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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 …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Metasurfaces| Oculus VR| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Optics| Remote Controls| Roku| Samsung| STBs

Links 15th December 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. We normally put these out on Tuesday and Friday, but we have already built up quite a few, …

Tags:Android| Apple| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Game Playing| iPhone| LG Electronics (LGE)| Remote Controls| Retailers| Smart TV| STBs| Virtual Sets

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ZTE Launches Two New STBs, Supporting RDK and CBS Respectively

by Artem Alekseenko

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, has launched two new set-top boxes (STBs), a 4K IP STB ZXV10 B870V2J supporting Reference Design Kit …

Tags:STBs| ZTE

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Streaming Sticks and Dongles Going Well in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU said that over a million media boxes and streaming sticks have been sold in Germany this year by Q3. Sales in the first three quarters of the year reached …

Tags:Germany| Market Data| STBs| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video

Links Week Ending 26th November 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. LG 2022 OLED TVs: 42″ C2, 83″ …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| Germany| LG Electronics (LGE)| Microdisplays| OLED TVs| OLEDs| Panasonic| Recruitment & Appointments| Semiconductor Market| Smart TV| Sports and Stadiums| STBs| Thin Clients| Vodafone| Wi-Fi

TV as an App – With Cloud Support

by Bob Raikes

Back at CES in 2010, I met in a hotel suite with a firm that had a new approach to TV that struck me as significant, useful and important. A friend had gone to …

Tags:AVOD| Cloud TV| Pay TV| STBs| Streaming Video| SVOD

When is a TV not a TV?

by Bob Raikes

Yesterday, Comcast’s UK subsidiary, Sky UK, released its new Glass TV. But is it a TV? One TV-focused website said ‘These are fairly conventional TVs’. I beg to disagree. Since the start of the …

Tags:Sky| STBs| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)

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

Report: 25% of global advanced STBs running on Android TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dataxis reported the market shares of advanced set-top box middleware in the installed base. It highlighted that Android TV has dropped from 40% in 2015 to around 25% now, as RDK, …

Tags:Android| Operating Systems| Roku| STBs

Links Week Ending 10th 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. Samsung reveals plans to develop 576MP smartphone …

Tags:Acer| Android| Cameras| Desktop Monitors| MiniLED| Notebooks| OLED Materials| OLEDs| STBs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)