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Comcast and Charter Combine to Battle Streamers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A joint venture between Comcast and Charter is intended to help the two US cable companies to better compete with dedicated streamers such as Roku, Google TV and Amazon’s Fire TV. …

Tags:Cable| OTT Video| Smart TV| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| SVOD| USA

Apple has officially launched its Self Service Repair program

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple put out a press release saying that its Self Service Repair system is now available in the US and will expand into Europe and then beyond later this year. There’s …

Tags:Apple| Repair| Right to Repair| Smartphones| USA

Barco Updates on Trading for 1Q22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Barco reported its results for Q1 and saw orders up 8% to €247 million and an order book up 51% on this time last year. Sales revenue was up 20% on …

Tags:Barco| Cinema| Financial Data| Laser Projectors| USA

TFT Central Looks at ViewSonic XG2432 – Blurbusters Certified

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The TFT Central website had a look at a 240Hz 23.8″ FullHD ‘Fast IPS’ monitor, the XG2432 from ViewSonic which is reported to be the World’s first ‘Blur Busters Approved 2.0’ …

Tags:Game Playing| Testing| USA| ViewSonic

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Consumer 8K TV Buying Intentions are Up

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say We reported on some market research among US consumers by Hub Entertainment Research a couple of weeks ago. (Research: 76% US homes have smart TV) The 8K Association followed up the …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Market Data| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| USA

Pearl TV, MediaTek Introduce ‘FastTrack to NEXTGEN TV’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chip maker Mediatek said that it has worked with Pearl TV, which has been developing the ATSC 3.0 Nextgen technology, to include technology to support the specification in the Mediatek Reference …

Tags:ATSC| Broadcast| Semiconductor Market| SOCs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| USA

Nextgen TV Generating Interest – but is it Too Late?

by Bob Raikes

Research conducted by Magid, for Dolby Labs and the Pearl TV group found that a marketing campaign around ATSC 3.0 Nextgen TV had generated a lot of interest among consumers. The research found: Consumer …

Tags:ATSC| Broadcast| USA

Wavy OLED Video Wall Greets Visitors at AVI-SPL’s New Dallas Digs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net for pointing us to a US company lobby that uses nine curved and tiled 55″ portrait-oriented OLEDs from LG. The team from AVI-SPL (which is based in the …

Tags:Curved Displays| Digital Signage| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| USA

Research: NEXTGEN TV generating interest

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Research conducted by Magid, for Dolby Labs and the Pearl TV group found that a marketing campaign around ATSC 3.0 Nextgen TV had generated a lot of interes. The research found …

Tags:ATSC| Market Data| USA

US Entry Level Share Declining in CE

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in the NYT, widely syndicated, looked at the trends for higher pricing in consumer electronics (and automotive). The author spoke to Stephen Baker of NPD and he pointed out …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Pricing| USA

Links Week Ending 1st April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. I haven’t been watching audio closely, …

Tags:Apple| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HP Inc| Interactive Displays| ISE 2022| KVMs| Mergers & Acquisitions| MMD (AOC Philips)| Repair| Russia| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)| Ukraine| USA