Control4 Unveils Smart Home OS 3 Interoperability
Control4, developers of an advanced multi-product home control network, said Thursday that it now offers an improved operating system for Control4 installations called Smart Home OS 3 that will help smart devices of many brands and systems work together more easily and reliably through a…
Alexa Coming To LG ThinQ AI TVs Via Firmware Update
LG Electronics (LG) is preparing to soon roll out support for Amazon Alexa artificial intelligence (AI) voice control to 2019 ThinQ AI televisions sold in 14 countries, including the United States, the company announced Wednesday night. The new firmware update that will add the feature…
Samsung 2019 TVs Get New `Apple TV’ App Through Firmware Update
Samsung said Monday that it has started to release a firmware update to 2019 Samsung Smart TVs and select 2018 TV models in 176 countries including the United States bringing a new Apple TV app with AirPlay 2 support. Once the firmware is downloaded and…
Roku Claims Top Smart TV OS Market Share In Q1 2019
Roku released the results of its first quarter 2019 financials this week, indicating that its Roku TV smart TV OS had taken the top market share position among operating systems in TVs sold in the United States. The Roku TV platform is carried by a…
Report: Huawei Looking To Add 5G-8K TV By Year’s End
Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei Technologies is reportedly planning to possibly introduce a 5G/8K television by the end of next year. The report didn’t say exactly in which markets it would launch, how large the set would be or what the full feature set would…
DEG: Q1 Growth Continued In Content Spending, 4K Products
Consumers continued to up their spending on movie and television content during the first quarter of 2019, with dollar totals reaching $6 billion, up 6.4% from the $5.7 billion tallied over the first three months of 2018, according to data released by the Digital Entertainment…
Review: Samsung 8K Q900R Looks Great From All Angles
Just a few months after the release of the first consumer 8K television in the United States, Samsung has bettered itself with the release of the Q900R series of 8K televisions which improve the package by offering an amazingly wide viewing angle for a full-array…
Amazon, Google End Streaming App War
From the Hell freezes over department: Users of Fire TV adapters and Fire TV televisions will finally be getting access to the YouTube and YouTube Kids streaming apps without having to go to any additional devices or streaming platforms. And turnaround is fair play: users…
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