time and time-shifted television viewing.
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According to Nielsen, 19 percent of Netflix users now use the service primarily for television viewing, up from 11 percent in 2011.
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The company's main subscription service now streams movies and TV shows to any device with a high-speed connection, freeing consumers from the shackles of conventional television viewing.
Pediatricians could be focusing on recommending less television viewing, for instance, and more physical activity, as well as advising parents to limit children's consumption of juices and sugar-sweetened beverages.
But 2006 will be the year where video over the internet is complementary to our television viewing, as most of it will still be consumed on our PCs and laptops.
Combined with the pennant races in Major League Baseball and sundry other sports, it is a cornucopia of sports participation and television viewing designed to lift the spirits of even the most casual fan.
Sport and stars notwithstanding, ratings are likely to go on falling, not just because of new television services, but also because television viewing is falling as children and teenagers increasingly spend time on computer games and the Internet.
However, if the original Wii set a bar for intuitive control of a wide range of video games, TVii takes once TV-shy Nintendo and puts it in the driver's seat when it comes to defining a console's second-screen approach to television viewing and interaction.
Television viewing figures are rising only slowly from low levels, but Mr Beckham's star power has helped legitimise the league, encouraging other stars to follow (such as Thierry Henry of France) and leading to an influx of investment in new clubs in Seattle, Portland and, in Canada, Toronto and Vancouver.
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People have greater access to knowledge today than ever before in the history of the human race, yet they increasingly isolate themselves based on their ideologies, fears and, ironically, television-viewing habits.
Sanyo's latest Internet-ready television set offers split-screen viewing, with a television programme on one side and Internet material on the other.
That marks a major turnaround for the French site, which doesn't limit the length of clips and has become a go-to spot for users uploading and viewing entire television shows and movies.
In an era of declining ratings and time-shifted viewing, Super Bowl Sunday is the only major television event left where real-time viewing is a must.
For late-night viewing, Iraqi television prefers films with a topical message.
For easy operation while viewing movies or television, the system offers an advanced multi-language on-screen display that overlays onto HD and 3D video signals to depict system control and setup prompts.
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That's the demand by local golfers, after viewing the Masters on television, for conditions equally lush, even in places where water and other resources are scarce and their use may be environmentally unsound.
To the extent that people watch broadcast television anymore--as opposed to viewing it over the Web on sites like Hulu--it's invariably through some form of a TiVo-like device.
"The clarity and brilliance of UltraHD television is a significant step forward in viewing enjoyment and is the next true evolution in TV innovation, " said Dan Marotta, Broadcom's Executive Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Communications Group.
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"Ultra-definition television will transform the giant-screen viewing experience in the years ahead, and LG is proud to bring this new technology to market so that discerning U.S. consumers can enjoy a fully immersive home theater experience, " said Jay Vandenbree, senior vice president, home entertainment, LG Electronics USA, Inc.
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In Britain, says David Brennan, who heads research in the country for Flextech, a broadcaster, children in homes with cable or satellite television now spend two-thirds of their viewing time watching something other than the over-the-air networks, compared with just over one-third for adults.
The living room television has long been the center of household content viewing, and with more capable smart TVs content will shift from broadcast programming to viewing that is more interactive.
Evidence shows that, rather than eroding the broadcasters' viewing figures still further, letting people watch television programmes on portable devices increases audiences for their terrestrial programming generally.
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The purchase positions Google for the biggest merger of all: from the television big screen that sucks up nearly 5 hours of viewing each day (versus 10 minutes of video viewing any other way and only 12 minutes on Facebook on average per FB user) to ogling the small screens on computers, tablets and smartphones.
To date, the largest viewing audience for a single World Series game on television occurred in 1980 when 54.9 million tuned in for Game Six between the Phillies and the Royals.
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Not least, Google needs to cozy up to the operators if only to get access to the valuable data on customer viewing habits, so it can target ads on television as well as it does on the Web.
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It also includes a feature that enables television recordings to be transferred over WiFi to an iPad for later viewing.
And when the App syncs with the Blu-ray Disc through a connected player, users can "sling" select content from the Sony Tablet or iPad to the television screen to watch it in full HD, for a greater viewing experience.
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As more people watch television online, Apple will be in a strong position to manage that viewing.
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