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Vizio SmartCast Now has 15M Users

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At a Needham conference, Vizio said that it now has 15 million active SmartCast users up from 12 million in March 2021. The CFO, Adam Townsend, said that more than 85% …

Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| SVOD| USA| Vizio

Links Week Starting 17th January 2022

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. Here’s a nice VFX show reel if …

Tags:Cinema| Colour Grading| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Google| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Netflix| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Pricing| Retail| USA

Atlanta DTH launches compact ATSC 3.0 digital TV receiver

by Bob Raikes

What They Say RapidTVNews reported that Atlanata DTH has a new dongle that can support ATSC 3.0. The unit is based on the established DGI 1011 SD/HD USB plug-in DTV tuner, the DGI-NexGen-Solo is …

Tags:ATSC| Streaming Dongles| USA

NPD Forecasts the US Tech Scene

by Bob Raikes

NPD held a virtual event around CES to look at a ‘big topic’ and from a high level – both in B2C and the B2B businesses. The session was introduced by Stephen Baker, a …

Tags:Chromebooks| Forecasts| Market Data| Notebooks| NPD| The Metaverse| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Virtual Reality

Researchers Make a flexible OLED with a 3D printer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made OLED displays using a 3D printer. The research is published in Science Advances. The team combined two different modes of printing …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| USA

Colorado Wildfires

by Bob Raikes

Over the holiday, there were devastating fires in Colorado in the US. Very sadly, the high (>100 mph (160 km/h)) winds caused wildfires to devastate residential areas. One of the areas affected was the …

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Cord Cutting in 2021. Antennas Selling Well

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol newsletter posted an article that looked at developments in streaming this year and categorised 2021 as the ‘post-cable’ year. One of the interesting snippets was that the article said that …

Tags:Antennas| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing| USA

TCL Google TVs Pulled from Shelves in the US Due to Software Issues

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Best Buy in the US has withdrawn TCL TVs based on Google TV (TCL Introduces Award-Winning 5-Series and 6-Series TV Lines with Google TV) from its stores and TCL confirmed to …

Tags:Best Buy| Google| Operating Systems| Roku| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Hisense Debuts its First 8K Roku TV, the 75-inch U800GR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hisense has a new Roku-based 75″ 8K TV, the U800GR, that will be promoted at CES, but has already started shipping from Best Buy in the US and Amazon at $2,700. …

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Samsung debuted a new AR experience called Dreamground.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung US said that it has a new AR live experience that is accessible at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles and the company’s flagship experiential store, Samsung 837, in New York …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Samsung| USA

Vizio Adds On-Demand Content to AVOD Service

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio put out a press release to highlight that it has added a ‘massive’ library of free on demand content to its streaming SmartCast service. This adds to the existing streaming …

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