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Swiss TV buys 90 4K camcorders

Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) has bought 90 4K video camcorders for its news-gatherers from Panasonic Business. Panasonic initially provided RTS with its AJ-PX 270 Micro P2 units to test along with models from competing brands, to replace their ageing equipment. The field reporters on the RTS editorial team had been using the same camcorders for […]

January 12, 2018By Chris Forrester

LG confirms ATSC 3.0 Korea 4K TVs

LG Electronics, co-developer of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation television broadcast standard, has confirmed that all LG 4K Ultra HD TVs now on the market in South Korea already incorporate ATSC 3.0 tuning circuitry. At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, where the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) officially released the new suite of standards, LG announced […]

January 11, 2018

CTA: Tech industry revenue to reach $351bn in 2018

Excitement about emerging technologies and the resilience of historically leading categories will drive the US consumer technology industry to a record-breaking $351 billion in retail revenues ($266 billion wholesale) in 2018 – 3.9 per cent higher than 2017, according to research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The latest edition of CTA’s semi-annual industry report, […]

January 10, 2018

Sony ‘high-end display units here to stay’

Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s CEO, speaking at CES in Las Vegas, was an able and enthusiastic spokesman for his TV division stressing it was very much here to stay. “We have really shifted our product focus to more high-end [products] with 4K and OLED and from a profits point of view it is now a very […]

January 10, 2018By Chris Forrester

Haier, Google Android TV partnership

Haier, a global player in consumer electronics and appliances, has announced an expanded partnership with Google to launch multiple series of Google Android TV products globally in 2018. “Haier is expanding on the success of Haier Chromecast built in televisions, by taking the next step and enhancing our partnership with Google on a global basis,” […]

January 9, 2018

Momentum grows for HDR10+

20th Century Fox, Panasonic Corporation and Samsung Electronics have announced updates to the associated certification and logo programme for the open, royalty-free dynamic metadata platform for High Dynamic Range (HDR), called HDR10+ which they initially announced in September 2017 at IFA. The HDR10+ platform will soon be made available to content companies, ultra-high definition TVs, […]

January 8, 2018

Samsung stuns CES with The Wall

Amongst the slew of giant screens, all Ultra-HD and usually HDR or Dolby Vision-equipped, few expected South Korean electronics giant Samsung to do much at CES 2018  that was truly spectacular. But it managed to pull a massive rabbit out of its box of tricks and showcased a truly exciting development for TV – and […]

January 8, 2018By Chris Forrester

Technicolor HDR for Philips TVs

Funai Electric, the exclusive North American licensee for Philips consumer televisions and home video products, has confirmed that Technicolor HDR will be integrated into US market 2019 Philips televisions in conjunction with the launch of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. Work is underway to include HDR in the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, expected to be […]

January 8, 2018

Global 4K tech market forecast CAGR of 20%

A study by Research & Markets (R&M) says that there will be an acceleration in the adoption of 4K technologies, with compound average growth rates (CAGR) of some 20 percent in value terms by 2022. The R&M study says that the growth will come from a “surge” in the adoption of 4K projectors and 4K […]

January 4, 2018By Chris Forrester

AI boost for LG TVs

At CES 2018 – the world’s largest consumer electronics show – LG Electronics (LG) says it will raise the home entertainment experience to another level with the introduction of ThinQ artificial intelligence (AI) and an advanced image processor in its newest OLED and SUPER UHD TVs. ThinQ allows the implementation of hundreds of voice requests […]

January 3, 2018