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Lumagen Raises the Video Processor Performance Bar with the New ARTISAN 8K Video Processor
This is the first 8K processor from this worldwide video processor leader
Netflix
Products
It Doesn’t Take A Genius To Know Bringing Apple TV Plus To Android Is A Smart Move, Apple. Here’s Why.
Apple should have done this YEARS ago
Blu-ray/DVD
Best Buy Stops Selling DVDs And Blu-rays Just As Disney Offloads Physical Media To Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Once a major economic driver for the studios, the physical media industry is rapidly crumbling in the shadow of streaming platforms
Products
Emotn Launches The N1 Smart Projector, Officially Licensed By Netflix
Featuring access to the Netflix library at the press of a button, the N1 delivers a theater-like audio-visual experience with Dolby Audio through dual...
Products
Most Smart TV Owners Still Use An External Streaming Device
When a smart TV just isn't smart enough...
Blogs
What Size TV Do You Need For Your Dorm Room?
Heading off to college? Here’s how to determine which TV is right for you
Audio
Netflix’s Spatial Audio Tested: Cheap Gimmick, Or The Real Deal?
The new Netflix audio format gets a listen
Research
U.S. TV Homes Using A Smart TV To Stream Up 15 Percentage Points Since 2020
Hub Entertainment Research reveals the huge pandemic-era shift in consumption patterns. The big question in a post-growth era for Netflix: Is this shift still...
Product Spotlight
LG Expands webOS Smart TV Platform
LG opens platform and integrated content services to other TV brand partners
Products
Google’s Developer-Focused ADT-3 Android TV Device Surfaces At Walmart
Previously used only as hardware to aid the development of streaming apps for Android 10, the box is now available to consumers for only...
Products
Netflix Now Supported By Google Nest Hub
Google beats Amazon in bringing top streaming service to its smart display
Keeping Current
Disney+ Signed Up 24M Users In November, Analyst Says
Equity research company Cowen said debut of rival SVOD service costs Netflix 1 million subscribers
Keeping Current
Future Announces Acquisition Of Barcroft Studios
Barcroft creates content for over 50 global platforms including Netflix, BBC, National Geographic Channel
Keeping Current
Cord Cutters Now Averaging 520GB Of Monthly Data Usage: Research Report
Homes that have ditched video increased internet usage by 7% in Q3, according to Broadband solutions provider OpenVault
Keeping Current
Disney Plus Streaming Service Is Now Live: How To Sign Up, App Links And More
The Disney Plus streaming service has launched in the US, Canada and the Netherlands
Products
Disney Plus will be on Amazon Fire TV (and Fire tablets) after all
Companies make nice for our streaming benefit
Keeping Current
Survey: Streamers Now Access Two-Third of Their Video Online: Multichannel News
Horowitz said 'content omnivores' want one-stop video shopping
Need to Know
One Fifth of Cable Subscribers Say They’ll Cut the Cord in the Next Year
Less cable, more streaming
Products
A/V In ’18: 5 Foundational Changes & 11 Newsmakers
Examining what shook up the A/V category this year
Products
Sony Showcases IMAX & Netflix Partnerships At CEDIA Expo
Sony dazzled CEDIA Expo attendees at its booth with demonstrations of its recently announced Master 4K TVs, a new series of projectors, and its...
Industry
CEDIA Keynote: Integrators Poised For Content Revolution
And ready to reap the "spoils of war."
Products
Sony Introduces Master Series TVs With Netflix Calibrated Mode
“Video the way the creator intended”
Products
Pay TV Providers Hanging On With Online Partnerships
Parks Associates research reveals growth in Pay TV/streaming service packages
Blogs
4 Brands That Nailed Their CES 2018 Marketing
How these companies created a massive impact without invoking the actual product
news
T-Mobile Adds Free Netflix In Latest ‘Un-Carrier’ Move
T-Mobile has added a major new incentive to its basket of wireless lures. Beginning next Tuesday (Sept. 12), the carrier will pick up the...
news
Dolby Atmos Comes To Netflix
Dolby Atmos support has arrived at Netflix, the streaming service’s chief product officer Greg Peters announced in a company blog post. The support becomes...
news
Sony, LG & Samsung Win Netflix’s 2017 Recommended TV Designation
Netflix announced its Recommended TVs for 2017, a program that highlights TV manufacturers who have taken pains to ensure seamless integration with the video-streaming...
news
Amazon Going Global With Video Content Is Just The Beginning
Lat year, CES 2016 provided one of the most significant recent announcements in the video space as Reed Hastings stated Netflix was going global....
news
Now You Can Download Netflix Videos For Offline Viewing
Netflix subscribers received an added perk this morning: the ability to download video content for off-line viewing. Rival Amazon also offers a similar feature...
Keeping Current
Netflix To FCC: Unleash The Internet
In an Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing, the streaming-media site decried home broadband data caps of 300GB (Comcast), and unlimited mobile data for only...
news
Netflix Reveals More HDR & Dolby Vision Plans
Netflix revealed more details about its planned push into high dynamic range (HDR) and Dolby Vision. The streaming content company has been ramping up...
news
Amazon Nudges Netflix With Video-Only Prime Subscription
Amazon is now offering a Netflix-like option by opening access to its vast Prime Video library for $8.99 a month. The stand-alone service excludes...
Home Satellite
Dish Adds 4K Netflix To Hopper 3 DVR
Dish expanded the selection of 4K Ultra HD streaming services available through its Hopper 3 DVR, adding 4K Netflix programming to supplement 4K programming...
news
LG, Sony Offering 4K TVs Meeting New Netflix Recommended Criteria
LG and Sony are the first TV makers to announce that select 2016 TVs have been certified under Netflix’s more stringent 2016 certification criteria...
Keeping Current
FCC Won’t Probe Netflix For Throttling Video Over Wireless Networks
Netflix’s conduct is “outside” the FCC’s net neutrality rules, the FCC said, because the FCC regulates wireless networks, not “edge providers” or websites. “The...
news
Netflix Gets Hammered Over ‘Throttling’
With Netflix apparently having discriminated in its delivery of Internet video to wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon, after those carriers had been accused of doing...
news
Here’s How Much Time We Spend Streaming Video On Smartphones
More than 80 percent of all smartphone owners are streaming video, but people ages 25 and under spend more than twice the amount of...
Keeping Current
These Socks Will Pause Netflix When You Fall Asleep
The Maker Movement has come to Netflix. The streaming service released a DIY tutorial for making socks that will automatically pause Netflix when you...
news
Will T-Mobile Offer Unlimited High-Speed Video Streaming Of Netflix, HBO?
Speculation is growing that T-Mobile subscribers will be allowed unlimited high-speed streaming of select video services as part of the carrier’s next “Uncarrier” initiative,...
news
Vizio Prices Reference TVs At $129,999 & $5,999
Vizio’s 120-inch 365-pound RS 120 Reference series Ultra HD TV will be priced at $129,000 when it is available later this year in time...
Blogs
A Transformative Emmy Awards
Over the last decade or so, the line between the technology world and the entertainment world has been blurring. Even CES has morphed into...