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Amazon's Lovefilm streaming service is getting a dollop of fresh content from across the pond, courtesy of a newly-inked deal with Disney-owned broadcaster ABC. Dubbed ABC TV On Demand, the service launches today with the likes of Lost and Cougar Town, and will see many more shows added over the coming weeks and months. Read more
January 12th, 2012
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This week sees the yearly Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It’s a cacophony of tablets, car speaker systems, iPhone cases, washing machines, corpulent analysts in blazers and network infrastructure, but because the mainstream media has only so many column inches to spare, this vast show typically becomes a reductionist competition where hacks attempt to boil it down into as few sweeping trends as possible. Two years ago, it was 3D TV. Last year, it was still 3D TV. This year, it's all about smart TVs, hooked up to the internet for on-demand content. Typically, what’s shown at CES eventually trickles into shops at some point in the summer, but this year it’s different. We’re being shown what we already have. Many of us have smart TV technology in our living rooms already, and we don’t even realise it: case in point, Netflix. Read more
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OnLive has announced a partnership with Google TV at CES 2012, in a deal that - if you believe in cloud gaming - symbolises the future of gaming in the home by completely ridding the need for a console. Read more
January 10th, 2012
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Google TV is properly in its Rocky montage stage: a comeback is on the cards thanks to a partnership with several major TV manufacturers and some healthy enthusiasm from Google boss Eric Schmidt. Now Google TV gaming looks set to get supercharged thanks to a top multiplayer title from developer Ustwo. Read more
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[gallery] Remember when OLED TVs first started making news as tiny, 10-inch displays that cost the earth? Oh how we’ve all come on: CES 2012 is playing host to a new breed of massive, 55-inch OLED sets ...that still cost the earth.  Read more
January 9th, 2012
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Lenovo has burst onto the scene at CES 2012 with the Lenovo K91, an Android Ice Cream Sandwich powered TV. The set boasts some decent specs and some promising connectivity, but will Google be happy? Read more
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Amazon's movie streaming and rental service Lovefilm has come out fighting. Today might see the launch of American rival Netflix on British shores, but the UK's most famous film provider isn't shrinking away from the competition. It's just unleashed its final stats for 2011, announcing two million subscribers driven by a record number of sign-ups. Your move, Netflix. Read more
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[gallery] It’s here. Netflix UK has launched, positioning itself as the only real subscription movie service to challenge Lovefilm thus far. The launch sees the movie streamer land on a myriad web-enabled devices as of today. Read more
 
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