Pandemic Led 8% Of U.S. Homes To Cancel Video Services
Some 8% of U.S. broadband households cancelled at least one paid video service through May of this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 4% of that cancelled a traditional pay-TV service due primarily to the cancellation of sports programming, research released this week by…
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…
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…
Samsung Guidance Shows Big Q3 Sales, Profit Gains
The COVID-19 pandemic might be hurting some businesses, but it seems to have significantly helped Samsung Electronics, according to the company’s Q3-2020 earnings guidance statement Thursday. The South Korean consumer electronics giant reported a Q3-2020 operating profit of 12.3 trillion won (approximately $10.6 billion) and…
Regal Theaters Close 500 Cinemas As Releases Dry Up
The role of home theater technology has taken on disturbingly bigger dimensions with word Monday that the country’s second largest cinema chain — Regal Entertainment Group — is suspending operations, effective Thursday. Regal parent Cineworld Group’s decision will effectively close more than 500 locations, including…
Report: LG VIP Event Planned For Rollable OLED TV
Could LG’s rollable 4K OLED TV finally be on the way to market? An article in Korean technology business web site The Elec, reported last week that LG is planning a VIP event for Oct. 14-19, when it is expected to “launch its OLED rollable…
Pay-TV’s Top 10 Watched More Subscribers Bolt In Q2
After losing 1.52 million more subscribers in the second quarter of 2020, the top 10 U.S. pay-TV service providers now collectively serve 73.14 million television customers covering 60% of U.S. homes, The update comes by way of the informitv Multiscreen Index as reported this week…
NHK’s 8K Flagship Channel Facing Uncertain Future
The future of the world’s first 8K broadcast TV platform that was credited with helping ignite interest in a new generation of high resolution televisions now slowly gaining traction in the market, is faced with a channel cutdown decision, according to reports out of Japan….
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