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The post Android TV in 2019: Industry trends moving forward appeared first on BardTech . Android TV boxes have a lot of potential, but thanks to the mishandling by device manufacturers they may soon be outclassed by competitors. However, Google isn’t giving up just yet. In a panel consisting of leading experts from Google and Think Analytics hosted by Accedo at Broadcast Asia, we got to have a closer look at trends and recent developments affecting Android TV as a platform. Android TV going into 2019 Reduced costs and time to market Android TV has matured in a lot of ways over the years, and as a platform, it beats out traditional set-top boxes with the ability to be a whole lot more personal. It can integrate with many different services, and the addition of features such as voice search allows for greater opportunities down the line. As it stands, the price for an OEM to launch an Android TV box is down 60% over what it used to be a little over a year ago thanks to w...

The post Apple moves forward with its adaption of Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ appeared first on BardTech . Apple has placed a series order for Foundation , an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s classic series of science fiction stories and novels. Deadline reported earlier this year that the show was in development , but this was just the latest of several attempts to adapt Foundation , including a version developed by Westworld ‘s Jonathan Nolan for HBO. Now, however, it looks like Foundation really will happen at Apple, with David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman as showrunners. (Like Nolan, Goyer was one of the writers on The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises , while Friedman created Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles .) The series will be produced by Skydance Television, and Asimov’s daughter Robyn will be one of the executive producers. The Foundation series (initially a set of stories published in the 1940s, then collected into book form in the ’50s and followed up by long...