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Posted on May 28, 2009 by emily at 12:02 pm
WELLESLEY, MA–(Marketwire – May 28, 2009) – Frame Media Inc., the company that is defining the content experience on wireless digital photo frames and other new types of connected display devices, today announced that it has added content from Twitter, CNET, and Eventful to its free FrameChannel® (www.framechannel.com) service.
Together, these popular content brands are providing [...]
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CNET, connected device, d-link, Eventful, Frame Media, FrameChannel, internet tv, Kodak, samsung, twitter, Wireless Digital Photo Frame, wireless digital picture frame
Posted on Apr 6, 2009 by Sam Costello at 4:25 am
When a category of topic becomes a central focus of an industry conference, you know that idea’s time has come. I’ve been covering the growing convergence of streaming web media (video, photos, news, music) with consumer electronics in the living room for months on this site (witness the pile of posts about connected TVs, Netflix-enabled [...]
Posted on Mar 11, 2009 by Sam Costello at 2:54 am
Information appliance maker Chumby is teaming with chipmaker Broadcom for a hardware play that will add Chumby’s widgets to living room electronics.
Broadcom is one of the leading makers of chips for all kinds of electronics and will, under this deal, add support for Chumby’s widgets to its system-on-a-chip offerings that go into HDTVs, Blu-ray players, [...]
Posted on Mar 4, 2009 by Sam Costello at 2:42 am
If you live outside Europe and want to enjoy some the sleek, media-player goodness that LaCie is offering to folks in the EU, you are out of luck: the LaCie Black MAX set top box isn’t available in your market.
Here’s hoping that changes soon. The Black MAX is a set top box with a 500GB [...]
Posted on Jan 30, 2009 by Sam Costello at 2:37 am
Furthering the integration between TVs and Internet-delivered content, Sony has added support for the Slacker Radio music streaming service to its Bravia Internet Video Link. The Sony Bravia Internet Link is a hardware/service combination that allows users to deliver web-based content to their Sony Bravia HDTVs.
Slacker Personal Radio is a service that allows users to [...]
Posted on Jan 13, 2009 by Sam Costello at 2:09 am
Among LG’s CES announcements from earlier this month were two devices that make clear that the Korean consumer electronics company has seen the future of living room entertainment and has decided it lives on the web.
The first devices, which made the bigger splash, is a line of HDTVs that include Netflix Watch Instantly streaming built [...]