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The Xumo Stream Box is Out

by Shawnee Blackwood

Comcast states the goal is to spend less time searching for content and more time watching it .

Tags:Comcast| CTV| STB| streaming| Xumo

Why Buy a TV When It Could Be Free

by Omid Rahmat

Buying a TV is becoming a subscription service.

We really like movies. In fact, we watched two pretty decent movies last weekend. Clicked through our streaming services, found a couple on our “gotta catch this” list and watched them. It’s been that …

Sky sheds 200,000 subs in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the report on Q4 from parent company, Comcast, Sky is reported to have lost 198K subscribers in the UK, Germany and Italy. Revenue was down in Q4 by 2.4% to …

Tags:Comcast| Europe| Financial Data| Sky

Why Does matter Matter?

by Bob Raikes

We haven’t been covering smart home developments very much on Display Daily, but during CES I saw a number of references to support for ‘Matter’. So I thought I’d investigate to see if it …

Comcast Launches its XClass SmartTV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was just catching up with a story about Comcast being about to launch its XClass TVs in the US when I spotted that it has happened. The TVs are being …

Tags:Comcast| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Sky ‘planning own range of smart TVs’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sky TV is reported by the Financial Times to be planning to launch its own range of smartTVs. That would be in line with the move by its parent company, Comcast, …

Tags:Comcast| Sky| STBs| Streaming Video

Why Comcast is getting into the smart TV business

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We published a link last week to an article that reported that Comcast was planning to get into the SmartTV market in the US. The Protocol published an article that looked …

Links Week Ending 17th September 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV on Five …

Move Over, Samsung! (And LG, and TCL, and Hisense, and Sony, and Vizio, and….)

by Pete Putman

A recent report in the Wall Street Journal and on the Fierce Video site details Comcast’s efforts to expand the reach of its video-over-IP X1 platform. Apparently, the company has been working with Hisense …

Tags:Comcast| TV Set Market| USA

Links Week Commencing 28th June 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Sharp Europe launches new ‘Frameless’ 4K Android …

Comcast confirms interest in putting X1 on smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Comcast is thinking about licensing its X1 video platform, used in its cable and broadband devices, to Smart TV makers. X1 is the base for the firm’s Flex platform for broadband-only …

Tags:Comcast| Operating Systems| Smart TV