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, […]
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on proposed technical rule changes to facilitate the use of the US’s next generation television broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0. The proposed rules would permit greater flexibility for broadcasters to use distributed transmission systems (DTS) as they deploy ATSC 3.0 in their networks. […]
Japanese electronics giants Sharp and NEC are to create a joint-venture by combining NEC’s Display Solutions (NDS). The pair say the joint ventire will allow both companies to build upon their strengths and address the visualisation needs of their global customers, and will help bring 8K+5G products to market. The agreement sees NEC transfer 66 […]
Cybersecurity solutions provider Verimatrix and semiconductor specialist Broadcom are collaborating to streamline Android TV set-top box (STB) deployments. By pre-integrating components of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) with Broadcom’s Android TV Platform, the partners offer a fast time-to-market for any video service provider looking to launch Android TV streaming, including 4K/UHD services. Designed […]
Television makers that had been planning to significantly boost their display panel purchasing in the second quarter now may be forced to curb their ambitions as concerns rise over a potential coronavirus-driven recession, reports Omdia. South Korean and Chinese TV makers were hoping to take advantage of improving panel availability conditions in the second quarter […]