Konka Unveils 2021 TVs With WebOS, Smart Home Devices
In advance of next week’s virtual CES 2021, China-based TV brand Konka, which made its North American debut last fall, announced a range of products for 2021 including an assortment of smart TVs based on a choice of Andriod TV or LG’s popular webOS smart…
Facebook Watch TV App Comes To Select LG WebOS Smart TVs
LG Electronics announced Friday that it is launching support for the Facebook Watch TV app on all 2014 and later webOS smart TVs. The feature will be made available in all countries where Facebook Watch is available, the company said. LG said the Facebook Watch…
LG Promo Offers $100 Streaming Credit For Select TV Purchases
LG Electronics USA is now offering a limited-time promotion giving purchasers of select LG 4K TVs a $100 credit toward popular streaming content and gaming sites. The promotion, which is running now through Jan. 17, 2020, will reward customers who purchase an LG OLED BX…
Juniper: 13.4B Smart Home Devices To Be In Active Use In 5 Years
In line with recent reports of surging growth of integrated Smart TVs around the world, nearly 13.5 billion smart home devices are forecast to be in active use by 2025, up from an estimated 7.4 billion at the end of 2020, according to new data…
LG Smart TVs Get Amazon Music App Plus Special Features, Offers
LG OLED, NanoCell and other LG smart TVs in the United States dating back to 2016 are being updated this month with an integrated Amazon Music App. The Amazon Music App brings Prime members access to more than 2 million pre-selected songs and over 1,000…
Parks Study: COVID-19 Good For Smart TV Viewership
More than 6 million U.S. broadband households cut the cord on traditional pay-TV service between the first quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of Q1 2020, a study disclosed by Parks Associates revealed this week. The report said those who gave up their traditional…
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…
Major New Smart Home Platform Standard Planned
Anyone interested in purchasing a new TV in part to use as a smart home hub might be interested to learn that Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are teaming up in a historically unlikely way to develop a new open standard assuring interoperability…
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