For its TV sets in the Australian and South American markets TCL Multimedia, the global television manufacturer, has signed an agreement with Foxxum to provide a state of the art Smart TV portal. Both companies stated that the cooperation marks an important step towards an even stronger growth of market shares in those parts of […]
Suggesting that “the time is right”, TCL, the world’s third largest television manufacturer, has announced pricing and availability of its 4K Ultra HD TCL Roku TV models for the US, bringing UHD 4K picture quality to its Smart TVs that integrate the Roku OS. Originally announced at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, the new 4K […]
Following the successful launch in October 2015 of live TV streaming app TVPlayer on Amazon Fire, live streaming and live-to-VoD solutions provider Simplestream has confirmed that pay-TV lite streaming service TVPlayer Plus is now available on Amazon Fire TV, which brings the total offering of channels to 75 within a single app for a low-cost […]
With so many smart TVs now featuring Netflix as a pre-installed feature, the streaming giant has put them to the test to tell viewers which are the best. TVs receiving the new ‘Netflix Recommended’ logo have to pass a stringent set of criteria including performance, ease of access and speed. In a blog post, Netflix […]
Danish triple-play operator Waoo! has confirmed the immediate availability of its latest hybrid set-top box, first unveiled at CES in January. The STB is the first in Denmark to support 4K, and among the first in the world to integrate Netflix. Waoo! became the Internet entertainment streaming service’s third cable partner in November 2013, following […]
The popularity of streaming devices has grown significantly in the last couple of years, especially in the US. According to Dataxis, Apple TV has more than 23 million active users globally, out of these approximately 7 million are in Europe. Roku is
Ooyala has released its Q4 2015 Global Video Index, showing the total number of programmatic transactions increased 160 per cent since Q3 2015. Further, the report highlights video consumption trends throughout Asia-Pacific (APAC), as five of the 15 APAC countries analysed in the report usurp the global average of mobile video viewing, specifically on tablets. […]
Amazon, Apple, Google and Roku accounted for more than eight out of every 10 Digital Media Streamer shipments worldwide in 2015, strengthening their combined grip on the fast growing category. Google’s HDMI dongle continues to lead the standalone streamer market and it has now cemented itself as a Top 5 player in the overall Connected […]
The advent of On Demand, IPTV and OTT viewing trends has spurred the global TV industry into a new ‘golden age’, according to Eric Ellenbogen, the Co-Head of International TV & DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation. “Today’s TV programming features the biggest stars in the entertainment industry,” said Ellenbogen during a keynote speech at the CABSAT […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report – from Regional TAM, OzTAM and Nielsen, covering the fourth quarter of 2015 – shows that, despite the proliferation of connected devices, the vast majority of all video viewing in Australia takes place on in-home TV sets. Across all screens and all types of video content – broadcast and non-broadcast […]