At a time when many other manufacturers are cutting back, LG Electronics is expanding its TV business with an eye on further diversifying its production footprint and stepping up capacity. The key component of this strategy will be LG’s Cibitung facility in Indonesia which will become the company’s new regional hub, taking over two of […]
The Astro Ultra Box is now available to customers of Malaysia’s Astro IPTV who are currently on Maxis Home Fibre network with speeds from 30Mbps. The Ultra experience includes 4K, Cloud Recording and a fresh new user interface that is seamless across device screens, improved content recommendations based on viewing history, play from start functions […]
Pay-TV platform COSMOTE TV, part of the OTE Group, has gone live with video technology specialist Synamedia’s Media Streamer CDN platform for its new streaming service. Synamedia’s virtualised Media Streamer platform is deployed on a distributed private cloud architecture, providing high-performance edge caching and streaming through a network of servers deployed locally across cities throughout […]
Global sports channel beIN Sports is set to welcome back German football live starting on May 16th with a host of Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 games for viewers to watch exclusively across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). With most live sport still on pause across the world as a result of the Covid-19 […]
Suggesting that the move marks the company’s transformation from a trusted DVR provider to a streaming market innovator, providing one destination for all your home entertainment, TiVo has confirmed the retail availability of TiVo Stream 4K, providing customers with what it says is the market’s first unifying streamer, suggesting it is the ultimate streaming device […]
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new SVoD service, is to be available on Apple devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD, when it launches in the US on July 15th, 2020. At that time, Peacock will offer a free tier featuring more than 7,500 hours of movies, shows, and timely live and […]
NHK has unveiled ‘Aktina Vision’ (Aktina, from the Greek ‘ray of light’), a 3D system that is capable of natural 3D without special glasses. This ‘holy grail’ 3D system for broadcasters reproduces light rays and where the object is captured from different viewpoints in order to obtain multi-viewpoint images, which are used to reproduce the […]
In what would have been the week of Ultra HD Forum’s fifth NAB, the non-profit UHD advocate has shared some encouraging findings from its all-new UHD Service Tracker. The Forum is also releasing V2.3 of its Guidelines, which have become an essential resource for UHD purveyors and observers alike. Now tracking 150 commercial consumer-facing Ultra […]
South Korean electronics giant Samsung is switching its TV production to OLED and QD-based panels, and will cease producing LCD screens by the end of this year. Samsung’s Display division is currently upgrading its production lines as it had announced last October, but the previous comments from Samsung made no mention of dropping LCD output. […]
Omdia has slashed its 2020 global television shipment outlook by nearly 10 percentage points, with the market now expected to undergo a sharp downturn due to coronavirus mitigation measures initiated by governments worldwide. Global television shipments will fall by 8.7 per cent in 2020, declining to 203.5 million units, down from 222.9 million in 2019, […]