Following recent launches of TV Everywhere apps, global media content company A+E Networks is continuing its momentum with the addition of Roku devices to its watch apps offerings. A&E, HISTORY and Lifetime network apps are available on Roku players – including Roku 3, Roku 2, Roku LT, Roku HD and the Roku Streaming Stick. The […]
Opera Software and Sigma Designs, a provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, have announced that the Opera Devices SDK will land in Sigma Designs’ Smart TV processors. Opera partnered with Sigma in 2013 to demonstrate Opera’s TV web products for Sigma Designs’ Smart TV processors. Now, by licensing […]
In the presence of an eager press corps at CES in Las Vegas, LG revealed that its broad new 2014 line of Ultra HD TVs with LG’s proprietary webOS Smart TV platform will support content streaming in Ultra HD 4K from Internet television network Netflix. In total, 12 new models comprise LG’s 2014 Ultra HD […]
M-GO, a pay-as-you-go digital movie and TV streaming service joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation, has developed a comprehensive 4K streaming service to launch on Samsung UHD TVs in the spring of 2014. M-GO will kick off with a wide selection of full-length 4K theatrical hits and popular TV shows from Hollywood’s leading studios […]
Sky IQ, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BSkyB specialising in TV viewing behaviours, has published a range of predictions for 2014 from the musings of Liam Plowman Strategy & Propositions, Sky IQ Customer Intelligence Services. These predictions include TV advertising becoming as personalised as online, new ad releases being hotly anticipated throughout the year; not just […]
As giant consumer electronics show CES gets under way in Las Vegas, streaming software platform for delivering video Roku has unveiled Roku TV, a new generation of Smart TVs designed to give consumers a simple entertainment experience in a complex connected world. The company plans to license the new reference design platform and software stack […]
DISH Network has developed a ‘Virtual Joey’ software application that delivers the DISH Hopper HD-DVR experience on 2013 and 2014 LG Smart TVs in the US. The app can be used instead of DISH’s hardware-based Joey, increasing installation options where coaxial or Ethernet wiring may be difficult to access. “Television placement is so often dictated […]
Digital age photography and consumer electronics specialist Polaroid is showing what it describes as a superior quality, affordable new line of televisions at CES 2014. Polaroid will début a 50” Smart TV that is Roku Ready, as well as a 50” Ultra HD 4K Television. According to Polaroid, the sets will provide consumers with unparalleled […]
Opera Software has revealed that apps from the Opera TV Store are now available for download on select Samsung Blu-ray players, providing viewers with more choices of online and streaming entertainment for their TV screens. “The Opera TV Store unleashes the full potential of online video content, the most popular consumption category on Blu-ray players […]
Research commissioned by movie and TV streaming service blinkbox suggests that the post-Christmas period could see a surge in on-demand viewing. The Tesco-owned operation suggests that a whopping number of Brits claim they will be turning to the Internet more than ever this Christmas, with most of us fed up with TV Scrooges serving up […]