Consoles – Page 10 – Display Daily

Sony Merges Playstation Units

by Tom Allen

Sony Computer Entertainment has been merged with Sony Network Entertainment, to form a new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. The new company will deal with all of Sony’s Playstation business – hardware, software, the …

Limelight Report Shows Online Video Increasingly Watched on Consumers’ Own Terms

by Tom Allen

The shift in consumer online video viewing habits is changing rapidly, according the latest survey of more than 1,200 consumers from Limelight Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: LLNW), a global leader in digital content delivery. According …

Tags:Consoles| Smart TV| STBs| Streaming Video| VOD

Prepare for Battle: Gear Up to Tackle eSports

by Tom Allen

My attention was caught recently by a whitepaper from Juniper Research, titled ‘eSports – Gamers’ New MVP?‘, which goes into detail to examine today’s fast-growing ‘electronic sports’ scene. These are games played competitively on …

Tags:Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 49

221 million connected TV devices to ship this year

by Isaac Oburu

Competition for control of the living room between Apple, Roku, Google and Amazon is intensifying as each brand looks to establish an advantage over the other through the launch of new innovative device hardware …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| Consoles| Media Players| Smart TV| Streaming Dongles

Roku Leads Streaming Media Players

by Tom Allen

More data on streaming devices has been released by Parks Associates, in addition to the prediction that the company made last month (Parks: Streaming Devices Will Rise 186%). ‘An increasing number’ of US broadband …

PEW Releases Technical Device Ownership Data

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a new survey, the PEW Research Center released the latest data on technical device ownership in the USA. The survey was taken in the March / April and June / July 2015 time …

Half a Billion New Connected TVs in Five Years

by Tom Allen

The number of connected TVs worldwide will reach 876 million by 2020 – up from 105 million in 2010 and 415 million at end-2015, says Digital TV Research. In percentage terms, the 876 million …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 23

by Tom Allen

The Geforce GTX 980 GPU, Nvidia‘s newest flagship, is now even more powerful. The company has updated the card in the form of the new GTX 980Ti, with support for UltraHD gaming at an …

Very Early Specs Appear for Nvidia Shield 2

by Tom Allen

GFX Bench has benchmarked a new device simply listed as the ‘Shield Portable’, which is believed to refer to the second-generation Nvidia Shield handheld console. The specs may not be finalised, or accurate; for …

Tags:Consoles| Handhelds| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 22 - Issue 22

PS4 Reaches UK Milestone

by Tom Allen

GfK Chart-Track data shows that 2 million units of Sony’s Playstation console have been sold in the UK to-date. The console has been on sale for 18 months – reaching the 2-million-unit mark faster …

Streaming More Popular Than Linear TV

by Tom Allen

Deloitte’s Digital Democracy survey shows that streaming popularity is continuing to climb across the USA. Such services are now used by more than 42% of households in the country, with streaming content having overtaken …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Xbox TV Support Crosses Atlantic

by Tom Allen

Members of the Xbox Preview programme in the USA and Canada can now start watching live TV through their console. Xbox owners will need to buy an OTA TV tuner from Hauppauge, as well …