There was a kind of funny story all over the press here last week. Amazon Echoes in California (where else) started ordering doll’s houses for their owners. In a true case of echoes within echoes, a local TV show in San Diego was reporting how a young girl had told Alexa – the Echo’s operating […]
Sony Pictures Television’s portfolio of kids’ channels is launching a catch-up service on UK Internet TV platform YouView from January 10th. Following YouView’s recent announcement of a re-engineering and redesign of the entire platform, Sony Kids is the first player to launch since the roll out of the new software. Sony Kids brings together Sony’s […]
The ascent of social media platforms as video destination sites is having a dramatic impact on the viewing behaviour and screen choices of consumers. Ampere research shows that social-media
Samsung says the QLED TV is world’s first television to reproduce 100 per cent colour volume thanks to new and advanced Quantum Dot technology “2017 will mark a major paradigm shift in the visual display industry, ushering in the era of QLED,” said HyunSuk Kim, President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “With […]
Industry data shared by streaming device specialist Roku reveal incredible momentum for the Roku TV programme in just two years since its launch. As of December 2016, following launch into Mexico, there were 100 Roku TV models available in the North American market. Roku TVs accounted for 13 per cent of all US smart TV […]
High definition TV will become the norm in the UK from January 1st 2017 as the Freeview logo is withdrawn from new SD TVs and set-top boxes. Guy North, Managing Director of digital terrestrial TV platform Freeview, described the move as “a landmark moment” in the evolution of UK television which would pave the way […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI has expanded its RaiPlay OTT service to Smart TVs. RaiPlay now enables TV viewers to directly access a selection of the flagship programmes from RAI’s TV channels and archive material. The offer includes content from the Rai1, Rai2, Rai3, Rai4, Rai5, RaiMovie and RaiPremium channels as well as kids channels RaiGulp […]
According to the NPD Connected Intelligence Connected Home Forecast, by the end of 2019, 238 million installed devices are expected to be connected to the Internet and able to deliver apps to TVs, representing 59 per cent growth from 2015 to 2019. Connected TVs are projected to drive 45 per cent of the growth over […]
Findings from trade body the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) suggest that nearly two-thirds (62 per cent) of American consumers own at least one Internet of Things connected device (connected car, connected/smart TV, fitness tracker, home control system or appliance, internet-enabled voice command, smart glasses, smart watch, VR headset, or wearable)—and 65 per cent of them […]
Research from market and consumer information source GfK into the UK’s OTT viewing habits has revealed surprisingly low audience numbers on mobile devices. It seems that watching subscription video content on Netflix, Amazon and Now TV is, for now, most definitely an in-home entertainment experience. The vast majority (90 per cent) of the UK’s OTT […]