Samsung Unveils 1st Out Of Box 110″ 4K MicroLED TV
Samsung Electronics introduced Wednesday night a new 110-inch 4K Ultra HD MicroLED flat-panel TV that should make it an easier proposition to sell large-format MicroLED displays as home theater applications. Samsung said the latest development allows for selling a MicroLED TV out of one box…
Free ABC News App Comes To Samsung TVs, Galaxy Devices
Samsung has added the ABC News App to its library of free ad-supported over-the-top news programming available through the Samsung TV Plus section available on Samsung Tizen-based smart TVs since 2016. Samsung said the ABC News App will enable cord-cutting Samsung smart TV owners to…
Consumer Studies Point To A Streamy Holiday Season
With the holidays fast approaching and Amazon Prime Day just ahead, Roku this week released findings from its 2020 Holiday Consumer Shopping study shedding a little light on the zeitgeist of U.S. consumers preparing for the biggest shopping period of the year during this unprecedented…
B&O Now Offers TV Floor Stand To Complement Its “Stage” Soundbar
Danish design-centric AV systems manufacturer Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is now selling through its retail channels a Beosound Stage TV Floor Stand to support its advanced soundbar in combination with some third-party televisions. The Beosound Stage floor stand recently appeared on the B&O USA web…
Hisense 100L5F 4K Ultra Short Throw Laser Projector Hits Stores
Hisense has released its new 100L5F 4K short-throw front projector with a laser-based lamp source and built-in Android TV OS. The single-chip DLP-based model that won HD Guru’s Best of CES 2020 award for best new projector is positioned as “an affordable solution” for home…
Roku: Return Of Live Sports Unlikely To Help Pay-TV Much
Roku, a leading supplier of streaming video devices and services, released Tuesday the findings of a cord cutting survey it commissioned of U.S. consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic showing traditional pay-TV services are unlikely to see many cord cutters returning as live sporting events resume….
New VVC/H.266 Codec Unveiled To Speed HD, 4K, 8K Transmission
German AV codec experts the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute formally announced this week the development of a new AV compression codec optimized for 4K, 8K and other video resolution data formats, called Versatile Video Coding (VVC)/H.266, to serve as a possible successor to HEVC/H.265. In…
Parks Study: COVID-19 Good For Smart TV Viewership
More than 6 million U.S. broadband households cut the cord on traditional pay-TV service between the first quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of Q1 2020, a study disclosed by Parks Associates revealed this week. The report said those who gave up their traditional…
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