Amid strong sales for the video-friendly iPhone and high hopes for its PC-to-TV-screen product Apple TV, the company is increasingly emphasizing video content, and the addition of a prestige brand like HBO certainly will not hurt.
The core example it highlighted this time was the addition of a My Home Screen function to its Viera smart TVs.
This included massive overhauls to its food selection and restaurants, such as the addition of fireplaces, lounge seating, and flat-screen TVs.
A couple of prominent examples: In addition to its game-playing features, Microsoft's Xbox 360 ($400) performs a similar PC-to-TV bridging function; in fact, it even has its own online movie store.
Most tech vendors are working on hardware that mainly ships the content along a one-way road from your PC to the TV screen.
The blessing is the steady stream of headline-making events that virtually jump off the page and screen (both PC and TV screens).
HP's Joshi said he realized the company's opportunity in TV display while visiting a Circuit City store where HP had hooked up a media center PC to a large-screen plasma TV.
The data was collected during the fourth quarter of 2016, and compares TV screen-based viewing to viewing on PCs, tablets, smartphones, and other TV-connected devices like game consoles and streaming players such as the Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku and others.
The systems are often paired with flat-screen television sets that provide all the clarity of a PC without the problem of reformatting pages to fit traditional Web-TV services.
Customers who have a Vista Premium or Vista Ultimate PC will have the added ability to navigate a menu on their TV screen to select and download movies remotely to their PC.
Something the PC industry has been staggering blindly towards for the past few years with Intel pushing TV tuner cards on the market, and Gateway selling big-screen TV-PCs to a, for the most part, indifferent market.
