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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

Criticism of display refrigerated cabinet doors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis published an interesting article on displays used in refrigerator doors, especially by Cooler Screens which had raised $100 million to develop the category and had a contract to install doors …

Tags:Retail| USA

Everyone in the M&E Industry Wants the Same Thing … Viewers

by Andy Marken

You may not realize it, but the entertainment food chain has changed dramatically over the past few years. In fact, according to MPA’s (Motion Picture Association’s) head, Charles Rinkin, it’s on the cusp of …

Tags:Broadcast| Content Creation| Movies & Content| Streaming Video| SVOD| USA

For Streaming Media, Everything Old Is New Again

by Pete Putman

A story published March 9 at Forbes illustrates how the video streaming landscape continues to shift dramatically. What started out largely as a science experiment 18 years ago with YouTube has now become the …

Tags:Broadcast| Disney| Netflix| Streaming Video| USA

Roku Planning to Make its Own TVs?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Insider reports that Roku is exploring the feasibility of making its own brand of smartTVs and apparently ran a focus group. Someone told the blog: “They showed different models, feature …

Tags:Roku| Smart TV| USA

Samba TV’s Q4’21 State of Viewership Report is Here!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samba TV released three reports on the ‘State of Viewership’ in TV in the US, the UK and Germany and in Australia. The reports look at the reach and impressions of …

Tags:Europe| Market Data| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

U.S. pay TV penetration to fall below 50% in 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DigitalTVResearch forecast that traditional pay TV penetration in the US will slip below 50% of TV households in 2026 – down from 91% in 2010 and down from 60% in 2021. …

Tags:Pay TV| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

SmartKem, Inc. Begins Trading on the OTCQB in the US

by Artem Alekseenko

SmartKem, Inc. announced that its common stock has commenced trading on the OTCQB Venture Marketplace (“OTCQB”) in the United States under the ticker symbol “SMTK”. The OTCQB is a US trading platform that is …

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