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Strategy Analytics: Highest Ever Samsung Smart TV Sales Push Global Tizen OS Base to 155 Million

by Artem Alekseenko

Samsung sold 11.8 million smart TVs worldwide in Q3 2020, the best ever quarter by Samsung or any other vendor, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ TV Streaming Platforms service. Samsung’s Q3 …

Tags:Samsung| Smart TV| Streaming Video

Samsung’s free TV service is coming to more Galaxy phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung developed its TV Plus service to provide content to the brand’s smartTV systems. Now it has been rolled out to Galaxy Z Fold2, Z Flip, and original Galaxy Fold. The …

Tags:OTT Video| Samsung| Smartphones| Streaming Video

Sub-second video latency from Limelight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Limelight Networks said that it can supply online streamed video on a global scale with ‘sub-second latency’. This should allow interactive video applications and the following applications. Live sports – In-event …

Tags:Game Playing| Streaming Video

Useful Links for first half of W/E 20th November 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Enthusiast Gaming launches channel on Samsung TVs PlayStation 5 launch: What you should know (Useful display specification listing) Disney+ 73m global subs Epson And Yamaha Join Forces On New Laser TV …

Short Mobile Viewing is Nice but People Like Long Stories

by Andy Marken

I don’t know about you, but we’re getting awfully tired of looking up people’s noses during Zoom meetings. It probably doesn’t bother you; but one of our college degrees was in radio & TV, …

Tags:5G| Movies & Content| Streaming Video

Slingbox Stops Service in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sling Media said that it would discontinue the supply its Slingbox products with immediate effect and would discontinue its support of the service in two years time in November 2022. The …

Tags:STBs| Streaming Video

SVOD penetration at 80% of TV households in US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to Leichtman Research Group, 60% of US households have both a pay TV service and at least one SVOD subscription. A further 20% of households have an SVOD subscription but …

Tags:Pay TV| Streaming Video| USA

Xiaomi Mi Box 4S Pro is an 8K Android TV box that costs just $60 in China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi has launched the Mi Box 4S Pro, an 8K Android-based streaming STB in China that is selling for just $60 (Yuan 399). It’s got an upgraded 16GB of storage, HDMI …

Tags:Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Xiaomi

V-Nova completes MPEG-5 LCEVC standard

by Bob Raikes

What They Say V-Nova said that it has made “a milestone achievement” in MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC (Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding) being promoted to MPEG/ISO final draft international standard. V-Nova co-chaired the standard’s …

Tags:Codecs| MPEG| Streaming Video

Apple TV is coming to Xbox consoles on November 10th

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I saw a stream of articles that highlighted that the Apple TV app will come to X-Box in a week or so. The Verge reports that it will also be on …

Tags:Apple| Consoles| PlayStation| Streaming Video| xBox

Modelling audiovisual sector revenue flows in the EU

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The European Audiovisual Observatory has published a report on how revenue flows in the audiovisual sector flow in the EU. The aim of the report was to develop a model for …

Google Requires AV1 Support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google will require Android TV device makers to support the AV1 codec from April 1st 2021. The latest Fire TVs (from Toshiba and others) have already got support and Netflix is …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Streaming Video