CTA Declares CES 2022 On As A Physical And Virtual Trade Show
Damn Covid-19, it’s full speed ahead for CES 2022. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced Wednesday that CES 2022 is back on as a physical event and with virtual options, for those who would rather not risk exposure to the deadly pandemic that forced the…
Strategy Analytics: Global CE Industry Grew In 2020
Despite the impact of COVID-19 around the world last year, sales of consumer electronics products generated factory dollar revenue of $358.5 billion, up 7% from 2019, according to data released by market research firm Strategy Analytics. According to the firm’s Global Consumer Electronics Market Forecasts…
Streaming Pirates May Suffer An Additional COVID-19 Symptom
The new COVID-19 stimulus bill presented in Congress this week has an added lump of Christmas coal awaiting anyone engaged in commercially pirating copyrighted video via for-profit streaming services. Congress slapped an anti-piracy streaming proposal onto the much-needed and highly debated new COVID-19 stimulus measure…
Large On-line Slate Planned For Virtual CES 2021 Trade Show
In case you a member of the consumer technology industry and have an interest in virtually attending this year’s pandemic restricted CES 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) wants you to know you have limited amount of time to register before things get more complicated….
Pandemic Led 8% Of U.S. Homes To Cancel Video Services
Some 8% of U.S. broadband households cancelled at least one paid video service through May of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 4% of that cancelled a traditional pay-TV service due primarily to the cancellation of sports programming, research released this week by…
Omdia: 4K UHD TV Shipments Defied Q3-2020 Forecasts
Shipments of television sets continued to defy expectations for the COVID-19 pandemic in the third quarter of 2020, with overall global unit volume up 15% from the same period a year ago to 62.9 million, according to recently released Global TV market data. A recently…
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…
Samsung Guidance Shows Big Q3 Sales, Profit Gains
The COVID-19 pandemic might be hurting some businesses, but it seems to have significantly helped Samsung Electronics, according to the company’s Q3-2020 earnings guidance statement Thursday. The South Korean consumer electronics giant reported a Q3-2020 operating profit of 12.3 trillion won (approximately $10.6 billion) and…
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