CES 2023 Saw Smart TV OS Wars Intensify Among Smart Media Adapter Brands
The smart TV platform wars heated up at CES 2023 with announcements of new smart TV brands and platform approaches, impinging further on the share of smart TV sticks and adapters — so-called streaming media devices (SMD), market analyst S&P Global observed in a blog…
LG Adds New Original Cooking Shows From Majordomo TV To LG Channels FAST Service
LG Electronics announced Tuesday a deal with Majordomo Media on a multi-year partnership to produce original programming exclusive to LG’s free ad-supported streaming (FAST) service, LG Channels. LG Channels is a free streaming channels TV service available exclusively on LG’s premium webOS smart TV lineup….
Nordic Viaplay Content Comes To The Roku Channel
Roku this week had good news for U.S. fans of Nordic-originated television content through a deal to bring more than 1,500 hours of premium movies and programs from the region’s streaming content distributor Viaplay as a premium channel service partner available in the U.S. through…
Utomik Cloud Gaming App Now Available On 2021, 2022 LG WebOS TVs
As announced back in September, the cloud-based gaming app for the Utomik service is now available on LG 2022 and 2021 webOS LCD and OLED smart TVs. The Utomik Cloud app became available recently through the LG App store on applicable LG smart TVs in…
LG Rolls Out ‘WebOS Hub’ To Third-Party Smart TV Licensees
LG Thursday introduced the latest spin on its smart TV platform initiative for third party TV makers, called “webOS Hub.” The company announced Thursday that it has started rolling out webOS Hub, which is billed as an upgraded version of its webOS solution that brings…
CTA: U.S. 8K TV Shipments To Climb 70% In 2022
Along with OLED-panel-based models, 8K UHD TVs represent one of the few segments of the television set market showing growth in 2022. According to the newly released Consumer Technologies Association (CTA) Summer 2022 Sales & Forecasts Update Report, U.S. shipments of television sets with 8K…
50″ Hisense 4K U6 Series Fire TV On Sale Now At $399.99
Hisense’s first 50-inch 4K U6 ULED TV based on Amazon’s Fire TV OS is on sale now for $399.99 That’s a saving of $130 off of the initial selling price for the 2022 model Hisense 50U6HF full-array LED-backlit LCD smart TV with local dimming features,…
Hub Research: 74% Of U.S. Homes Now Have A Smart TV
Some 62% of U.S. TV homes use their smart TV to stream video, up from 47% two years ago, according to a recent survey of 2,526 U.S. consumers from Hub Entertainment Research. In its report on “The Evolution of the TV Set 2022,” Hub Entertainment…
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