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7.7% Of Americans Will Buy A New TV For Super Bowl: NRF
A new poll from the National Retail Federation (that’s NRF, not NFL), shows that 7.7 percent of Americans plan to buy a new TV...
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Study: 74% of U.S. Broadband Homes Have An Internet-Connected TV
The penetration of Internet-connected TVs among U.S. broadband homes has climbed from 50% in 2013, to about 74% by the end of 2016, according...
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The 4K Era Is Here, And Already 8K Looms
Digesting the state of the video category, post-CES, we can talk of OLED vs LCD, backlit vs edge lit, HDR formats, streaming or physical...
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Samsung Promises Smarter TV Services at CES
Samsung Electronics will debut a trio of smart TV services at CES, allowing owners of TVs with Samsung’s Smart Hub platform to personalize their...
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NPD: 238 Million Internet-Connected TV Devices By 2020
The NPD Group is anticipating an explosion in Internet-connected TVs over the next three years. According to a new report by the market research...
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John Homlish Named President Of Haier’s New Standalone CE Biz
Industry veteran John Homlish has been tapped to head a newly-created CE unit for China’s Haier Group covering the U.S. and Canada. The new TV...
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DirecTV Now, Sling Cloud DVR Announcements Take OTT Really Over the Top
The week after Thanksgiving started off the holiday season with a bang, giving those who want over-the-top (OTT) TV services — or those who...
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4K TV Adoption Outpacing HDTV Transition
Though the adoption of 4K video by programmers and service providers hasn’t occurred as quickly as some vendors were expecting, U.S. consumer adoption of...
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Apple TV Gets An App, Not A New Device, And It Raises Many Questions
The current version of Apple TV was introduced just over a year ago, but given the lightning pace of progress in streaming devices, it...
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MLB Quietly Pioneers The U.S. ATSC 3.0 TV Era With World Series Broadcast
A local TV station in Cleveland is ushering in the era of next-generation TV broadcasting with the first live ATSC 3.0 broadcast of The...
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1 in 5 Americans Would Rather Binge Watch TV Than Have Sex
TCL has revealed the results of its recent national poll regarding cord cutting, the smart television experience and viewing habits. More than one in...
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LeEco Goes Disruptive On All Fronts: Products, Ecosystem, Distribution
When TWICE reported the sale of Vizio to Chinese electronics and content services giant LeEco earlier this year, it’s probable that few in the...
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LG Boosts Payment Options On Its Smart TVs
Offers 140 payment options in 200 countries via webOS app LG Electronics is boosting the capabilities of it smart TVs to make online content...
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Hisense Unveils Its Largest TV Screen Sizes Ever
Goal For A Bigger Presence In The U.S. Market Reflected In 70-To 100-Inch Offerings Hisense is going big with its new TV line. The...
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Hitachi Now Shipping 4K Roku TVs
Hitachi America said its first three 4K/Ultra HD TVs powered by Roku’s streaming platform are arriving in stores this month. The partnership was first...
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Hisense Takes On Samsung, Vizio In Shopping Mall Screen Test
Are tier-one TVs worth the higher price tag when it comes to picture quality? Hisense, and 100 consumers, say no. The Chinese manufacturer put...
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Xiaomi Starts Selling $69 4K Mi Box
China-based CE giant Xiaomi has launched the Mi Box, its 4K-capable Android TV device in the U.S. for $69, a move that applies some...
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Analysis: Roku’s Refreshed Streaming Devices Line
When the Netflix Player by Roku was first introduced back in 2008 it may have been hard to foresee that would lead not just...
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4K Era Has Arrived In The Mainstream: CTA’s Joseph
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) is bullish about 4K Ultra HD and emerging new video technologies. Communications director Jeff Joseph dropped some statistics...
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No Soundbar Needed: Haier TVs Will Now Deliver Clearer Dialogue With DBX-TV
DBX-TV’s Total Technology sound-enhancement suite will now be included in several Haier TVs, DBX-TV announced. Total Technology is designed to provide “deep, captivating audio”...
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Vizio Teams With NFL’s Allen Robinson For TV Giveaways
Vizio will once again kick off the NFL season with a campaign to award its M-Series TVs to football fans as well as the...
