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by Bob Raikes
What They Say Mirada has said that it is working with a Mexican TV service operator, Izzi, to roll out a version of its Iris front end for Android TV that will work on …
Tags:Android| Cable| Latin America (Latam)| OTT Video| Streaming Video
by Artem Alekseenko
Christie®, a world leading visual technologies company, announced that, pursuant to a filing in 2018, the U.S Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has issued Christie a U.S. patent under US10783282B2 on September 22, 2020, …
Tags:Christie| Patents| Streaming Video
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Netflix published a blog post to say that it is to use its latest codec schemes including per-title encode optimisations and per-shot dynamic optimisation on its back catalogue to reduce the …
Tags:Codecs| Netflix| Streaming Video
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Disney movies can now be rented and purchased from the Apple iTunes Store in UltraHD with HDR. Buyers of the 1080P version will get an automatic upgrade. The article lists 82 …
Tags:Disney| Streaming Video| UltraHD
by Pete Putman
Two news stories crossed my desk recently that perfectly illustrate the old saw “One Man’s Gain Is Another’s Man’s Loss”. The first was a summary in Media Play News of a report from Digital …
Tags:Cinema| Cinema going| Disney| Streaming Video| SVOD
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Apple has updated its macOS to ‘Big Sur’ and will allow some 2018/2019 and 2020 Apple systems to replay Netflix content in UltraHD. The article suggests that this is because the …
Tags:Netflix| Streaming Video| SVOD| UltraHD & 4K
by Andy Marken
Netflix’s Reid Hastings had the streaming stage to himself since about 2000 but it got so crowded that this year, the board “encouraged” Ted Sandaros to join him as co-CEO and the two are …
Tags:Cinema| Streaming Video| SVOD
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Roku has added new products. The Roku Ultra adds Dolby Vision support, Atmos and Bluetooth. It supports the AV1 codec. It has a remote that supports voice and headphones and the …
Tags:Codecs| Dolby Vision| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The number of US Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) subscribers will grow from 203 million last year to 317 million by 2025. Netflix will add 10 million subscribers, but the big winners will …
Tags:Streaming Video| SVOD| USA
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Sling TV has introduced a ‘watch party’ feature to allow enhanced viewing of streamed content with the addition of text and video alongside the main video images. It needs a Chrome …
Tags:Streaming Video
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Amazon has new Fire TV sticks. The Lite version ($29.99) has FullHD with HDR (HLG, HDR10, HDR10+) while the Fire TV stick ($39.99) adds Dolby Atmos. Although the sticks support HDR …
Tags:Amazon| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Samsung’s TV Plus streaming app is one of the five most-used apps and the second most popular free video app on Samsung smart TVs. The free channel is streaming “billions of …
Tags:Advertising| Samsung| Smart TV| Streaming Video
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