LG’s senior managers are impressed by how consumers are buying into LG’s flagship OLED television screens. Their high-end Organic Light-Emitting Diode-based (OLED) displays have sold more than 10,000 units in South Korea in September, and the best-ever month for sales. LG says they were selling an OLED set every four minutes. Helping is a fall […]
Streaming platform and device specialist Roku has unveiled two new streaming players in the UK, which it says will give people who enjoy TV better ways to connect to the streaming entertainment they love. Roku Express is the most affordable streaming player Roku ever launched in the UK, priced at just £29.99 (€33.50) MSRP. Roku […]
Sky Q customers will soon be able to enjoy new features including enhanced Voice Control via the Sky Q touch remote, a personalised menu of favourite channels and an Ultra HD section in My Q. With the new Voice Control features, viewers will be able to speak into their remote and use a range of […]
Dubai-based MBC, perhaps the most important commercial broadcaster in the MENA region, says it has no plans for 4K broadcasting. MBC’s CEO Sam Barnett, speaking at Arabsat’s Customer Forum, in Oman, said bluntly that he could see no “Return on investment for 4K. I maintain it is a conspiracy by the engineers,” he told delegates […]
Sony has unveiled an updated version of its PlayStation VR headset, offering HDR support, integrated headphones, and a slightly new design. Models of the PS VR bearing the ‘CUH-ZVR2’ number will have the updated features and design, with Sony making the packaging different so that shoppers can tell the difference. This biggest change is the […]
Insight TV, a producer of unscripted UHD content covering adventure travel and extreme sports genres, has announced a distribution deal with Deutsche Telekom. The German telco will launch Insight TV’s linear UHD channel on its Entertain TV platform. Insight TV will be available from autumn 2017. Entertain TV offers more than 100 HD channels, with […]
Travelxp 4K is going live with a full transmission service on October 1st on Eutelsat’s ‘hot bird’ satellite. The launch means that viewers of suitable 4K displays will be able to view Travelxp’s impressive – and mostly High Dynamic Range – output. Travelxp 4K has been gathering travel and tourism footage and programming for the […]
DISH, the US pay-TV provider is now offering a whole-home 4K Netflix experience. After offering Netflix Ultra HD titles on its Hopper 3 DVR since April 2016, the company added the app to its 4K Joey client. Now DISH customers have the ability to stream a catalogue of Ultra HD TV shows and movies on […]
In a move that massively undercuts rival Apple’s similar product launched in mid-September and priced at $179 (€153) for 32GB of storage, and $199 for 64GB, Amazon has announced the all-new Fire TV featuring Ultra HD, High Dynamic Range (HDR), and Alexa Voice Remote for just $69.99. Forty per cent more powerful than Fire TV […]
The traditional pay-TV STB will remain a fixture in consumer homes worldwide, as operators counter the threat posed by media streamers by adding features such as SVoD services, voice search and smart home functionality, according to a Futuresource Consulting report. Worldwide media box shipments, which include both STBs and media streamers (such as Amazon Fire […]