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Will your next TV really be a $1 AR app?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Protocol Next Up newsletter picked up on a comment by Mark Zuckerberg last week that “Lots of things that are physical today, like screens, will just be holograms in the …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Holography| The Metaverse| TV Viewing| TVs (TV Sets)

Apple WWDC: Tech Giant Makes Co-Viewing Core Part of Screen Experience

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference. There was lots of news, but not a lot related to displays that we spotted. However, the company did say that it is working to …

Tags:Apple| TV Viewing

Links Week Ending 5th March 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. Sharp NEC Pulls out of ISE 2021 …

Data: Smart TVs see 157% YoY increase in viewing hours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Conviva said that in the last year the time spent streaming TV in Europe had grown 122% while globally there was an increase of 157% in viewing hours using SmartTVs. That …

Tags:Smart TV| TV Viewing

Cord Cutting Nearly Doubled For the Big Four U.S. Pay TV Providers in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 5.1 million US consumer households joined the cord-cutting trend in 2020. AT&T was the biggest loser , while Dish Network saw less of a decline. Charter actually added some 56K subscribers …

Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Pay TV| TV Viewing

Research: 55% US pay-TV homes swayed by sport to keep service

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Parks Associates said that 55% of US pay-TV households see live sports coverage as an important part of their decision to keep Pay TV services. Separately, a report on viewing of …

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

Analyst: Will SVoDs replace pay-TV?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced TV blog published an article based on a presentation by Tristan Veale of Futuresouce Consulting that sets out the competition between Pay TV ($127 billion in 2020) and SVoD ($55 …

Tags:Broadcast| SVOD| TV Viewing

Sky Deutschland to Chop More SD

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sky Deutschland is switching more of its SD channels to be exclusively HD on its cable service on November 26th 2020. The HD channels are available at no extra charge. On …

Tags:Cable| Germany| Sky| TV Viewing

Samsung: UK Smart TV streaming overtakes linear viewership

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Ads Europe said that streaming on the brand’s smartTVs now account for more watching than linear TV in the UK. Streaming got to 59% for the first time, and was …

Tags:Streaming Video| TV Viewing

We’ll Be Watching You, Redux

by Pete Putman

Back in June, a press release crossed my desk from a company called Xcinex (pronounced “scene-ex”). The release touted Venue, a new movie and streaming service with a twist: It counts the number of …

Tags:Cinema| HDMI| Pay TV| Security| TV Viewing

Voice is Great for TV Control…. Sometimes….

by Bob Raikes

I enjoyed Pete’s article about the developments in remote controls a couple of weeks ago. (Losing the TV Remote Control (Intentionally)). His conclusion was that we might want to replace remote controls with voice …

Tags:Remote Controls| STBs| TV Viewing| Voice Input

“Stop Watching So Much Television. You’ll Ruin Your Eyes!”

by Pete Putman

Those of us old enough to remember when a 19-inch black-and-white television was a “big screen” know this mantra by heart. Back then, in the US, there were three TV networks plus a few …

Tags:Cable| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA