Parks: Top 3 OTT Services Secure In U.S. Subscription Ranks
Although the ranking order of the top 10 over-the-top streaming services has been re-arranged somewhat following the emergence of new services including Disney+, Apple TV+, Peacock and HBO Max, the top three services — Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu — don’t appear to be going…
Sony Unveils Compact FX6 4K/HDR Cinema Camera
Advanced and professional cinematographers have a new 4K compact cinema camera option available from Sony in the FX6 featuring a 10.2 megapixel full-frame back-illuminated CMOS Exmor R sensor capable of capturing 15+ stops of dynamic range. In tandem with the FX6 cinema camera Sony also…
Pearl To Launch Holiday NextGen TV Awareness Campaign
Get ready to start hearing a lot more about the new NextGen TV system in the coming weeks. That’s because broadcast television group Pearl TV and its Phoenix Model Market Partners are starting a multi-million dollar on-air and online awareness campaign scheduled to run over…
LG Display Garners OLED Eco-Product Certification
LG Display, the developer of video display panels for television sets and other devices, said Thursday that televisions based on its organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology recently earned Eco-Product Certification from third-party testing-firm SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance). The evaluation found OLED displays possessed…
Report: AT&T Trying To Sell Legacy Pay-TV Services
The future status of the DirecTV satellite TV and U-verse telco-TV services could be changing again following reports that AT&T is talking to private equity firms to sell portions of certain legacy pay-TV assets. A report by CNBC citing sources familiar with negotiations Tuesday said…
Netflix Raises Prices On Step-up Service Plans In The U.S.
Netflix revealed Thursday that it will be raising the price for the premium four-stream 4K/HDR and standard two-stream Full HD service plans for U.S. customers shortly. Under the new pricing plan, Netflix customers in the U.S. will be required to pay $2 more per month…
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…
Ultra HD Forum Updates HDR, Next Gen Audio Guidelines
The television industry’s Ultra HD Forum released this week Version 2.4 of its guidelines offering updated recommendations and specifications for over-the-top (OTT) distribution of Ultra HD content. At the same time, The Forum said it has upgraded its UHD service tracker giving more attention online…
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