Roku, Best Buy TV Sales Exclusive To Bring More Than Just Hardware Sales Benefits
Along with Roku’s announcement Thursday of its new exclusive relationship with Best Buy to sell its first Roku branded Roku TVs was the revelation that the partnership will include cross data sharing and advertising benefits between the streaming service and the big box retailer. The…
Promo Brings Free Month Of Vidgo TV Service To Sony Smart TV Owners
Sony and Internet-delivered sports-centric live TV streaming service Vidgo introduced a new deal Wednesday to help Sony smart TV owners get to know and subscribe to the streamer’s premium live and on-demand streaming service. Under the deal, Vidgo is offering Sony smart TV users across…
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…
Xbox Cloud Gaming App Coming To Tizen TVs In Samsung Gaming Hub On June 30th
Microsoft presented further evidence Thursday that the new video gaming revolution will not be console-ized. The company revealed today that its Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming platform is coming to an app on the Samsung Gaming Hub in the CE manufacturer’s 2022 smart TVs, beginning…
Study: 87% Of U.S. Households Now Have At Least One Streaming Device
Some 87% of U.S. TV households have at least one internet-connected TV device, up from 80% in 2020, according to new study from the Leichtman Research Group (LRG). The findings from the LRG’s 19th Annual Connected TV 2022 study (based on a survey of 1,902…
Roku Adds CNN Plus To News Service’s App Available For Download Soon
Roku is adding the new CNN Plus premium subscription video on demand service to a new expanded CNN app, the news service announced in a blog Monday. Roku TV and Roku media streaming adapter users will soon be able to get the new service by…
New NCAA March Madness App Available To Owners Of LG WebOS Smart TVs
In time for March Madness, LG Electronics is launching a new NCAA March Madness app this is available to many of its webOS-based TVs to access action from this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, which begins next week. Managed by Turner Sports in…
Six More Brands Join The `Roku TV Ready’ Certification Program
Roku announced it has added six new consumer electronics brand partners to the Roku TV Ready Certification program. New partners that signed on over the course of the last year include Element, JVC, Pheanoo, and Philips, with Polk Audio and Westinghouse, which will be added…
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