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Sky addresses Sky Glass flickering screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say broadbandtvnews.com reports that a number of Sky Glass customers (When is a TV not a TV?) have complained about issues with the new TVs about ‘distracting flicker’. There are also complaints …

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

Sky Glass Update – It Does Have an Emergency Tuner

by Bob Raikes

What They Say It took three days after I contacted them for Sky’s media department to get back to me with an answer to my question, “Can you confirm whether the Sky Glass TV …

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

When is a TV not a TV?

by Bob Raikes

Yesterday, Comcast’s UK subsidiary, Sky UK, released its new Glass TV. But is it a TV? One TV-focused website said ‘These are fairly conventional TVs’. I beg to disagree. Since the start of the …

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

Right To Repair Rules Will Extend Lifespan Of Products, UK Government Says

by Bob Raikes

What They Say New ‘right to repair’ rules have been brought in in the UK that include the obligation to supply spare parts for TVs. The new rules apply to products bought from Thursday, …

Tags:Right to Repair| UK (United Kingdom)| warranty

Sky Q to offer live sport in HDR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UK’s dominant pay TV firm, Sky, has said that it will supply over 200 hours of Olympic coverage in UltraHD and with HDR on its dedicated 4K channel. It will …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Satellite| UK (United Kingdom)| UltraHD

Midwich set to ‘outperform financial expectations’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Midwich Group, the dominant AV distributor in the UK and increasingly an operator at European level, has reported sales up 29% in the first half of 2021 on an annual basis. …

Tags:Distribution| Financial Data| UK (United Kingdom)

“Right to repair” Rules Introduced in the UK

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Despite Brexit, the UK is introducing regulations to match EU requirements that mandate that spare parts should be available to professional repairers for up to ten years. It currently applies to …

Tags:Right to Repair| UK (United Kingdom)| warranty

CineWorld To Add 100 ScreenX Theatres

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Associated Press (AP) said that the CineWorld cinema chain in the UK plans to add 100 new ScreenX multi-screen installations to its locations. That will boost the number of ScreenX installations …

Tags:Cinema| UK (United Kingdom)

Links Week Commencing 17th May 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 second part of this week. Quest 2 will soon support “hardware bicubic …

ISE Amsterdam and Germany Cancelled

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ISE has decided to cancel the Munich and Amsterdam events that it was planning after the full Barcelona event was modified to four regional events. The events in Barcelona and London …

Tags:Germany| ISE 2021| Spain| UK (United Kingdom)

Research: Over 8m TV sets sold in UK in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television interviewed Futuresource Consulting about the UK TV set market which it calculates at 8 million sets in 2020. The firm interviewed buyers in June 2020 and found that the …

Tags:Market Data| TV Set Market| UK (United Kingdom)

Apple removes claim that its Pro Display XDR goes ‘far beyond HDR’ in the UK

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DPReview (my favourite photography technology site) reports that Apple in the UK has been forced by the ASA (advertising authority) to withdraw a claim that the display goes ‘Far Beyond HDR’ …