Back in August, Verizon demoed live and VOD TV on an iPad which got us even more excited about our fast connection to the interwebs and great HD TV service.
Today, they’ve made available Verizon FiOS Mobile for iPad. The only problem?
There’s no video to be found. Anywhere.
Apple’s own iPad Camera Connection Kit comes with two dongles to transfer your photos and videos using USB or an SD card. This one combines those capabilities into a single dongle and adds microSD support to boot. That’s nice and all, but neither compares to this over-engineered marvel.
Since I purchased Skyfire for my iPhone 4 a couple of months ago, I’ve been longing for an iPad version. Using nothing short of transcoding wizardry, Skyfire is an iOS browser that enables you to play Flash videos on your iPhone on both WiFi and 3G that will soon come to your iPad.
If you’re a photographer or videographer using an iPad as your on-the-go storage, edit and upload device then you may have encountered the arbitrary 32 GB limit that Apple has set for drives connected using the iPad Camera Connection Kit.
The HyperDrive iPad Hard Drive helps overcome that limit by allowing you to store up to 750 GB of photos and video in discrete 32 GB chunks. Here’s how it works.
Yesterday, during Apple’s annual September press conference and iPod refresh, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple TV along with new iPod Shuffle, iPod nano and iPod Touch devices, with the latter running the upcoming iOS 4.1.
If you’ve been wondering why Apple TV has been a “hobby” for Apple up until this point, here’s why: the integration of iOS4 and supporting devices is now seamless thanks to apps like Apple TV remotes for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch and for media software like AirPlay.
Are we there yet? Why is that man yelling? Can I have a drink? I have to go to the bathroom. What are those two dogs doing? How much longer until we get there?
If all that sounds familiar to you, then you’re probably a parent who’s been on a long drive with your offspring. While it’s great to spend time with the family, sometimes you just want a little quiet time during a long drive so you can focus on getting to your destination safely.
If you don’t have one of those fancy (and expensive) entertainment systems in your car but you own an iPad, then the Griffin CinemaSeat may just help relieve you of some of the backseat chatter whilst you’re driving (I could have used one of these during our ten-hour drive to OBX for our family vacation…)
Verizon has just announced that it will provide live TV to its FiOS customers on their iPads. Today, the company demonstrated an application running on an iPad with a channel selection that mirrors the lineup available to any FiOS subscriber on their televisions.
In London on Tuesday Penguin CEO John Makinson demonstrated what the company believes books will look like in the new iPad world – or at least how his company envisions they will look.
They’re not really books at all, but rich immersive interactive experiences. Everything from children’s books to textbooks to teen vampire fiction will exist as custom iPad apps. Quotes and video after the jump.
Apple has been trying to push major television networks over the edge into the realm of the $.99 episode. How successful have they been to date?
PBS has temporarily priced some of its shows like “Arthur,” “Martha Speaks” and “WordGirl” at $.99 while NBC has sold recaps of Olympic events at that price point, the New York Times reports. All shows mentioned are in Standard Definition (SD).
Typically, an episode on iTunes in SD costs$1.99 while HD episodes cost $2.99.
Major networks have been skeptical about the cost of individual episodes, worried that the drop from $1.99 to $.99 would hurt their relationships with affiliates and cable networks. By being “too cheap” (emphasis mine) the concern is that consumers would bypass the shows delivered by local access providers and shift to premium, on-demand video of the same network programming.
We’ve got visual evidence that Video Conferencing will eventually make its way to the iPhone OS and its supported hardware. 9t05Mac has found icons in the iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta with file names like “Accept Video” and “Decline or End Video.”
There’s also code in the iPad ‘s telephony apps that mention video chat, further supporting the theory that the iPad and/or iPhone will support video conferencing.
While all of this is interesting, is anyone really surprised?
