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The Electrowetting Windmill Keeps on Turning – bringing Etulipa from Eindhoven

by Bob Raikes

(Etulipa from Amsterdam would have been a better title, but to be accurate the song probably should have been Tulips from Keukenhof and that doesn’t scan!) I have been following the technology of electrowetting …

WOLED TVs, QD-OLED TVs, and Neo QLED TVs in Fierce Price Competition in the Premium TV Market

by Artem Alekseenko

We experienced fierce price competition in the first half of 2022 among premium TVs with a launch price of $2,000 or more. It will be interesting to see how the Amazon Prime Day event …

Tags:Amazon| OLED TVs| QD OLEDs| Samsung| WOLED (White OLED)

Links Week Ending 22nd April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon is quietly developing a ‘new-to-world’ …

AR and VR are coming for the primary school crowd

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment reported that although Meta has said that its Quest 2 headset is for ages 13 and up (which gets around US regulations that apply to 12s and under), others …

Tags:Amazon| Augmented Reality

Amazon And MGM Close $8.5 Billion Merger

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon and MGM announced that a deal for the tech giant to buy the studio for $8.5 billion had closed. MGM has a library of 4,000 films and 17,000 TV show …

Tags:Amazon| AVOD| Movies & Content| SVOD

Roku CEO predicts LG, Samsung and Vizio will Give Up their Own TV OSes

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, that smartTV makers will ‘eventually’ give up and license operating systems from Roku, Amazon or Google. He sees an …

Streaming is Old at Two

by Andy Marken

Looking down from the top of the Hollywood Hills, it’s impossible to imagine what a beating the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry has taken in recent years. According to many, it’s all been caused …

Omdia: Sharp Drop in 2021 Amazon Alexa Shipments Drove Smart Speaker Market “Correction”

by Artem Alekseenko

A sharp drop in shipments of the Amazon Alexa drove a “correction” in the U.S. smart speaker market in 2021, with sales resuming a more normalized growth rate after record shipments in 2020, according …

Tags:Amazon| Analytics & Tools| Apple| Google

150 million Fire TV devices sold by Amazon

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon said that it and its partners have shipped more than 150 million devices based on the Fire TV OS since 2014. It revealed this in its quarterly earnings statement and …

Tags:Amazon| Automotive| Operating Systems| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

Content is a Small Part of Streaming Leadership

by Andy Marken

Shortly after Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first web site, someone made the profound statement that, “if it’s on the Internet, it should be free!” So, how’s that working out for you? “Head down, …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Netflix| Streaming Video| SVOD

Links Week Ending 4th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in …

Strategy Analytics: Microsoft Breaks into Top Five Tablet Vendors amid Strong Productivity Demand

by Artem Alekseenko

Microsoft cashed in on the need for mobile productivity devices with its massive Surface portfolio refresh and joined the ranks of the top global tablet vendors for the first time ever. Meanwhile, most vendors …