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TV Connect Celebrates Winners

by Tom Allen

The winners of the TV Connect awards have been announced. Held at London’s Gherkin, the awards recognised efforts to continue to transform the industry. Winners included Swisscom AG’s Swisscom TV 2.0 (Best Multiscreen TV …

Cablevision will Offer Hulu Plus to its Customers

by Norbert Hildebrand

Cablevision announced that it will carry Hulu Plus for its Optimum customers. The agreement will be the first resell agreement Hulu is offering to any provider. According to the press release, both sides seem …

Sony Electronics Offers Extensive 4K Ultra HD Home Entertainment Solutions with New 2015 TV Lineup

by Helen Vince

Sony Electronics announced a comprehensive 4K Ultra HD TV lineup complete with picture enhancing technologies, beautiful and sleek design and a smarter TV experience. Powered by the new 4K Processor X1, the entire lineup …

Tags:sony| TV (Television)| UltraHD & 4K

TCL to Lead Global Display Industry With Curved QD TV

by Helen Vince

Chinese TV manufacturer TCL launched its TV+ Curved QD TV model H8800S-CUD on April 8, 2015, combining the industry’s leading gamut with the best curvature by integrating both the Quantum Dot display and curved …

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Corning Releases Data Sheet for its Iris Glass

by Norbert Hildebrand

Earlier this year Corning released a new glass type called Iris. We have reported on this new material before but at the time Corning only released general goals and the name of the new …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Large Display Monitor| TV (Television)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Sling TV Adds AMC Network, is Open for Business

by Norbert Hildebrand

We have reported before on Sling TV as the OTT offering from Dish Network. This new service is now open for business in the USA. The IP-based video delivery system promises many channels for …

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalyptic TV – Will TV live past China?

by Bob Raikes

Will TV live past China? by Dr Jon Peddie Philo T. Farnsworth invented Electronic TV in the US and demonstrated it on September 7, 1927, in Los Angeles. In Scotland in 1926, John Logie …

Tags:China| Forecasts| TV (Television)| Vol 22 - Issue 07

Cable and IPTV Rule Hungary

by Tom Allen

Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that there were 3.4 million pay-TV subscribers in the country at the end of 2014. More than 2 million received cable or IPTV services, 55% of whom were digital. …

It’s Official: Toshiba Leaves North American TVs

by Tom Allen

Toshiba is to cease TV development and sales in North America, and will be licensing its TV business in the region to Compal. New products will begin to arrive in March. Toshiba also has …

Samsung Makes Ambitious Tizen Plans

by Vanessa Browning

Samsung plans to sell 30 million Tizen TVs this year, a source has told Korea’s Yonhap News agency. The figure represents as much as 50% of Samsung’s projected TV sales this year.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Tizen| TV (Television)| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Hisense ULED Wins Global Annual Display Technology Award

by Helen Vince

On Jan. 7, USA local time, the winner of the Annual Display Technology Award was unveiled at the world’s largest and finest consumer electronics show taking place now in Las Vegas, with the honor going to ULED, the …

Tags:Hisense| TV (Television)| UltraHD & 4K

TV Anywhere, or TV Nowhere?

by Helen Vince

TV – A fascinating article appeared in early November in the New York Times titled For Millennials, the End of the TV Viewing Party. The author talks about the early days of television, when family and neighbors would gather …

Tags:Cable| Pay TV| TV (Television)| Vol 21 - Issue 48