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Roku Gives TV Advertisers Audience Guarantees

by Alan Spencer

Roku can now give audience guarantees to TV advertisers, so that marketers can now measure campaigns using detailed demographic metrics, comparable to linear TV with Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings. With the addition of demographic …

Tags:Advertising| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Roku Now Has Over 13 million Active Customers

by Alan Spencer

Roku had 13.4 million active customers at the end of 2016 and they streamed nine billion hours of video and music in the year, including one billion hours in December 2016. According to Nielsen, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| Vol 24 - Issue 08

CES 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Analogix was showing how its DisplayPort-based Slimport products could be used for VR applications, especially as it has developed SlimPort to MIPI display controllers that are available in single MIPI, dual Mipi or dual …

Tags:Blue Light| CES 2017| Corning| DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| TCL| Touch| Unipixel| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 02| WiGIG| Xiaomi| ZTE

TV OS, UI and Delivery News

by Chris Chinnock

The integration of third party Operating Systems (OS) into TV and bundling of content from a wide array of sources, picked up steam at CES 2017. The range of solutions seems to be consolidating …

Tags:Amazon| CES 2017| Dish Network| Google| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| OTT Video| Roku| TCL| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Hisense Focuses on LaserCast TV and HDR-compatible Models

by Chris Chinnock

Hisense, which also manages the Sharp brand in North America, came to CES to showcase two type of large screen display solutions. This included the projection-based Laser Cast TV and a full range of …

Tags:CES 2017| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Roku| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 24 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Sling TV Introduces Cloud DVR, to Debut in Beta for Select Roku Users

by Isaac Oburu

Starting today, Sling TV customers may request an invitation to participate in its cloud DVR beta program. Available first to eligible Sling TV customers using Roku™ streaming players and Roku TV™s, the cloud DVR …

Tags:PVRs (DVRs) Personal Digital Video Recorders| Roku| Sling TV

Sling TV Offers Cloud DVR beta to Roku Users

by Bob Raikes

SlingTV has invited its customers, starting with those using Roku systems, to join in a beta programme for a cloud-based service. The service claims to be the only cloud DVR with no 28-day restriction …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Roku Plans OS 7.5 Upgrade

by Bob Raikes

Roku is planning to roll out Version 7.5 of its OS and will bring new features in Live TV pause (when OTA TV is being accessed and if the TV has a USB storage …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Two New Roku Boxes Support HDR

by Bob Raikes

After a series of rumours, Roku has now announced a complete line of four new boxes, along with a special version for Walmart. The Roku Express is a FullHD box replaces the Roku 1 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Canada’s VMedia launches live TV on Roku TVs and players

by Isaac Oburu

VMedia Inc. today announced the launch of its VMedia TV streaming channel on the Roku® streaming platform in Canada. With VMedia TV, consumers will be able to watch up to 20 live TV channels, …

Tags:Roku| Streaming Video

VMedia Now Live on Roku TVs and players

by Isaac Oburu

VMedia Inc. has announced today that it has launched its streaming channel, VMedia TV, on the Roku streaming platform in Canada. VMedia TV will have up to 20 live TV channels such as CTV, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| North America| OTT Video| Roku| Vol 23 - Issue 37