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Verizon Courts Cord-cutters with Newly-announced 5G Home Service with Free Apple TV or ChromecastSeptember 13, 2018Verizon recently announced the rollout of its 5G wireless home broadband service in the US, 5G Home, with orders opening September 13th, 2018 and launch beginning October 1st in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. The company is touting typical speeds of approximately 300 Mbps, peaking at 1 Gigabit, with no data caps. The service is priced at $50/month for existing Verizon subscribers, and $70/month for non-subscribers, and comes with three months of YouTube TV free. Subscribers also receive their choice of a free Google Chromecast Ultra or Apple TV 4K.Subscribers Only
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Onkyo Expands its High Resolution Music StoreFebruary 20, 2015Home AV hardware company Onkyo has launched a digital music store, Onkyo Music, in the UK, the US, and Germany. Onkyo Music offers “hundreds of thousands” of high resolution music tracks for purchase. The e-Onkyo music download service first launched in 2005 in Japan, and Onkyo Music is the company’s expansion of the concept. The store is a partnership with digital music specialist 7Digital, and is a download-to-own service with no streaming option. High resolution music is priced at $15-25 per album and $2-4 for single tracks, and the site allows search and download of lower-resolution CD-quality tracks as well. Onkyo is currently developing the Onkyo Music app for iOS and Android, and plans to allow files to be downloaded to multiple devices, whilst also being stored in a cloud locker.Subscribers Only
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Xbox One update: Microsoft’s march to control your living room continues forwardAugust 21, 2014At the 2014 Gamescom trade fair, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One would soon be updated in a number of ways, and detailed new features being rolled out first to members of its early access program. Most prominently discussed was the ability to stream live TV content from the Xbox One over the local network to smartphones and tablets running the Xbox SmartGlass app.Subscribers Only
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Google returns for round 3: Android TV makes its debutJuly 17, 2014With Android TV, Google is entering the OTT video market at the operating system level for the third time. While its previous two efforts revolved around a separate platform, Android TV represents the crystallization of a single, unified Android operating system – Android L – that no longer cleaves across separate hardware platforms.Subscribers Only
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Apple and Beats: Strategic Synergy or Questionable Value?June 11, 2014Apple is to buy Beats Electronics for $3 billion, which is not only the largest acquisition in the Cupertino-based company’s history, but also its most high-profile strategic investment to date. The deal comes after handset competitor HTC recently sold the remaining half of its $309 million, 50.1% controlling interest of Beats back to the company for $265 million in September 2013.
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Amazon’s Fire TV: suddenly, the streaming box market is a 3-way raceApril 03, 2014Fire TV, Amazon’s latest hardware venture and $99, Android-based over-the-top set-top box, is now shipping. Intended to compete against standalone devices from segment leaders Apple and Roku, Amazon’s device contains a robust hardware set, including a quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, dedicated GPU, dual-band MIMO Wi-Fi, and voice-enabled remote control.
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Roku launches new hardware lineup, adds M-GO serviceOctober 09, 2013Roku launched a new product lineup for 2013, along with announcing an agreement with M-GO.
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Broadband Technology Intelligence re-launchesSeptember 29, 2013Welcome to the new Broadband Technology Intelligence service. With this re-launch, we have significantly broadened Broadband Technology's geographic coverage, and tightened its focus. The new service is the...
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Sony Announces New PS Vita and PS Vita TV for JapanSeptember 12, 2013In the run up to the Tokyo Game Show, Sony took the opportunity to announce updates to its Vita branded products and confirm the launch date of the PS4 in Japan. It announced a new version of the PS Vita, the...Subscribers Only
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Sky launches Now TV boxAugust 07, 2013Sky has launched an inexpensive Roku-manufactured set-top box for use exclusively with its Now TV over-the-top (OTT) service. It's available directly from the Now TV website, priced at £9.99 (including...Subscribers Only
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Intel acquires Omek InteractiveJuly 29, 2013Intel recently announced it would acquire gesture control software developer Omek Interactive. Omek's Beckon and Grasp middleware works in conjunction with standard as well as depth sensing cameras to enable...Subscribers Only
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Samsung acquires BoxeeJuly 18, 2013Samsung Electronics recently announced it had acquired startup Boxee, Inc. for an undisclosed sum speculated to be less than $30 million. Boxee's best-known product was its trademark media center software,...
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Microsoft Targets Always-On Relevance With Xbox One's Integrated Entertainment SolutionMay 22, 2013Overall Positioning With the unveiling of Xbox One, Microsoft has put forward its vision for the evolution of its positioning of the Xbox platform as home entertainment hub, by building a hardware, software...Subscribers Only
