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NBC to Bring HDR, UltraHD and Atmos to Beijing 2022 Olympics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say NBC will cover the Winter Olympics in UltraHD and with HDR for US viewers. NBC Sports will provide live coverage of the NBC broadcast network’s Olympics primetime and Prime Plus shows …

Counterpoint Releases Smartphone Data on World, China and US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published some interesting data on the smartphone market in the US and China as well as looking at the overall development of the market over the last five years. …

Panasonic Projects Immersive Worlds in Las Vegas

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We featured the Area15 entertainment location in Las Vegas (Defining Times for Immersive Destinations) last year. Invidis has now reported on a deal with the location for Panasonic to supply projectors …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Panasonic| USA

Tizen Smart TVs claim 27% of US broadband homes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Parks Associates said that in Q3 2021, 27% of US broadband subscribers reported the Samsung Tizen Smart TV is their primary device for consuming video content. Eric Sorensen, Senior Contributing Analyst, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …