The New Apple TV Comes with Siri and A8 CPU

There are a few reasons to celebrate with the new Apple TV from Apple. Although they are just rumors, however, they do sound really exciting. One of it is that the price is slashed to starting from $69 from $99 previously. This is believed to make room for its successor. This announcement was found on Apple’s webite. The second reason for celebration is that new Apple TV box itself will come with new design and new hardware.

The new Apple TV will be running on A8 CPU processor which is also found on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. On top of that, it will also support 4K video playback. It is kind of surprising since the current Apple smartphone devices still do not support 4K video recording even though all of them are using the same processor chip.

Furthermore, the internal storage is increased to beyond 8GB which means that it can accommodate more apps than its predecessors. It also comes with an improved operating system for the hardware which will also support Siri voice control for Apple TV. This means that it enables the remote selection of Homekit-enabled home automation.

If all of the above good news is not enough, Apple will also introduce the new HBO Now streaming service for the latest Apple TV.  If all these rumors turn out to be true, it will be announced at the upcoming Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco in June 2015.

The New Apple TV Comes with Siri and A8 CPU

Apple in talks with TV programmers to start its own web-based pay-TV service

Over the past few years, we have been hearing plenty of talk about Apple entering the TV business. This may finally be happening now. A report suggests that the company is planning to step into web-based pay-TV business soon.

According to re/code, industry sources say that Apple is currently talking to TV programmers to work out deals so that it could offer TV content to consumers over the internet. The company would bundle up several TV channels and sell it directly over the web to consumers in its own way, using its own interface and consumer experience.

Sources say that Apple would not offer the whole TV channel lineup that the Pay-TV providers usually provide, but it will offer specific TV programming, trying to revolutionize the pay-TV business in its own way.

As re/code puts it, “The theory is that Apple would put together bundles of programming — but not the entire TV lineup that pay-TV providers generally offer — and sell it directly to consumers, over the Web. “

Although Apple has shown demos of its proposed pay-TV service to the programmers, talks are still in initial stages with some programmers yet to even begin talks with the company. So terms such as timing and pricing are still a long way from being considered.

Apple has been trying to get into the TV business since many years and has tried several different strategies in the past to no avail. It had earlier tried to plan out something with cable providers but it didn’t work out. So now Apple has apparently decided to leave them alone and work instead with TV content owners.

Sony and Dish have already set up deals with programmers to offer linear TV and video-on-demand via internet. So far, Apple’s role in the TV business was limited to Apple TV box that streams web content to traditional TV. Now Apple wants to sell the actual TV content as well.

 

Source re/code

Apple in talks with TV programmers to start its own web-based pay-TV service

30 Day Free Trial of Fire TV by Amazon

Amazon is offering free 30 days trial of Fire TV for the customers because of having huge sales of the first batch. The retailers have just need only few hours to sell all the initial batch of the Fate TV home media console. For that reason, Amazon has decided to go with free of charge for a month to the customers in order to get more customers from the market.

This offer means you can use the Fire TV for 30 days trial and the Amazon will return the media console from you after 30 days. But, you must be an official user and customer of the Amazon in order to get the offer. Before applying for the 30 day free trial of Fire TV, you need to register on the Amazon.

Like Apple TV and Roku, Amazon is going to give you lot of entertaining sources to enjoy your time and it can return good revenue from the sources. Amazon is going to have good trial version to the customers in order to give them the wonderful feature and attract. This Fire TV normally costs only $99 from Amazon and this trial basis will give you a good market to Amazon too!

Don’t you know how you will get the info of getting into the trial basis of Fire TV? Then, don’t worry because Amazon can use letters or mail in order to give you a promotional video as well as features that you can watch and decide.

30 Day Free Trial of Fire TV by Amazon