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Report: Apple’s Future of TV Is an Actual Television
We’ve said it time and time again: Something like half a dozen companies are working on their own versions of the future of TV. The latest rumour, via Quartz, mentions that Apple’s been chatting up...
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Microsoft Has More Spielberg-esque Xbox One TV Content Deals in the Pipeline
Microsoft’s astonishing decision to bankroll a Stephen Spielberg-produced Halo TV series will soon be joined by more telly content deals, with the Xbox One maker set to announce more exclusive shows to...
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Apple TV Just Got Support For iTunes and More
Apple TV didn’t even warrant a mention at the iPhone event earlier this month, but as expected, the set-top box just got a software overhaul. There aren’t any surprises in store, because most of this...
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You Can Buy Walt’s Tighty-Whities (and Other Props) From Breaking Bad
Upset that Breaking Bad is about to end? Feel like you’re losing an abusive, meth-hocking friend? Everything’s going to be ok—thanks to auction website ScreenBid, you can soon fill that empty space in...
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Next-Gen iPlayer, BBC Playlister, BBC Store: Digital Future of the Beeb...
Giving only his second keynote speech after becoming the BBC’s 16th Director-General back in November 2012, Tony Hall has today outlined his vision for the future of the Beeb. And it’s all about...
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Every Outfit Walter White Ever Wore in Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad tributes aren’t hard to find. We’ve seen an entire episode translated into emoji. We’ve seen the show’s theme played on equipment from a meth lab. We’ve even seen a Breaking Bad Lego set....
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Poor Aunty Beeb Can’t Win, as Red-Faced Royalists Complain About Lack of...
The BBC came under fire today after it apparently didn’t spend long enough covering the baptism of the world’s youngest celebrity. The viewers of the six and ten o’clock news only got two minutes of...
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Panasonic’s Plasma Production Pulled Permanently
And so starts the beginning of the end of the plasma TV. Panasonic, one of the last television manufacturers carrying a torch for the AV enthusiast’s preferred panel tech (and arguably the builders of...
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Xbox One’s TV Guide Features Won’t Hit the UK Until 2014
That TV EPG integration thing that Microsoft banged on and on and on about when it launched Xbox One earlier this year? We’re not getting it at launch, and Microsoft’s only giving a vague “2014″ answer...
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The TV of the Future is Already in Japan and It Feels Like Real Life
Watching Ultra HD 4K content—with 2,160 lines of vertical definition—on a Ultra HD 4K TV set is impressive. But 8K—four times the total pixels—is so incredibly realistic that it feels like you’re...
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Doctor Who Special Earns Dubious “World Record” for Global Broadcast
The endless Doctor Who PR push shows no sign of calming down even now the 50th anniversary special is finally out of the way, with the BBC now banging on about how successful its carefully orchestrated...
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The Maths Hidden in Futurama
You might just watch Futurama and giggle to yourself—as you should!—but if you study it a little more closely, you’ll find that it’s stuffed full of numbers and maths. Ever noticed that the number 1729...
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Watching These TV Signals Die is Like a Glimpse of the End of the World
Yesterday, Sydney Australia bade farewell to analogue TV signals, and put a stop to all over-the-air broadcasts across the city. And while that doesn’t affect cable users (or anyone outside of Sydney),...
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This is What 400,000 Hours of U.S. International TV News Looks Like
Ever wonder what places get the most attention in American news? The answer is more striking than you might think. This geography of U.S. attention is beautifully illustrated in a new animation that...
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The Top 10 Pirated TV Shows of 2013
Another year comes to a close, and another year of gratuitous television show pirating is in the bag. Who wins the award for the most illicit views? According to numbers from TorrentFreak Game of...
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Dolby Vision Will Make Sure Your TV’s Colours and Brightness are Right
From your home theater to the cineplex, Dolby has long been the industry standard for serious digital sound. If you’re not using Dolby’s proprietary tech, you’re playing games. With Dolby Vision tech,...
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Sharp’s New Quattron Plus TV Isn’t 4K, But it Can Fake It
4K is great, but it’s also expensive. Getting cheaper, but still a pretty penny. Sharp’s new Aquos Quattron Plus is another option: a super high resolution HD TV that’s not quite 4K, but that can play...
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Sharp 8K Glasses-Free 3D Eyes-On: Future is Hard
Sharp has been showing off an 85 inch 8K TV for years, and now the company is taking absurdly high resolution to an ambitious new level with a prototype of an 85 inch 8K TV with Dolby glasses free 3D....
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Report: Amazon Might Create an Online TV Service (Updated)
The next company in a seemingly never-ending deluge of company working on some kind of online TV streaming service? It’s Amazon, according to a WSJ report. Amazon has apparently approached some major...
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Here’s Peter Capaldi’s New Doctor Who Costume
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I don’t really care about Doctor Who. But even my interest was piqued when it was announced that Peter “Malcolm Tucker” Capaldi was going to be the new Time...
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