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4C Insights Integrates Inscape’s Smart TV Data

by Andrew Fenn

4C Insights, a data science and marketing technology company in the US, has announced a deal to integrate automatic content recognition from Inscape with data from SmartTVs. Through the partnership, marketers can now access …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Smart TV| Vizio| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Kagan: 37.2 Million US Households to Go Broadband-Only by 2022

by Andrew Fenn

Broadband-only households in the US are set to grow from 19 million in 2017 to 37.2 million by 2022, according to estimates from Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Tony …

Tags:broadband| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 06

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Arris Wins Bell Canada STBs

by Bob Raikes

Bell Canada will offer a new STB from Arris to customers of its Fibe TV service. The service will be based on the Ericsson MediaFirst platform and features supported will include UltraHD resolution, HDR …

Tags:Canada| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Vizio Introduces Alexa Support to Select SmartCast Displays

by Andrew Fenn

Vizio has announced the introduction of the Vizio SmartCast skill for Amazon Alexa, enabling voice control of the company’s 2017 and 2016 SmartCast P, M, and E-Series Ultra HD display collections. Users with an …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Vizio| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Alexa and Google Assistant Support Coming to Panasonic 2018 TVs

by Andrew Fenn

Panasonic has announced that support for both Alexa and Google Assistant voice assistants is coming to the company’s 2018 line of TVs, including its flagship OLED range. Support will be added in a forthcoming …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| TVs (TV Sets)| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 06

IHS: Half a Billion Devices with Wireless Power Technology Shipped in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

Led by mobile phones, small appliances and wearables, shipments of consumer electronics devices enabled with wireless charging rose 40% in 2017, compared to the previous year. In all, nearly 500 million devices with wireless …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 06| Wireless Charging

Service Electric Cablevision Selects TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform

by Andrew Fenn

TiVo has announced that Service Electric Cablevision, a provider of internet, TV, phone residential and commercial services to Pennsylvania, USA, has chosen TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform to bring entertainment services to its customers. Service Electric …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| Tivo| Vol 25 - Issue 06

MX1 Provides Content Aggregation for 1&1 TV Offerings

by Andrew Fenn

MX1, a global solution provider of media services, announced today that it is providing content aggregation for a number of channels from 1&1’s newest TV offerings. Claimed to be Germany’s first fully cloud-based TV …

Tags:broadband| Cloud TV| Germany| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Canal Digital Launches OnePlace TV Platform Featuring 3SS UI

by Andrew Fenn

Canal Digital has launched its new Android-based OTT-satellite hybrid TV platform for STBs, OnePlace, in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. The platform features a newly-designed front end and user interface created by 3 Screen …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Nordics| STBs| Vol 25 - Issue 06

YouTube CEO Announces Red Service Rollout to 100 More Countries

by Andrew Fenn

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has announced that its paid subscription service, YouTube Red, will roll out to a hundred more countries this year. Wojcicki also described Red as “really a music service” alluding to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 06| YouTube

Innolux President Predicts a Bright 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Innolux president Robert Hsiao has revealed the company is feeling optimistic about 2018, expecting a boost to its performance over that seen last year, according to Digitimes. Hsiao predicts a 7-9% quarter-on-quarter drop in …

Tags:Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 06

Sony Announces Price of New A8F OLED TV

by Andrew Fenn

Sony has topped off its recent pricing announcement by confirming the price of its new A8F OLED model in the US. (Sony Announces Pricing for 2018 LCD TVs) The 55″ model from the new …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Pricing| sony| Vol 25 - Issue 06