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Roku – The MSO Set-Top
Jim Funk discusses one of Roku’s newest set-tops – which is really a set-stick – that uses MHL as the interface between the TV and the set-top. In this scenario, power is provided via the connector, eliminating the need for an AC power brick. Signal is sent to the stick via WiFi. Funk also explains…
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The WiFi Washing Machine
Warwick Sterling of Whirlpool explains why his company will be integrating WiFi into their appliances in this brief video filmed at Pepcom’s Digital Experience! during the International CES 2013 event. This approach, which provides the consumer with control of their energy management, could be a no-cost competitor to service providers’ efforts to offer home energy…
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Putting the “P” in CES
[Editor’s Note: Some of the footage shown in the above video is from Pepcom’s Digital Experience!, a pre-CES event open exclusively to the press.] International CES used to be known as the Consumer Electronics Show, but in many ways it is appropriate that the CEA removed the term “Consumer” from the name. Sure, there are the latest…
