LG Releases Official 4K Ultra HD OLED TV Pricing
LG Electronics (LG) officially released unilateral pricing policy (UPP) prices on its 2019 4K Ultra HD OLED TV lines, including new 4K Ultra HD OLED and NanoCell LED-LCD TVs will begin rolling out this week. Only the “picture on wall” W9 series models had prices…
Value Electronics To Give Advanced 4K Projector Demo
Anyone in the New York City area this weekend who is interested in seeing what 12-bit, 4K Ultra HD video with HDR looks like in a home theater, might want to check out a first-of-its-kind demo on Saturday. JVC’s new NX9 native 4K Ultra HD/HDR…
Survey Finds Interest Awaiting Disney+ Service
Get ready to start shelling out for another monthly subscription video service. Disney’s forthcoming new subscription streaming service, Disney+, generated strong interest from surveyed potential customers, providing the price is right, according newly released research conducted by The Diffusion Group. TDG’s eighth annual “Video Behavior…
Does Samsung’s Blu-ray Withdrawl Doom Discs?
Despite the recently announced decision by Samsung to end further introductions of Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray players in the U.S. market, companies still supporting the formats tell HD Guru that physical media, and specifically 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, isn’t dead yet. Conversely, more pessimistic…
USB4 Specification Revealed
A new USB specification update, called USB4, was announced Monday by the USB Promoter Group, bring compatibility with the Thunderbolt 3 specification, backward compatibility with earlier USB specifications and up to 40 Gbps bandwidth. The new specification is said to compliment and build on the…
Alexa Skill Comes To Roku Adapters, Roku TVs
Roku announced Tuesday that Roku media streaming adapters and Roku TVs can now be set up to work with Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speakers, like the Echo, Dot and other Alexa-enabled devices. 4K UHD and HDTVs Amazon’s Camera, Photo & Video Deals Amazon Fire TV 4K…
CFexpress 2.0 Flash Storage Format Announced
A new specification, CFexpress 2.0, that expands the CompactFlash Express spec to include two additional form factors for professional imaging and industrial markets in need of higher-speed digital storage and transfer rates, was announced Thursday by the CompactFlash Association (CFA). The CFA is the organization…
IHS: 2018 NA. LCD TV Shipments Rose 3.7%
Shipments of LED-LCD-based television sets surpassed original forecasts for North America, according to recent end-of-year shipment figures tallied by consumer electronics research firm IHS Markit. IHS said total LCD-based televisions shipped 43.3 million units to North America last year, up 3.7% from 2017 category shipments….
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