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Apple News: Reputable Analyst Agrees With Munster: The Apple HDTV Will Enter Living Rooms In 2015 It’s hard to think of two analysts as different frome one another as Gene Munster and KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. While Munster has foolishly prattled on, predicting an Apple HDTV set every single year for at least five years without it coming true, Ming-Chi Kuo draws upon proven supply-chain sources across the Far…

Apple News: Is Apple’s magic wand ‘the simplest interface’ that Steve Jobs envisioned for iTV? As Tim Cook & Co. continue “pulling the string” on the TV space, readers with a keen interest in Apple’s many patent applications are aware of a 2009 filing involving a wand remote of sorts that may include a motion detection component meant for the television interface. Last June, the United States Patent & Trademark…

Apple News: Smart TV Adoption Growing Rapidly, Market Ripe for Apple iTV According to a new report from media research firm TDG (via GigaOM) 14% of households with broadband internet owned an Apple TV, Roku box, or similar streaming platform during a study in 2012. While that sounds like an impressive number, Smart TVs have been slowly taking over the connected TV market. 25% of households owned a smart TV…

Apple News: Apple iTV May Launch 4Q13 With 4K Resolution If Apple plans to reinvent the way we watch TV in the living room, then it needs to start with a screen resolution that’s better than 1080p, eliminate the remote, and the overall solution needs to be somewhat affordable. That is supposedly the route Apple is taking with iTV, offering not only motion-sensing control functions and Siri-based voice commands, but…

Apple News: Apple Will Revolutionize TV And Here’s How In the Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, we were told how Steve Jobs claimed to have cracked the TV dilemma. In a recent interview with Brian Williams, Tim Cook talked about how TV is stuck in the past and how he loves the Jetsons. It’s no big secret that Apple has a TV project on a shelf somewhere in Cupertino. The…