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Report: Apple’s Future of TV Is an Actual Television

We’ve said it time and time again: Something like half a dozen companies are working on their own versions of the future of TV. The latest rumor, via Quartz, mentions that Apple’s been chatting up Viacom, HBO, Disney, ESPN, et al about offering their content on a new TV service. But apparently content is just…

Confession: Maybe Coming Back to Cable TV Was a Bad Idea

After 2.5 years without cable TV I decided it was time to come back. Why? There were a number of reasons, which you can read about here. Now that I’m back, though, I regret it. Honestly, what the hell is going on? https://gizmodo.com/confessions-of-a-cord-cutter-why-im-back-after-2-5-ye-1059563449 My first introduction to cable television didn’t come until college, but since…

What Apple’s Latest Acquisition Says About the Future of Apple TV

Apple just bought a small startup company you probably never heard of called Matcha.tv. Why is this important? Because it might, maybe, could possibly reveal what Apple sees as the future of Apple TV: a channel-less oasis where it doesn’t matter what streaming service you watch your favorite TV show on as long as it’s…

Report: Apple’s TV Service Would Pay Networks When You Skip Ads

According to a report by former WSJ reporter Jessica Lessin, Apple’s long-rumored stand-alone TV service will supposedly allow viewers to skip over commercials. While commercial skipping has been available as a feature from the likes of Dish Network, networks have gone after and often crushed services into bankruptcy or caused them to retract said feature.…

“Game Consoles” Are the Final Key to Digital Domination

Google might be building a game console, rumors say. Apple too. Actually, everyone’s building game consoles. It’s just, they aren’t game consoles, exactly. They’re puzzle pieces. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-google-is-making-an-android-video-game-console-and-603197957 Game consoles have historically been their own little colony off to the side of technology. For a while that’s because they were seen mainly as an expensive kids’…

Apple TV Just Got HBO Go and WatchESPN

Apple TV just plugged two very big holes in its streaming content: HBO and ESPN. The streaming box will now play content from the HBO Go and WatchESPN apps. And that’s good news for just about everyone involved. Apple TV has always been a very nice streaming box to use, but lately, it had fallen…

The Surest Sign Yet That Apple TV Will Be a Gaming Console

This week, Apple released its first-ever instructions for designing and developing a game controller for use with Apple products. The evidence suggests that Apple is gearing up take gaming beyond the confines of its products. It’s going to condone console-style game development. And today’s game controller for iOS 7 could mean that tomorrow’s Apple TV…

What About Apple TV?

Yesterday, Apple put on one heck of a show. We got a snazzy new version of iOS 7, one big wave of an OS X update, and even a preview of the next Mac Pros. But where was all the news about Apple TV? Apple is seemingly ignoring the enormous potential of its set-top-box. https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-2013-roundup-all-the-new-toys-apple-announced-tod-512401795…

WWDC 2013 Predictions: Here Comes iOS 7, But What Else? (Updated)

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) doesn’t kick off until tomorrow, but the internet’s been wildly speculating about the company’s plans for months. Some of it is almost definite (hello, flat design) and some of it’s absurd (stop it with this). Here are all the goodies we actually expect Tim Cook and his funky bunch throw…

If you like the same TV as tweens, shows on The CW will be coming to Apple TV. MacRumors says that full episodes of CW shows will be available next day and users don’t need cable authentication. Apps for Apple TV… they have to be coming, right? [MacRumors]

Some Apple TVs Have Wi-Fi Issues, But You Can Get a Replacement

Apple has admitted that some of its third-generation Apple TVs have Wi-Fi issues—but owners with affected hardware are now able to exchange it for a fully functional replacement. The affected units struggle to locate a Wi-Fi network, are sometimes unable to join a network, and experience dropped or intermittent connections, reports 9to5mac. As Apple explains:…

Hulu Plus Just Got a Brand New Redesign for Apple TV

Because watching television is a notoriously harrowing and grueling process, Hulu Plus just underwent a major redesign for Apple TV, making it easier to navigate and shaving off precious seconds that could otherwise be spent with the TV people, you’re real friends. Slide the arrows above from left to right to see Hulu Plus’ layout…

A tweaked Apple TV is hitting stores with mods so subtle they’re invisible to users—including a tiny new A5 processor.

Every Apple Product Supposedly in the Works

Did you hear the latest rumor about Apple’s “explorations” into a Dick Tracy-like smartwatch that’ll soon be attaching itself to everybody’s wrists? It’s coming soon. Or never. But it’s just another one of an avalanche of products Apple is rumored to have in the works. We’ve rounded up everything Apple’s supposed to have in the…

Apple TV Will Get HBO Go Soon

HBO Go, the greatest streaming service known to mankind, will be coming to the Apple TV this year. Bloomberg is reporting that the HBO Go app will pop up on Apple’s little black box by the middle of 2013. The next months are going to be suspenseful! HBO Go is already available on iOS but…

There Is an Even Smaller Apple TV (Updated)

According to a FCC filing, Apple has a smaller Apple TV in the works. What’s weird is that it’s not that much smaller than the current Apple TV—the small version would be 93.78 square millimeters as opposed to the current version’s 98 square mm. Everything else about the FCC filing on the Apple TV looks…

WSJ: Apple Is Testing Designs for a TV

Surprise! According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is working with Sharp and Foxconn to test designs for a new TV. The Journal claims the tests are taking place at Sharp’s Sakai plant in western Japan—one of the most advanced LCD facilities in the world—which is capable of producing sets over 60 inches in size…

The Dumbest Apple Rumor of the Year

There are all kinds of Apple rumors out there; big ones, small ones, smart ones, dumb ones. God knows we run enough of them ourselves. But there’s a genus of the species that we never post, ever, because it’s so obviously and insidiously dumb and wrong and bad. And here is, without exaggeration, the very…

Seems the Apple TV’s upcoming iOS update will bring Bluetooth keyboard control. Easy armchair navigation! [9to5mac]

Time Warner Can’t Wait for Apple to Build a TV

Apple’s longed-for à la carte channels-as-apps TV is proving remarkably slow to arrive. But Time Warner’s CEO, Jeff Bewkes, can’t wait to get one. https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-tv-just-became-apples-most-important-product-5931185 It seems a little unusual that the head honcho of a cable TV company would be so keen to get his hands on Cook and co’s competition—but he is. Speaking…