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A few of the apps already available on, or coming soon to, connected TVs Connect TV Connect TV enables viewers to access channels delivered over the internet directly through the programme guide on any compatible Freeview HD receiver. It allows channels to offer niche channels on Freeview HD over broadband, as well as providing the [...]

The growth of connected TV will place extra demands on the UK’s broadband infrastructure There was a bit of a jolt for connected TV enthusiasts in February when Korea Telecom (KT), the largest telecoms firm in Korea, announced that it would be restricting internet access by Samsung’s smart TVs. This removed their ability to download [...]

Connected TV may be the next big thing in media, but why has it taken so long to get off the ground?

It’s been “infinitely deferred” for years. But Jonathan Watson argues that the era of connected TV is finally about to begin. Watch this space… According to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, words and signs could never fully express what they actually meant, but could only be defined by reference to other words, from which they differ. [...]

Connected TV offers a dizzying array of new services. But how easy is it for the consumer to make sense of getting access to content, especially when many did not ask for it? Here ’s a riddle for you. When is a connected TV not a connected TV? The answer, strangely enough, is most of [...]

Connected TV is making solid progress in the UK, but there are still several technological – and cultural – hurdles to overcome before it really takes off Anyone following announcements from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January must have thought decades of entrenched viewing habits were to be changed forever as “connected TV” [...]

Could Google and Apple extend their dominance of the mobile market to the world of broadcasting? If the rumours are anything to go by, just watch this space… By this time next year there could be two major new players, Google and Apple, not just in the television market but the TV set market, too. [...]

Twitter and Facebook are changing the way we view TV. Today, we don’t need to switch off to sound off We’ve all done it – turned to Facebook or Twitter to announce we’re sitting down to watch Downton Abbey, vent our frustration at The Apprentice or react to a political spat on Question Time. In [...]

If Apple does launch a new TV this year, 2012 could go down in history as the year that broadcasting changed forever “I’d like to create an integrated TV set that is completely easy to use,” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson before his death last year. He wanted there to be [...]