Tag: Apple
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Soon You May Be Able to Stream Movies Still in Theaters
After a failed live TV effort Apple is once again pressing Hollywood studios for earlier access to movies, according Bloomberg, a move that would bolster the company’s iTunes business. Yet this is not the first time a company has tried this. Amazon was rumored to be pushing for this deal but was never able to…
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Apple Will Roll Out a “Smart TV Guide” For The Apple TV Tomorrow
If Recode is right Apple will unveil a “Smart TV Guide” tomorrow during it’s “Hello Again” press event. The idea of this new Smart TV Guide is that Apple wants to make it easier to find and watch video content without requiring users to sift through a bunch of apps. Instead, Apple’s guide will aggregate shows and…
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So When Will We Get a New Apple TV 5?
One of the most common questions we get right now about the Apple TV . Many wonder whether there will be a new Apple TV 5 or a major update to the current Apple TV. A Brief History of the Apple TV The first Apple TV was released on January 9, 2007, and it cost a…
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Why Apples’ Live TV Service Failed Before It Was Ever Released
For several years now we have heard reports about how Apple had huge plans to release a game changer of a streaming service. This Apple TV streaming service was rumored to be a Sling TV killer because it would offer live TV in a way no one has ever done. Hopes started to skyrocket for…
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Streaming Player Sales Set a New Records in 2015
The growth of cord cutting and of new streaming services drove sales of streaming players to a new record in 2015. Digital media adapters (DMAs), also known as streaming media players, such as Roku, Chromecast, Fire TV, and Apple TV boxes, saw a 15% jump in sales over 2014 to 42 million devices sold in…
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Roku is Dominating the Cord Cutting Market by a Wide Margin
The rapid growth of cord cutting has brought in a ton of new devices to compete for the cord cutter’s dollar including big names such as Google, Apple, and Amazon. Now a recent survey conducted by Cord Cutters News has shown that cord cutters have a clear favorite streaming media player. According to our survey,…
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Amazon’s CEO Addresses the Future of Amazon Video on the Apple TV
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos was speaking at Re/code’s and addressed one of the biggest questions about Amazon Video… When is Amazon Video coming to the Apple TV, one of the last big streaming players to not have access to Amazon Video with a native app. “[Y]ou can always get the video player on the device,”…
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How to Stream From Android Devices to the Apple TV
This post is a guest blog by LatesTech. Although there are many smart TVs that are able to connect with Android handsets, many are wondering if they will be able to stream videos from their Android smartphones or tablets to their Apple TVs. The answer is “Yes!” You will be able to stream from…
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Apple Buying Netflix Would Be Bad for Everyone…
Talk has recently started about how Apple should buy Netflix in an effort to help boost Apple’s slowing sales and inability to strike a deal with content owners for their own streaming service. Netflix is a publicly traded company making it harder to prevent a hostile takeover, and Apple has cash on hand to buy…
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Editorial: The Continuing Disappointment That Is the Apple TV
Yesterday Apple announced their great new update to the Apple TV in an effort to change the way we get our entertainment. So what was that great innovation from Apple? Folders. Oh, yeah, we also got voice dictation to fix what may be the most annoying keyboard of any streaming media player. (Don’t just listen…