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Google’s film streaming service, Google Play Movie, is now available as an app on the most recent 2016 models of Samsung’s Smart TV. Currently this does not include 4K films, but it supports up to 1080p HD and the catalogue has mostly Hollywood movies.
Lang AG will be selling LG’s 55EH5C double sided OLED screen in Germany. The company is also putting the product into its rental fleet.
The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29 percent, and 30 percent for fitness trackers, because people do not find them useful, they get bored of them or they break, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. “Dropout from device usage is a serious problem for the industry,” said Angela McIntyre, research director at Gartner. “The … Read more
Gartner said that it has surveyed 9,592 online respondents from Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. between June and August 2016, to gain a better understanding of consumers’ attitudes toward wearables, particularly their buying behavior for smartwatches, fitness trackers and virtual reality (VR) glasses. The survey highlighted that the abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29%, … Read more
Reports from Asia have highlighted that raw material price rises of up to 30% to 40% are causing LED chip makers to raise prices by about 10%. This is expected to lead to subsequent increases from LED packagers.
HTC’s turnover for November fell 25% YoY to NTD7.67 billion ($241.2 million), resulting in year-to-date revenue of NTD71.76 billion ($2.26 billion), down 38%. December is also expected to be poor and HTC says that it will end the year in the red. The company cited slower sales of its own smartphones and low profits from … Read more
Amtran Technology posted its November figures, showing shipments of 340,000 LCD TVs and monitors. This brought year-to-date numbers to 2.92 million, up 60% YoY. The company saw turnover of NTD3.49 billion ($109.7 million) in November, up 46% YoY, bringing revenue for January to November to NTD23.44 billion ($736.4 million), up 29%.
Tele Columbus, Germany’s third-largest cable operator, will launch its new advanceTV product on 16 January 2017. It offers its customers a leapfrog entertainment platform providing linear and video-on-demand content anytime on the TV set and on mobile devices in the household in best quality. In conjunction with a top cable receiver and an intuitive user … Read more
TeleColumbus in Germany, and the third largest cable operator in the country, will launch a new advanceTV platform on 16th January 2017. The box allows PVR, OTT, PayTV and PPV movies as well as linear TV and supports the Maxdome service and UltraHD. VOD content is also to be made available to customer’s devices when … Read more
Vizio has added support for the Xumo VOD app on its smart TVs and supports it on its SmartCast TVs. Vizio said that its SmartCast app has been recently updated to provide users with a more streamlined setup and faster overall experience, allowing users to simultaneously search and browse content across multiple apps by genre … Read more
The HbbTV Association has announced the release of test suite version 9.0 which will support the HbbTV 2 specification. The new test suite expands on the existing suite, making it 50% larger with an additional 350 new tests covering HbbTV 2 functionality. It will also improve test coverage of the widely adopted HbbTV 1.1 and … Read more
Optoma has announced the ZU510T which is a 5,500 lumen 1920 x 1200 DLP laser phosphor projector and is designed to support 30,000 hour of life with a new design that is intended to be dust resistant (IP5X). The company said that at 5,000 hours of use, there is very little change in brightness. Colour … Read more
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