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Broadcom And ViXS Get Their Chips In A Sling… Er, I Mean, A Sling In Their Chips

I was a little disappointed by the news out of CES last week. While there were certainly a lot of cool devices, like 4K Passive 3D TVs, razor thin OLED HDTVs with actual large screens, etc., a lot of the … Continue reading

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Is TiVo Already Working on the Series5 – or should I say Series4S?

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the iPhone joke in the title. More seriously, I’m sure TiVo is working on the next generation of product. The TiVo Premiere Elite ships Monday, or so it seems. But it takes months, even a year … Continue reading

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Broadcom Brings Adobe Flash To TVs And STBs

Broadcom has partnered with Adobe to embed Adobe Flash Lite 3 into several of their latest System-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms for TVs and STBs. This will allow vendors who use Broadcom’s chips to easily add Flash support to their products. Along … Continue reading

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Sub-$200 Blu-ray Players In Time For The Holidays

I’ve said it myself several times, I expect to see Blu-ray players with sub-$200 MSRPs on shelves in time for the holidays. We’ve already had sub-$300 MSRP players announced, due by mid-year. As more and more players hit shelves, especially … Continue reading

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