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Soniq and Seraphic Join Forces for YouTube

by Yvette Raikes

Australian smart TV maker Soniq is integrating a YouTube TV solution in partnership with browser company Seraphic. Soniq sees YouTube support as essential to gain a higher TV audience but said that gaining certification …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Verimatrix Forensic Watermarking for Samsung Smart TVs

by Milos Pavlovic

Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, and Samsung Electronics today announced an expanded partnership to ensure the 2017 line of Samsung Smart TVs …

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MStar Integrates Opera TV OTT Solution for STBs

by Milos Pavlovic

International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — Opera TV, the market leader in enabling OTT, and MStar Semiconductor, Inc., a leading semiconductor company for display and digital home solutions, today announced the availability of a …

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Customer Wins Refund for No ‘Evolution Kit’

by Bob Raikes

Flatpanels.DK has reported that a US customer had got a full refund of the cost of a Smart TV that he bought in 2013 and that was sold as being upgradable with the Evolution …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Samsung to Launch Personalized Smart TV Services at CES 2017

by Isaac Oburu

Samsung Electronics today announced it will introduce three new Smart TV services at CES 2017, to be held January 5 through January 9, 2017 in Las Vegas. The new services – including ‘Sports’, ‘Music’ …

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More than 50 Sign for Opera TV Certification

by Bob Raikes

Opera TV, which has just agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm (Opera Sells Smart TV Business), said that it has signed fifty companies to its certification programme. The aim of the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 23 - Issue 51

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Amazon Prime Now on Android TVs

by Bob Raikes

Amazon has added the Sony Android TVs from 2015 and 2016 to the devices that are now supported by the latest version of its Prime Video app. (Amazon Prime Video Now Available in More …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Smart TV| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Opera Sells Smart TV Business

by Bob Raikes

Opera Software of Norway said that it is selling it a majority stake in Opera TV to Moore Frères & Company, an investment holding company focused exclusively on the tech, media, and telecom industries. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Norway| Smart TV| Vol 23 - Issue 50

NPD Expects 239 Million Connected TVs by 2019

by Milos Pavlovic

NPD said that it expects 238 million ‘installed’ devices to be connected to the internet and able to deliver apps to TVs in the US by 2019, 59% up from the number in 2015. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| NPD| Smart TV| STBs| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Android TV 6.0 Gets to Sony TVs

by Bob Raikes

Sony has started to rollout upgrades for its Android TVs from 2015 and 2016 to Android 6.01 (Marshmallow). The roll out has already started in the US and Asia, with timing unclear on Europe …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Google Play Movies Launched on Samsung Smart TV

by Yvette Raikes

Google’s film streaming service, Google Play Movie, is now available as an app on the most recent 2016 models of Samsung’s Smart TV. Currently this does not include 4K films, but it supports up …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Smart TV| Vol 23 - Issue 48