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Ubuntu TV unveiled at CES 2012

Posted on  1/9/2012

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  <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Canonical team demonstrated Ubuntu TV for the first time, as the company moves to broaden the reach of its open-source OS beyond the PC.</span></p> 
  
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      <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The company is showing off the first Ubuntu TV at CES 2012 &nbsp;in Las Vegas, and Canonical expects the first Ubuntu-powered television to be on the shelves by the end of this year.</span></div> 
      
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          <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">user interface of ubuntu TV &nbsp;looks quite similar&nbsp;&nbsp;like unity user interface, an ubuntu with&nbsp;customize unity lense&nbsp;</span>
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          <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">&nbsp;It&#8217;s a simple viewing experience for online video, both your own and routed over the internet,&#8221; Jane Silber, Canonical&#8217;s CEO told . Movie streaming services will be supported as well as live television broadcasts.</span>
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          <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h0Bw2Jzzs7A/TwqI6wBX-FI/AAAAAAAABx8/PEs4IEt2UO4/s1600/it_photo_173029_52.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h0Bw2Jzzs7A/TwqI6wBX-FI/AAAAAAAABx8/PEs4IEt2UO4/s640/it_photo_173029_52.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Silber told Canonical was in discussions with a number of television manufacturers, but couldn&#8217;t confirm any signed deals. It will face stiff competition from Google &#8211; which only last week added LG to its roster of Google TV manufacturers &#8211; and Apple, which is widely tipped to be working on an internet television after making little impact with successive generations of its Apple TV hardware.</span>
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