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Roku & Google Make Up

by Bob Raikes

What They Say NextTV reports that Roku and Google have finally resolved their dispute over the carriage of YouTube and YouTube TV in a multi-year agreement. The dispute had gone on since April and …

Tags:Google| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| YouTube

Panasonic Adds Apple TV to 2017-21 Sets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FlatPanelsHD reported that Panasonic has added support for Apple TV+ on 2017-2021 OLED and LCD TVs that have the ‘My Home Screen’ platform in Europe. What We Think It’s unusual to …

Tags:Apple| Panasonic| Streaming Video| SVOD

Sport on TV – Again – the Technology Matters

by Bob Raikes

I’m following up Andy Marken’s article yesterday (Watching Sports Is Fun and Game/Industry Changing) on sport and its importance for Pay TV and for TV viewing in general and the development of streaming. Unlike …

Tags:Streaming Video| TV Viewing

Watching Sports Is Fun … and Game/Industry Changing

by Andy Marken

I don’t quite get why people are so wild about watching sports. I just know they have since before the Roman Empire. Back then people would sit in the bleachers and cheer as two …

Tags:Pay TV| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video| TV Viewing

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

Behind the Screens: The Emerging Viewership Landscape

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has been building a business, run by Samsung Ads, to develop and exploit the huge installed base of Samsung SmartTVs and the firm has published, through DTV Europe, an interesting analysis of how …

Creating an 8K Channel “Not That Hard” Says TCL

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association followed up the release by TCL about its 8K channel for its Roku-based Series 6 sets (Links Week Ending 19th November 2021). The organisation got Ben Schwarz to …

Tags:Roku| Streaming Video| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TCL

Sony Integrates More HD+

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has added support for the HD+ service in Germany following a deal with the German TV platform earlier this year. The support will be on all XR 8K LED, 4K …

Tags:Germany| HD+ (Germany)| sony| Streaming Video

Links Week Commencing 29th 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 first part of this week. Mobile phone museum celebrates ugly and iconic …

Omdia Updates on Streaming and HbbTV

by Bob Raikes

HbbTV held its 9th Symposium and Awards event in Paris – a mixture of the live and virtual. We picked up on the live stream and were interested to hear what Paul Gray, Director …

Sky Glass Gets a Review

by Bob Raikes

What They Say What HiFi in the UK has reviewed the Sky Glass streaming TV from Sky. The review starts out by pointing out that because of the extra costs for the service cost, …

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

Hollyland’s COSMO C1 is a Game Changer for Wireless Video Live Streaming

by Artem Alekseenko

The newest member of Hollyland’s COSMO series, the COSMO C1, establishes a new standard for real-time video monitoring at up to 1,000ft line-of-sight, thanks to Hollyland’s transformative HEVO wireless transmission technology. With COSMO C1, …

Tags:Streaming Video| wireless communications