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Xperi Expands on the Vewd Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The acquisition of Vewd by Xperi (the owner of Tivo) was announced a couple of days ago (Xperi Acquires Vewd Software) and Next|TV caught up with the Experi Products Chief, Geir …

Tags:Android| Google| Roku| Tivo| TVs (TV Sets)

Will Streaming Take Over?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kagan said after a survey of US adult internet uses that it estimates that US households used 6.8 streaming video services on average in March 2022. The result showed that paid …

Tags:Advertising| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| USA

Roku / Netflix Acquisition Rumor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week there were rumours that Roku was to be bought by Neflix. Commentators speculated that Netflix could use such an acquisition to accelerate its expected advertising-subsidised membership plans. From Roku’s …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Netflix| Roku

Links Week Starting 23rd May 2022

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. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

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 …

Roku Planning to Make its Own TVs?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Insider reports that Roku is exploring the feasibility of making its own brand of smartTVs and apparently ran a focus group. Someone told the blog: “They showed different models, feature …

Tags:Roku| Smart TV| USA

Smart TV Viewing Time Surges, Dongles Decline

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment reported data from Conviva that showed that we have reached a tipping point in the use of streaming dongles. Global viewing using dongles declined by 2% in the year …

Links Week Ending 21st January 2022

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. (quite a few this week as we …

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Google Claims 110M Devices Using Google and Android TV OS

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google reported that Google TV and Android TV now have over 110 million active monthly devices, up by 30 million since May. Some of those devices will be Chromecast devices which …

Links Week Starting 3rd January 2022

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. I spotted the chart below on the …

Roku Says ITC Ruling Won’t Harm its Imports

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on a release (Roku & UEI Slug it Out over Patents) by Universal Electronics last week that claimed success in a patent dispute with Roku and which, it said, …

Tags:Litigation| Patents| Roku

Roku & UEI Slug it Out over Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Universal Electronics (UEI), the remote control specialist, said that it has won a dispute with Roku over a patent issue. The decision was given by the US ITC and applies also …