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Ensequence and Civolution announce automatic content recognition

Ensequence and Civolution have announced an automatic content recognition (ACR) product integration to enable the synchronisation of TV content with interactive content on connected devices including tablets and smartphones. The integrated solution consisting of Civolution’s watermarking technology and Ensequence’s iTV Manager platform identifies what viewers are watching on their televisions or PCs and enables programmers […]

December 1, 2011

Verizon FiOS on Xbox

US telco Verizon is to make a selection of live, FiOS TV channels available over the Xbox 360 Entertainment System. Through a collaboration between Verizon and Microsoft, customers who are Xbox LIVE Gold members and who subscribe to both FiOS TV and Internet service will be able to view select live channels through their Xbox […]

November 30, 2011

Lenovo plans Smart TV

As revealed by advanced-television.com in March, Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo Group has confirmed that it is to launch a Smart TV product, dubbed ‘LeTV’ as well introducing a new cloud-computing strategy, as it seeks to diversify and meet the growing demand for Internet-connected devices. The company, which overtook Dell in Q3 to become the world’s […]

November 30, 2011By Colin Mann

Connected TV marketing trade body established

Leaders of the advertising, media and entertainment sector have converged in New York, London and Melbourne for the inauguration of the Connected TV Marketing Association (CTVMA), the global industry trade body of the advertising, media and entertainment sector. The CTVMA has been set up to inform and educate the advertising, media and entertainment sector on […]

November 28, 2011By Colin Mann

US consumers more connected to TV sets than ever

American consumers continue to expand the number of devices and platforms they use to view TV shows and movies, yet report no significant change in the total time they spend watching on the traditional TV set. An annual study of consumer video consumption habits conducted by Frank N Magid Associates reveals that while more than […]

November 23, 2011

Samsung may launch Google TV in 2012

Samsung Electronics is close to concluding a deal with Google about launching a television using Google TV next year. But Samsung won’t be unveiling the new TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Yoon Boo-keun, president of Samsung’s visual display division said. Samsung, the world’s largest maker of flat-screen televisions, has been preparing plans […]

November 22, 2011

Strong interest in connected content experiences

An anticipated surge in the household penetration of next-generation Internet-connected devices indicates solid consumer interest in new content to experience on these devices, according to a new study – Connected Devices and Services: Reinventing Content – presented by global consulting firm Bain & Company at the Forum d’Avignon event, which brought together players from the […]

November 22, 2011By Colin Mann

TubeMogul selling real-time ads on connected TVs

TubeMogul, a real-time media buying platform for video advertising, has gone live with new partnerships that enable clients to seamlessly buy targeted video ads on connected TV applications. These applications are similar to smartphone applications, but are accessed via Internet-connected TVs or other Internet-enabled set-top devices. Internet-connected TVs are rapidly entering the mainstream with growth […]

November 22, 2011

Logitech ‘blew $50m on Google TV’

Logitech CEO Guerrino de Luca has admitted it blew $50 million on Google TV, which it dropped last week. He said they might back the platform again but this time “the product was not mature at the launch.” Google does not disclose how many users it has for Google TV but has admitted version 1 […]

November 18, 2011

HbbTV to take off next year in Spain

Spain’s electronic industry forecasts that connected TV will take off next year in the country with 25 per cent of the estimated 4.5 million TV sets to be sold ready for HbbTV, according to Ametic. In the current year, 15 per cent (675,000) of 4.5 million TV sets sold are HbbTV-ready, but worldwide events like […]

November 18, 2011From David Del Valle in Madrid