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Canadian broadcast companies have Apple iTV prototypes in their labs – Rumor
Color us skeptical, but The Globe and Mail reports: Canada’s largest telecommunications companies are squaring off in a fight about the future of television. Rogers Communications Inc. RCI.B-T and BCE Inc. BCE-T are in talks with Apple Inc. AAPL-Q to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, a product that has the potential to revolutionize TV viewing by turning conventional televisions [...]
Continue reading...Apple to cooperate with cable operators for upcoming iTV – Analyst
Monday, February 6, 2012
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AppleInsider reports: Peter Misek with Jefferies presented his “what if” analyses related to content on the so-called “iTV” in a note to investors on Monday. In what he sees as the most likely scenario, Apple could gain access to non-exclusive content for its television set and forge deals with existing cable providers. By potentially partnering [...]
Continue reading...Best Buy survey references 42-inch Apple HDTV
Monday, February 6, 2012
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In an effort to obtain customer feedback about potential new products, Best Buy sent out a survey to customers wherein the retailing giant makes reference to a 42-inch Apple HDTV. The big box wants to know how you feel about it based on some proposed promotional verbiage which boasts that “Apple finally reinvents what a [...]
Continue reading...Apple reportedly speaking to TV component suppliers ahead of HDTV launch
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster issued a research note today lending even more fodder to the Apple HDTV rumor mill. “We recently spoke to a major TV component supplier who has been contacted by Apple regarding various capabilities of their television display components,” Muster writes. “We are confident that Apple will enter the connected TV [...]
Continue reading...Apple HDTV will include a 42-inch OLED with facial recognition – Crazy Rumor
Friday, January 27, 2012
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Citing a high-ranking source at a major electronics retailer, Technobuffalo reports that Apple’s rumored HDTV will likely see the light of day by April, or May at the absolute latest. As for the TV itself, it’s rumored to be a 42-inch OLED described as being ‘gorgeous’ and ‘very thin’. While we don’t know if the [...]
Continue reading...Apple reportedly testing 42 and 50-inch HDTVs in its research labs
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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With CES just around the corner, the market will soon be filled with the latest in HDTV technology from the likes of Samsung, LG and a host of others. But per usual, the one company keeping its hand close to its vest is Apple. Indeed, rumors of Apple making the leap into the TV business [...]
Continue reading...Apple reportedly preparing for iTV launch in early 2012
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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The heavily rumored Apple HDTV is in the news again today. This time, Digitimes claims that Apple has already started preparing for an iTV launch during the second or third quarter of 2012. Instead of a form of set-top box (STB) like the Apple TV launched in 2006, Apple’s new products will be full TV [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s HDTV plans begin to crystalize
Monday, December 19, 2011
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As reports of Apple’s TV plans continue to swirl overhead, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has already met with various media executives to discuss, in the vaguest of terms of course, their plans and vision for what may very well be an upcoming Apple HDTV. Now the HDTV market is arguably saturated [...]
Continue reading...Report claims Apple HDTV to sport A6 processor and come in 3 screen sizes
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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Citing Japanese sources reportedly involved in Apple’s HDTV efforts, Smarthouse is reporting that Apple’s rumored HDTV will come in 3 different sizes – a 32 inch model on the low end and a 55 inch model on the higher end. The report further notes that the set will incorporate an A6 processor that will likely [...]
Continue reading...Apple HDTV to come in variety of sizes – Report
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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Gene Munster, the analyst from Piper Jaffray who typically takes a bullish stance on all things Apple, has been propagating the idea of an Apple HDTV for years. And if any of the rumblings we’ve been hearing are accurate, well, he’s gonna be proven right one of these days. While speaking at the Ignition: Future [...]
Continue reading...Competitors worried, already scrambling to react to rumored Apple HDTV
Thursday, November 24, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: The rumblings surrounding the long-rumored Apple HDTV continue to get louder. Adding some more fuel to the fire, All Things D reported yesterday that Apple may have tapped Sharp to produce the displays for the as of yet unconfirmed Apple HDTV. Over at Jeffries, analyst Peter Misek suggests that Sharp is retooling [...]
Continue reading...Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus talks Apple HDTV and more
Friday, November 11, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: As the flasgship feature in the iPhone 4S, Apple fans are curious as to what other plans Apple has for Siri down the line. While Apple has made it clear that its voice recognition personal assistant won’t be coming to older iOS devices ever, some have hinted at an upcoming Apple HDTV [...]
Continue reading...NYT claims Apple working on an HDTV with Siri functionality
Friday, October 28, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: In the wake of Steve Jobs claiming in his biography that he “cracked” the problems inherent in creating an integrated HDTV, not to mention reports that iPod and iTunes guru Jeff Robbin is heading up development efforts on an Apple Television set, Nick Bilton of the New York Times writes that the [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s Jeff Robbin said to be leading Apple’s HDTV charge
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: With the drumbeat surrounding an impending Apple HDTV becoming louder by the week, Bloomberg reports that Apple engineer and iTunes developer Jeff Robbin has been tapped as the lead developer of the rumored television set. Robbin’s involvement is a sign of Apple’s commitment to extending its leadership in smartphones and tablets into [...]
Continue reading...Apple HDTV prototypes already believed to be in the works
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: First it was the iPhone. Next it was the iPad. And now it’s an Apple HDTV that seems to be the latest focus of the Apple rumor mill. Rumors of an Apple HDTV have been picking up steam for some time now and even received a little kickstart after Steve Jobs told [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs on an Apple HDTV – “I finally cracked it”
Friday, October 21, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: One of the tenets of Apple under the reign of Steve Jobs was product secrecy, but Jobs upcoming biography has an interesting product revelation that confirms Apple’s plans to build an integrated HDTV. “He very much wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: [...]
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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