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CEDIA 2016: Screen Innovations Fights Gravity With ‘Levitating’ Motorized Projection Screen
Projection screen provider Screen Innovations (SI) will come to CEDIA to show its new Zero-G motorized projection screen that appears to float in mid-air...
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LG’s Massive OLED Tunnel May Be The Coolest Thing At IFA
LG Electronics is welcoming attendees to IFA 2016 in Berlin in impressive fashion with a 5-meter-tall, 15-meter-long tunnel constructed from 216 55-inch curved OLED...
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Sony, Intel Team For 4K Movie Streaming
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Intel announced a partnership to debut Sony’s Ultra 4K movie streaming service to PCs with Intel’s 7th Gen Core...
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IFA 2016: LG To Demo Broader HDR Compatibility
LG Electronics is expanding its support of high-dynamic range (HDR) technologies and will hold several demonstrations of its OLED TVs at next week’s IFA...
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Vizio Enhances SmartCast App; Adds Google Play Movies And TV Content
Vizio announced updates to its SmartCast TVs experience, with a more robust app and additional content offerings. “Coming soon,” according to the company, Google...
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TVs – 40 To 57 Inches: Philips 6000 Series Google Cast TV 55PFL6921
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Google Cast is a technology that lets you cast your favorite entertainment from your phone, tablet or laptop right...
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TVs – 58 Inches And Larger: Hisense H10 Series
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Hisense will offer consumers the third generation of its proprietary Ultra LED technology in the H10 series with 240-zone...
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TVs – 58 Inches And Larger: Samsung Electronics KS9800 9-Series Curved 4K SUHD TV
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Samsung’s 2016 flagship TV – the KS9800 4K SUHD TV — delivers unparalleled brightness, contrast and color in addition...
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Terrestrial HD Antenna Sales Spike For Olympic Broadcast
More evidence that Americans are increasingly cutting the cable cord: Channel Master announced that for the weekend prior to the Olympic opening ceremonies, July...
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Vizio SmartCast P- & M-Series TVs Getting HDR10 Compatibility
Vizio is sending out a firmware update to its SmartCast P- and M-series Ultra HD TVs that enables support for the HDR10 format specification...
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Copyright Office Has Big Issues With FCC Set-Top Plan
The U.S. Copyright Office told some House members this week that while it “welcomes and supports” the FCC’s stated goal of promoting competition and...
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LG OLED TVs Anchor Democratic & Republican National Conventions
LG Electronics USA had its OLED TVs front and center at both parties’ national conventions last month. LG’s OLED TVs were named the “official...
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Sony Reveals New Flagship 4K HDR Ultra HD TV Z Series
‘A generational advance in TV technology,’ says Fasulo Sony Electronics unveiled its new flagship Z-series 4K Ultra HD TVs with what the company called...
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J.D. Power Crowns Samsung & Sony Winners In 2016 TV Satisfaction Report
J.D. Power has issued its “2016 TV Satisfaction Report,” and new winners have been crowned. What’s more, retailers should know the in-store display is...
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Vizio Being Sold To LeEco
American TV manufacturer Vizio is being sold to Chinese technology company LeEco for about $2 billion. Vizio will be operated as a wholly owned...
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How Sony’s New Z Series Advances The 4K/HDR Market
There are two interesting tussles going on in the TV industry in recent years. One pits the remaining Japanese legacy brands, such as Sony,...
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Roku, Hitachi Team For Smart TVs
Hitachi America has added itself to the list of TV makers that will offer smart TVs using the Roku platform. The company expects to...
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Panasonic Leaves U.S. TV Market But Eyes Return
After scaling back its U.S. TV presence in 2014, Panasonic pulled out completely early this year but is studying a comeback, a spokesperson confirmed....
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NASCAR’s Hisense 4K TV 300 Starts Its Engines Saturday
Hisense returns tomorrow as title sponsor of the 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series Hisense 4K TV 300 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, where driver Denny...
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NBC Announces 4K Plans for Rio Olympics
Just a few months before the 2016 Summer Olympics kick off in Rio, NBC Olympics has announced it will offer its cable, satellite and...
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Philips Bringing Google Cast To 4K TVs Starting In June
P&F USA’s first Google Cast-equipped TVs arrive in June and July via a quartet of Philips-brand 4KUltra HD TVs featuring high dynamic range (HDR)....