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Engadget just published a hot tip that will make the living room war with Google TV a lot more interesting. According to the tipster, Apple TV will be back with a vengeance, with a new model running the iPhone OS, supporting 1080p video, and costing just $99.
While it would include 16GB of flash storage, the [...]

While TiVo made its name by popularizing the DVR, its hardware sales have been stunted by pay TV providers baking digital recording into their own set-top boxes. The company has responded by offering its interface, which outclasses most of its cable competition, to other firms (most notably partnering with DirecTV).
The latest adopter is Best Buy, [...]

<p>Desperate to stake a bigger stake in the burgeoning on-demand movie market, major movie studios are mulling a proposal from Time Warner Cable to let consumers rent new movies in their living rooms just 30 days after they&#8217;ve been released to theaters, according to the Wall Street Journal. That&#8217;s the good news. The bad news? [...]</p>

<p>Despite the hoopla surrounding its launch, Apple TV never gave cable companies much to worry about. Now another well-heeled interloper from the computer world is entering the living room in the form of Google TV. Will cable providers be able to brush this new competition aside, or does this represent a significant challenge to their [...]</p>

Hoping to ride the trend for more affordable LED-backlit LCD HDTVs, Westinghouse is going all in, launching a new lineup of sets that ranges from 24 inches up to 55 inches. Starting at $299 and available in the third quarter, the 24-inch LD-245 is a 1080p model that the company says consumes less energy than [...]

You can be forgiven if you don&#8217;t remember Best Buy announcing six months ago that it was working with Sonic Solutions (maker of Roxio software) to create its own Internet video service to compete against like Netflix, Amazon On Demand Video, iTunes, and so on. At the time, the retailer didn&#8217;t have a name [...]