Consumer Electronics
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TiVo Inks Software Deal with Anime Provider Funimation
TiVo March 14 announced it is licensing software to Funimation, the anime content provider and a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television. The software includes TiVo branded content search and recommendation technology. The software will enable Funimation to test, manage and fine-tune search and recommendation performance in real-time to help improve the user experience and generate … Continue reading “TiVo Inks Software Deal with Anime Provider Funimation”
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Rakuten TV Gets Direct-Access on Samsung, LG, Philips and Hisense TV Remotes
Rakuten TV March 14 announced partnerships with Samsung Electronics, LG, Philips and Hisense to introduce a remote control button on their smart TV units in Europe and Pan America directly linking to the streaming video service. The move comes about eight years after Netflix began incorporating its logo/button on TV remote controls in the United … Continue reading “Rakuten TV Gets Direct-Access on Samsung, LG, Philips and Hisense TV Remotes”
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TiVo Inks Software Deal with Anime Provider Funimation
TiVo March 14 announced it is licensing software to Funimation, the anime content provider and a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television. The software includes TiVo branded content search and recommendation technology. The software will enable Funimation to test, manage and fine-tune search and recommendation performance in real-time to help improve the user experience and generate … Continue reading “TiVo Inks Software Deal with Anime Provider Funimation”
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Rakuten TV Gets Direct-Access on Samsung, LG, Philips and Hisense TV Remotes
Rakuten TV March 14 announced partnerships with Samsung Electronics, LG, Philips and Hisense to introduce a remote control button on their smart TV units in Europe and Pan America directly linking to the streaming video service. The move comes about eight years after Netflix began incorporating its logo/button on TV remote controls in the United … Continue reading “Rakuten TV Gets Direct-Access on Samsung, LG, Philips and Hisense TV Remotes”
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IHS: World Cup Soccer Spiked Global TV Sales in 2018
Last summer’s FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament in Russia helped increase global TV sales 2.9% to 221 million units, according to new data from IHS Markit Research. In the fourth quarter of 2018 more than half of all shipments were ultra-high-definition (UHD) TVs with increasingly larger screen sizes. “Average new TV screen sizes are still … Continue reading “IHS: World Cup Soccer Spiked Global TV Sales in 2018”
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TiVo Balloons Fiscal Loss, Eyes Splitting Business
DVR pioneer TiVo reported a fourth-quarter (ended Dec. 31, 2018) loss of $288 million, compared with income of $18 million during the previous-year period. Revenue fell 22% to $168.5 million, from $214.2 million a year earlier. For the fiscal year, revenue dropped 16% to $695.8 million, from $826.4 million in 2017. TiVo attributed much of … Continue reading “TiVo Balloons Fiscal Loss, Eyes Splitting Business”
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Samsung Halting Blu-ray Disc Player Production
Samsung is stopping production of 1080p and 4K Blu-ray Disc players for the United States market — leaving Sony, Panasonic and LG as the last CE manufacturers supporting the next-generation packaged media format. The South Korean company had been working on a follow-up to the UBD-M9500 4K BD player, which has now been scrapped. Samsung … Continue reading “Samsung Halting Blu-ray Disc Player Production”
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Return of Rabbit Ears? Over-the-Air Antennae Makes Comeback
When the federal government in 2009 mandated broadcast television switch from analog transmission to digital, conventional wisdom assumed the end of over-the-air TV signals. New data from Nielsen would argue otherwise. Nearly a decade after the switch, there are 16 million households employing a digital antennae. That’s up 50% from 5 million homes in 2010. … Continue reading “Return of Rabbit Ears? Over-the-Air Antennae Makes Comeback”
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Comcast Disputes Media Report It Favors Roku Over Proprietary Streaming App
Comcast Feb. 4 issued a statement disputing an online media report that it plans to scrap development of a proprietary streaming app in favor of using Roku technology. A report in BestAppleTV.com claimed Comcast Cable would bypass Apple TV as well as the tvOS app platform in development in favor of a Roku-designed smart box – … Continue reading “Comcast Disputes Media Report It Favors Roku Over Proprietary Streaming App”
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Cinedigm Bows Asian OTT Service ‘Hallypop’ on Samsung Smart TVs
Cinedigm Jan. 31 expanded its OTT video partnership with Samsung, adding Asian culture platform Hallypop and fact-focused Docurama on Samsung’s TV Plus video service. The services join CONtv and Dove Channel, which both launched on the TV Plus platform in November 2018. TV Plus is Samsung’s video service, which provides access to a variety of … Continue reading “Cinedigm Bows Asian OTT Service ‘Hallypop’ on Samsung Smart TVs”
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Report: Entertainment Voice Control Appeals to Half of U.S. Broadband Households
Close to half (43%) of U.S. broadband households that own or plan to purchase a smart TV or streaming media player consider voice control to be an important feature for their next purchase, according to new research from Parks Associates. Meanwhile, more than half (55%) of U.S. broadband households find voice control of connected entertainment … Continue reading “Report: Entertainment Voice Control Appeals to Half of U.S. Broadband Households”
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UHD Alliance, Blu-ray Disc Association Tout 4K UHD at CES
The UHD Alliance and the Blu-ray Disc Association were at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas to tout the success of the 4K Ultra HD format and new promotional efforts. The UHD Alliance currently has 43 members — comprised of electronics manufacturers, film and television studios, content distributors, and technology companies — with such companies … Continue reading “UHD Alliance, Blu-ray Disc Association Tout 4K UHD at CES”
