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by Andrew Fenn
Comcast will bring its Xfinity pay TV service to Sony Android Smart TVs from next year. Sony’s XE7002 Android Smart TV. Previously only available via a Comcast set-top-box, the service will be fully integrated …
Tags:Android| Cable| Large Display Monitor| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 44
by Andrew Fenn
Dataxis research has found that around 40 worldwide pay TV operators have deployed Android set-top-boxes (STB) in the third quarter of 2017. Android is generally used by operators wishing to create more “over-the-top (OTT) …
Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 43
by Andrew Fenn
Greg Potter.Android TV device shipments will grow five-fold by the year 2021, according to Greg Potter at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Google could gain increased clout in the pay TV market as interest from …
Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| STBs| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 43
by Bob Raikes
When Samsung launched the Note 8, it bundled a free DeX system, which is a dock designed to work with the smartphone and providing a desktop-like experience when connected to a keyboard, mouse and …
Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 42
by Andrew Fenn
YouTube TV is coming to Android TV devices, Apple TV, Xbox and select Smart TVs. YouTube’s live television service originally launched in April 2017 and is now available across two-thirds of the United States. …
Tags:Android| Google| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41| YouTube
by Bob Raikes
Android 8.0 (Oreo) has been released on the Pixel 2 (and will come on other devices). There has been a big change ‘behind the scenes’ to the architecture to use the same version across …
Tags:Android| Colour Management & Processing| Mobile Display Monitor| | Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 39
by Andrew Fenn
Philips has begun rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to its 2016 and 2017 lines of Android-powered Smart TVs. The update will enable Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) HDR for live broadcast and streaming, as well …
Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Philips| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 38
by Andrew Fenn
While we were at IFA we missed the news that the company that claims to be “China’s leading manufacturer of flat-panel displays”, KTC, has teamed up with Germany’s NetRange to bring its Smart TV …
Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 37
by Bob Raikes
SDMC of China said that it has got Android TV certification for its DV8219 OTT TV box and said that it is only the third company in China to get the approval, after ZTE …
Tags:Android| China| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 35
by Damir Lokas
As the two main players in the mobile space, the Android and iOS operating systems are at constant odds with one another for market share and performance. In the second quarter of 2017, Android …
Tags:Android| iOS (Apple)| iPhone
by Andrew Fenn
Much like computer systems are dominated by Windows and Mac OS, the smartphone battle for supremacy is also fought by two opposing forces, Android and iOS. But which is better? Well, it’s mostly a …
Tags:Android| Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 35
by Bob Raikes
AirTies of Turkey has developed a new UltraHD TV STB for IPTV that supports the Android TV operating system, and intended for sale by operators, rather than being a retail product. Technical specs of …
Tags:Android| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 33
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