This month, Vizio, the North American vendor of value-priced television lines sold heavily in warehouse clubs and discount store chains, amended its exclusive use of smart TVs based on the Chromecast platform as it expanded its selection of app partners beyond the Google ecosystem. The move not only lets Vizio customers access a more traditional […]
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Sharp/Foxconn Undeterred In Bid To Reclaim Sharp Marketing Rights
Terry Gou, chairman of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, the parent of electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, is looking to expand the company’s global footprint using its recently acquired majority stake in Sharp Corp., but Hisense is standing in the way. In recent weeks, Gou’s companies have been the focus of almost daily news articles concerning […]
Samsung Rallies Industry Support For `QLED’ TVs
Samsung has started making it known throughout the consumer video display industry that it would like anyone involved in the development, production and sale of display devices enhanced by quantum dot technology to begin referring to those devices as “QLED,” short for Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diode,” displays. Samsung is hoping that broad-based use of […]
Nagra TVKey Looks To Eliminate Set-top Boxes Around The World
Swiss-based encryption-systems developer Nagra used last month’s CES 2017 to showcase a new conditional access (CA) platform that can eliminate the set-top box (STB) from the pay cable and satellite TV business paradigm, while bringing television manufacturers a potentially lucrative ancillary revenue stream. The company demonstrated at the show its TVKey platform, which is being […]
How TV Manufacturers Can Get to an OLED Future
Recent trends on display at both the IFA 2016 electronics show in Berlin, IBC 2016 in Amsterdam, and CEDIA Expo 2016 in Dallas showed that large-screen televisions based on organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology are in for significant revenue and unit growth as multiple vendors enter the market. Meanwhile, new OLED production technologies are […]
Will Hybrid Log-Gamma Present An HDR Log Jam?
As the nascent market for 4K Ultra TVs with high dynamic range (HDR) continues to accelerate, a number of competing standards have emerged, promising to deliver peak luminance, color grading picture improvement benefits, and backward compatibility with standard dynamic range (SDR) TV sets. Looking to avoid confusion in the market, television set manufacturers have shied […]
TV Alliance Strains Under Competition Vs. Cooperation Conundrum
Despite staging an elaborate CES 2016 press event to show solidarity for its next generation 4K Ultra TV standard and logo program, the UHD Alliance’s (UHDA) effort is not as unified as the group’s leadership would like us to believe. The group’s announced standards and definitions for premium 4K Ultra HDTV displays has been rejected […]