Right on schedule , Best Buy’s announced it’s good and able to ship two Insignia-branded connected televisions with TiVo’s UI — minus the total DVR thing, this is. Both 1080p sets, available in 32- and 42-inch flavors, are landing months after the retailer said it was buddying up with TiVo to borrow its user interface — and only that, there is not any indication these will play nicely with Premiere DVRs and their multiroom streaming at launch — for searching content and in addition just getting up and running easily. As you’d expect, folks perusing these sets can watch movies from Netflix, CinemaNow, and YouTube, in addition to stream from Pandora and Napster. Rounding out the list of apps are Facebook, Twitter, Photobucket, and Chumby , with more to come back, Best Buy tells us. Apart from the straightforward access to content, the tale here’s that the UI plays nice with existing cable boxes, making the installation easy besides the fact that the individual holding the remote doesn’t happen to have a lengthy serial number handy. Search for the 32-inch number for $499, with the 42-incher fetching $699. Find the complete PR after the break, in addition to a smattering of hands-on shots of what must be an all-too-familiar interface.
Insignia Unveils Connected TV with Award-winning TiVo® Design
Insignia’s Smart TV is first to mix the flexibility of the net with acclaimed TiVo user interface, all in stunning HDMINNEAPOLIS, MN (August 1, 2011) – Best Buy’s own Insignia brand today announced the advent of the recent Insignia Connected TV. Insignia Connected TV customers can simply enjoy broadcast and online movies, shows, and music. Simple, easy entertainment is what customers want in a TV, and Insignia delivers in this through its TiVo® Design partnership, providing award-winning Tivo ease-of-use, all and not using a paid TiVo subscription. The recent Insignia Connected TV can be available in 32- and 42-inch models for $499 and $699 respectively, on BestBuy.com and at Best Buy stores nationwide.
Insignia’s Connected TV incorporates a breadth of entertainment options from essentially the most desired services, including Netflix, CinemaNow, YouTube, Pandora and Napster, plus popular entertainment and social media applications from the chumby content network, corresponding to Facebook, Twitter, Photobucket and more. Developed by Insignia from the bottom up, including ease of setup and straightforwardness of use in accordance with Best Buy customer input, the Insignia Connected TV directly solves the most typical challenges consumers face with other, more complicated Smart TVs. In partnering with TiVo, Insignia created a product and interface that provides consumers an experience it’s easy to take advantage of, easy to attach and simple to locate.
Easy to attach: Connecting to broadcast and online entertainment is a snap with a very simple step-by-step guided setup. The Insignia Connected TV virtually sets itself up!
Easy to take advantage of: Insignia brings the joys back to TV entertainment, with all the Insignia Connected TVs powerful features at your fingertips throughout the award-winning TiVo Design interface.
Easy to locate: Insignia makes discovering new online entertainment a breeze by allowing customers to go looking for online movies and shows from the preferred services.“The Insignia Connected TV gives our valued customers a brand new option to easily established and access the entertainment they need, after they want it,” said Patrick McGinnis, vp of Exclusive Brands at Best Buy. “We’ve heard from customers that Smart TVs may be intimidating, and we’ve put 110% of our energy into making the powerful features of the Insignia Connected TV easy to enjoy.”
“TiVo has evolved from its roots because the DVR that modified the best way consumers interact with entertainment, allowing us to customise and deliver solutions that best meet the desires of our partners like Insignia,” said Jim Denney, general manager and vice chairman of Product Marketing at TiVo Inc.”The Insignia Connected TV is the results of great collaboration and we’re proud to bring the TiVo experience to this leading consumer electronics brand and innovative product.”
As portion of Insignia’s ongoing partnership with leading content platform chumby, the Insignia Connected TV comes preloaded with the most well liked chumby applications, including Twitter, Facebook, Photobucket, Accuweather, Reuters News and Sports, Stocks and Traffic. Customers can customize their experience by selecting additional content from the chumby network, which supports hundreds of applications for the Insignia Connected TV. It also benefits from chumby’s wide network of developers engaged on new content, and Insignia will continue to update and add applications to the Connected TV as new, high-demand applications become available.
Additional product features and technical enhancements include:
LED: Thin, elegant design and effort efficient, a great fit for contemporary households
1080p/120Hz: Stunning picture quality with full HD and clearer fast motion
Enhanced audio: Music and dialogue never sounded this good from a flat panel TV, enabled by Audyssey and SRS
Rocketboost-ready: Wireless, uncompressed digital audio input to the television or output to speakers comparable to the Insignia Soundbar and the Rocketfish Outdoor SpeakerAdditional info concerning the product visit www.bestbuy.com/insigniaconnectedtv.
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