CTA: U.S. Ultra HD Blu-ray Player Shipments Grew 1% To 963K Units
Shipments of dedicated Ultra HD Blu-ray players in the United States grew 1% in 2021 to 963,000 units over the 12 month period, according the CTA’s latest 2022 Sales & Forecasts Data. The results showed a slight return to growth for the category, following 2020’s…
Indiana Jones 4-Movie Collection Comes To UHD Blu-ray June 8th
Paramount Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm announced this week plans to release on June 8th a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray 4-Movie Collection of the Indiana Jones series. The set will also include digital copies of all four films: 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984’s Indiana…
New TV? Here’s A Quick Set-Up Guide To Get You Started
So, you hope to get a new HD, 4K UHD or even 8K UHD TV for Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa or what have you, and you can’t wait to set it up to get the best picture possible in the least amount of time. The following…
Ups And Downs In U.S. TV Sales Start To Stabilize As Q2 Progresses
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to complicate the business of television selling, we thought it was high time to take the industry’s temperature again. According to U.S. market research firm The NPD Group, the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. television sales has taken some hard…
Sony Pictures To Release Columbia Classics 4K UHD Blu-ray Set
Those disappointed with down-rezed picture quality coming from streaming video services faced with the crush of viewership during COVID-19 crisis, might appreciate the June launch of an expansive collection of films in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray pulled by Sony Pictures from its Columbia Classics library….
CTA Forecasts Show Ultra HD Blu-ray Players In Decline
More signs of the decline of the physical disc player market surfaced with the recent release of the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA’s) 2020 January Sales & Forecasts Report, which now shows that shipments of Ultra HD Blu-ray players to the United States declined in both…
4K Disc Players Conspicuous By Their Absence From CES
Whither the Ultra HD Blu-ray player category in 2020? CES gave us disturbingly little in the way of new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray hardware or software announcements for the year ahead. The show traditionally has been the launching pad for the new year’s player models,…
Has Black Friday Shifted To An E-tail Holiday For Tech?
According to early anecdotal accounts, the 2019 Black Friday promotional weekend, which ended with Cyber Monday, generated a good amount of foot traffic at brick-&-mortar electronics and discount chains across the country, but the over-arching trend found much of the frenetic in person shopping activity…
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