Hama, the accessory manufacturer expert, and FOXXUM, specialised in providing Smart TV technology solutions, have established a strategic partnership with one another to strengthen their position in the international Smart TV business. This exclusive collaboration will allow Hama not only to augment its first-class multimedia offerings with innovative, user-friendly Smart TV portal solutions with extensive […]
LG Electronics has revealed a line-up of IP-connected devices for platforms including its own NetCast Smart TV operating system and Google TV which are designed to blend cable-supplied, TV Everywhere, VoD and whole-home DVR capabilities with over-the-top apps from Hulu, Vudu, and YouTube and others. LG said it will use DLNA to connect to home […]
Following the news that online entertainment service Redbox Instant by Verizon can now be accessed via a newly-launched Redbox Instant by Verizon app for Google TV has come confirmation that Roku will bring the service to its streaming platform this summer. The partnership expands Redbox Instant by Verizon to one of the most popular streaming […]
Boku, a specilaist in online mobile payments, has formed a partnership with PlayJam – global platform for games on TV. The partnership brings carrier billing to smart televisions and other consumer electronics around the world, including devices from Samsung, Panasonic, LGE, Vizio, Western Digital, Google TV and VESTEL. This agreement allows more than 90 Million […]
A Rovi study has provided updated metrics on connected TV owner demographics and usage for the first quarter 2013. When compared with previous results, the findings suggest the market for connected TVs is maturing rapidly. The audience for connected TVs is shifting, with females now – for the first time since Rovi and Decipher began […]
Lenovo Group has unveiled smart TVs developed with Japan’s Sharp Corp amid reports that the Chinese company is buying Sharp’s TV plant in Nanjing. Beijing-based Lenovo is planning to sell one million smart TVs online over the next three years, said Chen Xudong, senior vice-president and general manager of Lenovo’s China unit. “Demand for smart […]
eyeIO has confirmed that its UltraHD compression encoding technology has been licensed by Sony Pictures to enable the studio to offer the first-ever 4K UltraHD content delivered to the home. Owners of Sony Electronics 4K UltraHD TVs will be able to access a selection of 4K movies delivered to their sets via Sony’s 4K media […]
New data from MediaBug – Decipher’s bi-annual media tech tracker – have revealed that in homes in which both a Smart TV and a VoD enabled STB are present, an overwhelming 73 per cent choose to access their catch-up TV through the STB. The main reason given is ‘quick to access’, which highlights a key […]
According to Analysys Mason Senior Analyst, Cesar Bachelet, the firm’s latest consumer survey, conducted in five countries in Europe and the USA, more than a third of respondents were interested in buying a Smart TV set, but of the one in five respondents who claimed to own a smart TV, fewer than half of those […]
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2012-2017) projects that global Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017. Global IP traffic (fixed and mobile) is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes ― more than a trillion gigabytes per year – by 2017. Internet video users are projected […]