Hisense Acquires Toshiba TV Assets For $113.6M
Hisense Electric, a wholly owned subsidiary of China-based Hisense Group, revealed Tuesday that it will purchase certain television assets of Japan’s Toshiba Corp., including TV production, brand, R&D and operation service, effective Nov. 14, 2017. Under the deal, Hisense will purchase 95 percent stock…
CTA: It’s Looking Like Another Hi-Tech Black Friday
CTA’s Steve Koenig delivers holiday cheer at CES 2018 Unveiled For 2017, Black Friday has become a moniker more for the price-slashing mania during all of November than for the traditional Friday after Thanksgiving selling bonanza. According to Consumer Technology Association (CTA) market research presented…
IHS: HDR Is `The Biggest Improvement Coming To TV’
Global unit shipments of televisions supporting High Dynamic Range (HDR) are forecast to reach 12.2 million in 2017 and will continue to expand to 47.9 million in 2021, according to television market research conducted in the IHS Markit TV Design and Features Tracker for…
TCL Reaches No. 2-Ranked U.S. TV Brand In September
Giant Chinese television and consumer electronics manufacturer TCL achieved the No. 2 TV unit sales position in the United States for the first time in September, beating out both U.S.-based Vizio and South Korea-based LG, which had been jockeying for the rank over the…
Canon Unveils Flagship PowerShot Camera With APS-C Sensor
Canon introduced Monday the new flagship model in its PowerShot G-series premium compact camera series, featuring a 24.3-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and the company’s new Dual Pixel CMOS auto-focus (AF) technology. The Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III, which will hit retail in November…
Movies Anywhere Launches New Content Locker Service
Walt Disney has brought together five of the six major Hollywood studios to provide a new digital content locker for the ownership and playback of streamed movies accessed through an app called Movies Anywhere. Movies Anywhere, which launched Wednesday night, uses a free app…
Gap Intelligence: 4K UHD Retail Placements On The Rise
If you’re looking for a new television this year, you might have noticed that the selection of models, particularly those with 4K Ultra HD resolution, has significantly expanded at your local consumer electronics retail store. According to a study by market research firm gap…
Zone-TV To Launch AI-Enabled `Dynamic Channels’ Through Cable, Satellite
Santa Monica, Calif.-based zone-TV said Monday that it plans to launch a group of 14 subscription video-on-demand television channels, with content currated by humans and delivered with the help of artifical intelligent (AI) to provide special interest programming that is not readily available elsewhere…
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