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Cord Cutting Nearly Doubled For the Big Four U.S. Pay TV Providers in 2020

What They Say 5.1 million US consumer households joined the cord-cutting trend in 2020. AT&T was the biggest loser , while Dish Network saw less of a decline. Charter actually added some 56K subscribers as it rolled out high speed internet. Combined, the Big Four operators lost 2.63 million customers in 2019. In 2020, they … Read more

Multi-brand TV Manufacturer Vestel Brings Twitch to Smart TVs across Europe

Multi-brand TV manufacturer, Vestel, has announced the launch of a new app collaboration that is set to bring the leading interactive livestreaming service, Twitch to more Smart TVs across Europe. Now available, the app has been rolled out to all Vestel-manufactured Smart TV ranges, including those designed for many top brands, such as Hitachi, JVC, … Read more

Miraj Cinemas Partners with Galalite for their 100-Screen Project

Forging partnerships and building relationships with fellow businesses are vital to the progress of a business in any industry, and the cinema industry is no different. Galalite Screens, the leader in cinema screen technologies, has announced a strategic partnership with the Miraj Group, which includes providing 100 screens to Miraj Cinemas in the next 15 … Read more

How Much Contrast do You Need in a Monitor for Photography?

Those that are interested in photography and are keen to get good results know that they need a good monitor and in particular one with good colour quality and contrast. But how much contrast do you need? My attention was drawn to this topic in a review of photographic technology by Dan Wells and published … Read more

LG launches new office-use projectors in S. Korea

What They Say The Korea Herald reported that LG has launched new office projectors in S. Korea. The BU60PST and BF60PST ProBeam projectors are based on lasers, although details weren’t given. The new models have 6.000 Ansi Lumens of output, up from 5,000 on the previous BU50NST L/P model. The BU6PST has UltraHD resoloution, from … Read more

Amino Flexibility Enables Cablenet to Meet the Challenges of Android TV on a Hybrid Architecture

Amino, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, announced that Cablenet, the number one cable operator in Cyprus, has begun to roll-out Amigo 7XC Android TV set-top boxes to its cable and fiber customers. Following extensive lab and field tests, the roll-out began in December 2020. Amino is providing Cablenet with the AminoOS powered … Read more

Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Declined 5% in Fourth Quarter of 2020

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Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 5.4% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales declined 12.5% in full year 2020. “The sales of more 5G smartphones and lower-to-mid-tier smartphones minimized the market decline in the fourth quarter of 2020,” said Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner. “Even … Read more

Chinese monitor market to grow 3% in 2021

What They Say Sigmaintell that said that sales of monitors in the Chinese market in 2020 were 34.5 million units. The forecast for 2021 is 3% in volume to 35.6 million units. 144Hz monitors have become the ‘mainstream’ according to the report and there has been an increase in popularity of 165Hz and even 240Hz … Read more

Steering Board approves DVB-TA watermarking and DVB Home Broadcast spec

What They Say The DVB Steering Board has approved a new and an updated specification. The update was to the DVB Targeted Advertising specification to include watermarking as an alternative way to signal where content can be inserted in a broadcast. The new specification (DVB-HB/DVB Home Broadcast) allows client devices likes smartphones, tablets or HDMI … Read more