What They Say
A hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net for pointing out a report by signageOS on the ‘Smart’ Samsung Tizen OS V6.5 that said that the OS successfully passed 53 of the 58 tests that the firm conducted and is ‘more than capable of handling typical digital signage scenarios similar to that of mainstream media players’.
The main gap at the moment, the firm said, is in a missing compatibility to playback ‘video-over-video’ scenarios using HTML5.
What We Think
I remembered giving a talk to Samsung in the UK many years ago on this topic. I dug it out and it turns out to have been nearly 13 years ago. I couldn’t resist including this graphic. At the time, NEC was much stronger in the market than it is now (as Sharp NEC for now although I expect that to migrate just to Sharp eventually). Dave Haynes pointed out that NEC is the one key player that doesn’t have smart displays, but as I pointed out in 2009, that it did not have a TV business, unlike LG and Samsung (and Sony and Panasonic). That put it at a particular disadvantage as having a TV business meant that there was going to be expertise and scale in integrating SoCs into displays. (BR)
