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12
Mar
The BBC is creating a TV drama based on ‘Grand Theft Auto’
As part of an initiative to get the UK into coding, the BBC is creating a new TV show based on Rockstar’s best-selling game series Grand Theft Auto. Not much is known about the show; the BBC simply states that a “new BBC Two drama based on Grand Theft Auto” is on its way. A release date for the show hasn’t been nailed down yet, but the related “Make it Digital” campaign kicks off this fall. It’s unclear what elements from the games will make their way over to TV. Will we see Tommy Verceti cruising Vice City, Niko Bellic cracking skulls in Liberty City or perhaps just something loosely based on the concept? Who knows, but it seems safe to say that some sort of car theft will be involved.
The BBC’s “Make it Digital” campaign is mainly targeted at 11-to-12-year-olds (who are too young to legally buy the games in the UK), but also includes an element that aims to create 5,000 trainee positions for unemployed teens and generally improve the country’s tech literacy. We’ve reached out to the BBC for more information on the Grand Theft Auto project, and will update this article accordingly.
Filed under: Gaming
Source: BBC Media Centre
12
Mar
Verizon nabs DreamWorks originals for its upcoming streaming service
Verizon’s internet TV service is coming later this year, and Big Red is locking down OTA content providers. The company ordered over 200 hours of original programming from AwesomenessTV and DreamWorksTV that will debut in 2015, with the former producing series aimed at teens and the latter developing live action and animated content featuring its popular characters. That list would certainly include personalities from Shrek and Madagascar, we’d surmise. If you’re not familiar with AwesomenessTV, it has a sizeable following on YouTube, in addition to films and series on both Nickelodeon and Netflix. And DreamWorksTV is a YouTube channel for the studio’s animated, live action and vlog-based short clips.
Of course, Verizon is looking to offer custom options for its streaming service, so this pair should get cozy with the age-appropriate menu items. There’s still no word on an official launch date, so we’ll have to stick with the “probably late in the first half of 2015″ timeline that CEO Lowell McAdam spilled back in September. Sony will beat Verizon to living rooms, though, as it’ll go live (in a handful of cities) with the PlayStation Vue offering in a matter of days. Of course, Sling TV started equipping cord cutters with an alternate option last month.
[Image credit: DreamWorks]
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD
1
Mar
MediaTek’s standard lets your devices share their hardware
There are plenty of standards for sharing your media collection between devices, but what if you want to borrow a device’s camera or display? MediaTek thinks it has an answer. Its new CrossMount standard lets devices share their hardware and software when they’re on the same WiFi network, letting you use whichever components make sense in a given situation. You can use your phone’s mic to dictate voice commands to your TV, for example, or use your phone’s webcam for a video chat on your tablet.
CrossMount is an open standard based on the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) standard you probably have in some of your existing gear, so it might be easy to implement when it’s available in the third quarter of the year. A few big East Asian TV and mobile device makers have already hopped on the bandwagon, including Changhong, Hisense, Lenovo and TCL. With that said, it’s hard to know if anyone else will bite. There are still a lot of other companies that haven’t signed on, and big names like Samsung or LG may prefer to use in-house tech for any device sharing.
Not that MediaTek is putting all its eggs in one basket — it has a few chips in store as well. The darling is the MT8173, a 64-bit processor that’s supposedly the “highest performing” CPU you can get in a tablet. It mates two high-end Cortex-A72 cores with two low-power Cortex-A53 cores to deliver about six times (!) the performance of last year’s MT8125, or enough to handle 4K video with ease. And fans of mid-range phones might like the MT6753, an eight-core 64-bit Cortex-A53 processor. Neither is available just yet, though. The MT6753 won’t reach devices you can buy until the second quarter of the year, while the range-topping MT8173 isn’t poised to show up until the second half.
Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment, Tablets, HD, Mobile
Source: MediaTek
27
Feb
Taotaole HDMI LED projector, $89.99
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26
Feb
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25
Feb
Netflix is bringing back ‘Inspector Gadget’ and ‘Danger Mouse’
Netflix isn’t slowing down its efforts to win your kids’ attention… if anything, it’s ramping things up. The streaming service just unveiled five child-friendly shows that will arrive over the course of the next year. The first is a big one — Netflix will offer a 26-episode reboot of Inspector Gadget. You’ll get to revisit the adventures of the half-machine cop starting in March in the US, with other countries coming later. You’ll have to be more patient for the rest. The Playmobil-based animated series Super 4 shows up next, in April. The live action series Some Assembly Required is due this summer, while both Bottersnikes & Gumbles (a “community comedy”) and a revival of the spy parody Danger Mouse are arriving in spring 2016. The odds are that the remakes won’t quite live up to what you remember, but they may well keep your little ones entertained on that next big vacation.
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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD
Source: Netflix
20
Feb
Every single episode of ‘CSI’ hits Hulu Plus exclusively this April
You read that headline right: Every episode of the wildly popular CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and all its spin-offs are coming exclusively to Hulu Plus. As the Hulu blog tells it, over 300 episodes of the series’ll appear on the streaming service come April. Hulu also points out that this deal means that past seasons will be added ahead of future season premieres (CSI: Cyber, anyone?) as well — unlike its South Park deal, though, there’s no word on day-after streaming yet. Hulu says that watching Horatio Caine (David Caruso, above) and crew’s antics back-to-back would fill around two weeks total. How many vacation days do you have left?
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Hulu Blog
16
Feb
Nintendo’s TVii service won’t be coming to the Wii U in Europe
Sorry, European gamers: the Wii U’s TVii service won’t reach your corner of the globe. Nintendo has dropped plans to bring the personalized streaming media guide to the region due to the “extremely complex” task of accommodating multiple services in numerous countries across the continent. The Euro crowd isn’t coming away completely empty-handed, though. Nintendo is launching the Anime Channel, a 3DS-specific video service that lets you view Japanese animation (what else?) for free. The focus right now is unsurprisingly on Nintendo-related shows like Kirby and Pokemon, but more content is on the way — you just need to grab an app from the eShop to start watching.
Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD, Nintendo
Via: Polygon
Source: Nintendo (1), (2)
11
Feb
Samsung bets on OLED as smartphone sales decline
It’s easy to forget that Samsung is a multi-tentacled company that builds much more than TVs and phones. For instance, it manufactures CPUs for arch-foe Apple and makes small-to-medium OLED panels for various companies, not just its own mobile division. According to Reuters, Samsung will invest another $3.6 billion into its OLED business to offset flagging smartphone sales. Most of that cash will go into a new production line producing curved panels for the Galaxy Note edge and third-party devices. And Samsung’s not the only South Korean manufacturer dumping more money into OLEDs. LG will also stake nearly $1 billion on new OLED capacity for large-panel items like TVs, as well. The takeaway? Given the display dominance of the two companies, many more OLED devices — both big and small — should be hitting the market soon.
11
Feb
Samsung swears its smart TVs aren’t eavesdropping on you
Over the weekend, quite a few people panicked at the phrasing of Samsung’s smart TV privacy policy. Its warning that third parties would get your sensitive spoken info conjured up images of Orwellian telescreens spying on their viewers. The reaction was largely paranoia (this was just a description of standard cloud-based voice recognition), but the company isn’t leaving anything to chance — it posted a retort that denies any eavesdropping and clarifies what its screens are really doing. As Samsung explains, neither the TV’s mic nor the one in your remote are monitoring everything you say. The TV only listens for a predetermined set of commands, while the controller won’t handle more sophisticated requests (such as asking for movie advice) until you hit a button.
The explanation isn’t perfect (how long is that information stored, for example?), but it doesn’t leave much room for debate. However, it also suggests that smart TV makers haven’t finished tackling the privacy concerns that have plagued them since at least 2013. Unless every manufacturer both respects privacy and is clear about what’s happening, there may always be a nagging suspicion that these smart sets are too nosy.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD, Samsung
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Samsung Tomorrow
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