Disney+ Garners 73M Paid Subscribers In First Year
What do the new Disney+ service and presumptive President-Elect Joseph Biden have in common? They each reported more than 73 million supporters and growing in November. As part of its fiscal fourth quarter earnings report Thursday, Disney revealed that in just over a year since…
Homlish: Skyworth Looks To ‘Evolve’ In The U.S. Market
After some foundation laying amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 China-based Skyworth is preparing for a major North American television push in 2021. But don’t expect any splashy too-good-to-be-true promotional pricing, empty promises or products that aren’t fully baked. John Homlish, Skyworth USA senior VP…
Samsung, LG TVs Updated To Relieve COVID-19 Cabin Fever
As the COVID-19 pandemic increases reliance on digital streaming entertainment to help weather the viral storm, two of the world’s largest television manufacturers announced this week additional new capabilities now available to owners of some of their smart TV sets. On Wednesday, Samsung revealed that…
COVID-19 Poses Conundrum For Shut-Ins In Need Of A New TV
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to reverberate across the consumer electronics industry and into consumer homes as leading market research trackers continue to reduce their TV set sales predictions for 2020. Like the stock market, the uncertain nature of the television industry can…
Will COVID-19 Delay New Console Launches, TV Sports Seasons?
Microsoft and Sony are planning to launch key new video game consoles during the 2020 Holiday season, but whether or not those products will arrive in time could be dictated by any further disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a CE market impact report…
2020 TV Rollouts Underway Despite COVID-19 Interruptions
You may be hiding at home, but television vendors and analysts carefully monitoring the COVID-19 Coronavirus situation around the world said that so far plans for the transition to 2020 model lines remain more or less on target. Since the virus breakout, some in the…
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