Streaming. It's a mobile world with video everywhere. It's important that CE makers know different device-to-device streaming solutions...and even more important for CE dealers to understand the opportunities consumers have when using devices for video.

John Barrett, Director Consumer Analytics at Parks Associates writes about four solutions that allow consumers to access OTT (Over-the-Top) content on their TVs.

Apple AirPlay

With AirPlay, your customers can wirelessly stream what’s on their iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch to their HDTV and speakers via Apple TV. Or mirror their iPad, iPhone 4S, or Mac screen.

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iMediaShare

Bianor develops this mobile software solution that lets your customers deliver video from their mobile to the connected DLNA-enabled TV. iMediaShare offers a widget with a “Watch on TV” button that can be easily embedded within any online video, allowing site visitors to instantly shift content from their smartphones or tablets directly to their TVs with just one click. iMediaShare uses iPhone and Android phones as a remote to beam online videos to connected televisions.

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CEDIA partners with the HAA (Home Acoustic Alliance) to offer a dedicated audio calibration course for installers working on hi-end home cinemas.

The HAA Audio Calibration course will take place at the HQ of Bowers & Wilkins in Worthing, UK from 16th-19th October 2012, with options for delegates to attend one, two or all four days of education and become HAA Level 1 and Level 2 certified.

The HAA TurboCal Certification Workshop on 16th October is designed to introduce the concept of audio calibration, looking at Sonic Evaluation, Component Verification, Design Adjustment and Electronic Calibration. The “hands-on” workshop will teach all the skills required for success up to basic pre-pro settings and the creation of a TurboCal report, enabled by the AVPro software.

The music video for Taylor Swift’s blockbuster #1 single -- “We are Never Ever Getting Back Together” – is the first ever to be shot in true 4K using Sony’s F65 CineAlta™ digital motion picture camera.

That only serves to prove a point: according to DisplaySearch, 4K2K may reach commercial success before AMOLED TV. And content is a large reason why that might happen.

Samsung and LG offer AMOLED TVs, with models seen most recently at IFA 2012. Both companies were to start mass production by Q2 2012, in time for the London Olympic Games. DisplaySearch’s David Hsieh says those AMOLED schedules have slipped... all the way to the end of 2012.

AMX ships the Modero X Series Multi Preview Live (MXA-MPL)-- an accessory allowing the streaming real-time video and preview images to Modero X series touch panels.

It works in conjunction with either the Enova DVX Presentation Switcher or the Enova DGX Digital Media Switcher with up to 10 video sources.

The MXA-MPL accepts analog or digital video inputs over HDMI (converting them into a video stream) as well as displaying up to 10 preview snapshots (in .jpeg format) on a Modero X touch panel.

AMX also adds panel-to-panel video chat support to Modero X touch panels, together with NFC communications and an array of supported video and audio codecs.

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Nintendo reveals more details of the upcoming Wii U console at the Nintendo Direct preview event-- including features turning the console into a broader living room entertainment hub.

The Nintendo calls its take on TV viewing "TVii." It integrates internet video options from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, YouTube and BBC iPlayer (presented as "channels") with content from pay-TV STBs and the TiVo recorder. Similar to what Microsoft and Sony are doing with the 360 and Playstation 3, then... and something Nintendo failed to capitalise on with the Wii.

The console from the company in 7 years, the Wii U features an oversized controller with an integrated touchscreen. Marrying industrial design from both Apple and Fisher-Price, the GamePad is usable independently from TV sets.

Further details involve European launch dates and console variants-- come November 30 2012 Nintendo will sell models with either 8 or 32GB of internal storage.

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Xantech introduces XtraNet, a device family allowing control of any device over an installed IP network.

The XtraNet XLIP200 is a basic IR input and output device. It supports native IR I/O over wired networks (to which it interfaces via an RJ-45 connector) and is configured as an input by default.

The XLIP400 (configured by default as an output) adds support of up to 128 macros. Users can access macros over any internet-capable device connected to tne network. Alternatively, users can create personalized control pages for the iPhone or iPad using 3rd party apps. The macros are configured as eight system-wide buttons plus four groups of 30 macro buttons one can dedicate to specific devices in the A/V system.