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Slingbox Stops Service in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sling Media said that it would discontinue the supply its Slingbox products with immediate effect and would discontinue its support of the service in two years time in November 2022. The …

Tags:STBs| Streaming Video

SVOD penetration at 80% of TV households in US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to Leichtman Research Group, 60% of US households have both a pay TV service and at least one SVOD subscription. A further 20% of households have an SVOD subscription but …

Tags:Pay TV| Streaming Video| USA

Sky Deutschland to Chop More SD

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sky Deutschland is switching more of its SD channels to be exclusively HD on its cable service on November 26th 2020. The HD channels are available at no extra charge. On …

Tags:Cable| Germany| Sky| TV Viewing

We Catch up with Sharp NEC Display Solutions

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, NEC Display Solutions became a joint venture subsidiary of Sharp and is now Sharp NEC Display Solutions. (Newly Born Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. Starts Business) What We …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| NEC| sharp

Apple Puts Taiwanese Supplier Pegatron On Probation Over Student Workers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has put Pegatron ‘on probation’ as a supplier because the company had not correctly handled student workers. Pegatron will not get new contracts until all corrective actions have been taken. …

Tags:Apple| Employment and Redundancies

Nokia to Ship Android TV-powered Smart TVs and OTT Boxes to Europe

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nokia has licensed its brand to be used for Android-based smart TVs (32″ 1080P and 43″and 75″ UltraHD) to be sold in the DACH countries (Germany. Austria and Switzerland). They have …

Tags:Germany| Nokia| TVs (TV Sets)

Apple’s Warranties & Service Contracts

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week has had a deep dive into Apple’s warranty and extended warranty business and found that the company has been doing better and better over recent years. IT’s warranty accruals …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| warranty

LG Brings Projection into the Meeting Room

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG has stared to ship the BU50NST a 5000 ANSI Lumen LP UltraHD single 0.47″ chip DLP projector that was originally announced in June. It has a zoom (1.6X) lens and …

Tags:Laser Phosphor Projectors| LG Electronics (LGE)

Xiaomi Mi Box 4S Pro is an 8K Android TV box that costs just $60 in China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi has launched the Mi Box 4S Pro, an 8K Android-based streaming STB in China that is selling for just $60 (Yuan 399). It’s got an upgraded 16GB of storage, HDMI …

Tags:Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Xiaomi

Roku Well Up in Q3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Roku reported revenues up 73% year on year to $452 million in Q3 2020 with gross profit up 81% to $215 million. Operating profit was up to $12 million against a …

Tags:Financial Data| Roku

Sharp’s first-half net profit falls 17.8%

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sharp saw sales up 1.9% to $10.78 billion for the first half of its fiscal 2020, but saw profits decline 17.8% as sales of office printers dropped. The company expects to …

Tags:Financial Data| sharp

HC SemiTek Ships miniLEDs to Innolux, LG

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported a couple of days ago on the Innolux demonstrations of miniLED and microLED at an event in Taiwan (OPTO Taiwan 2020 Live Coverage – Innolux and PlayNitride Unveil New …

Tags:Innolux| MicroLED| MiniLED