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28 Jul 2023

Vizio D-Series Full HD Smart TV

The Vizio D-Series Full HD Smart TV offers smooth performance and a good display at a budget-friendly price. However, don't expect a 4K experience with a price point that is less than $200. Smart TVs are a great way to cut the cord and not be strapped to a cable plan. They allow you to stream content from multiple apps without the need to plug in an external media source. The future of television is apps, and companies nowadays are setting the stage — with dedicated operating systems — to support all popular streaming services. The Vizio D-Series Full HD Smart TV doesn't come with a 4K display that you see in smart televisions today. Still, its reasonable price makes [...]

13 Jul 2023

Increased reach for TVP services

Up to five thematic channels operated by the Polish public broadcaster TVP are now being distributed by the operators Play and UPC. According to TVP, the channels in question are TVP Info, TVP Kultura, TVP Nauka and Alfa TVP. Separately, the public broadcaster’s on demand service TVP VOD can now be received on Samsung TVs with the Tizen 3.0 operating system. As a result, the TVP VOD app is now available on over 84% of smart TVs in Poland. These include LG and Hisense as well as Samsung. TVP has also released a new mobile app for the channel TVP Polonia, which is aimed principally at the Polish diaspora.

12 Jul 2023

Samsung initie la fin des box TV chez Free, Orange, SFR et Bouygues

Avec l'ajout de SFR TV, les applications des principaux fournisseurs d'accès à internet (FAI) comme Free, Orange, SFR et Bouygues Telecom sont désormais disponibles directement sur les téléviseurs Samsung. Vous pouvez donc vous passer d'une box TV. Le saviez-vous ? La révolution de la télévision pourrait bien être en marche grâce à Samsung. L’entreprise sud-coréenne propose en effet une alternative intéressante à la box TV traditionnelle. Au travers de son système d’exploitation Tizen, intégré à ses téléviseurs, elle offre la possibilité de profiter de SFR TV, ainsi que des applications des autres principaux fournisseurs d’accès à internet (FAI) tels qu’Orange, Free (via l’application Oqee) et Bouygues Telecom. Plus besoin d’une box TV pour accéder aux chaînes offertes avec votre abonnement. [...]

17 Apr 2023

Smart TVs pass 200 MN milestone

Confirming smart TVs’ growth in presence and in use, the fifth annual wave of Hub Entertainment Research’s Connected Home study has revealed that American homes now own an estimated 204 million smart TV sets. The Connected Home 2023 report was based on a survey conducted among 5,026 US consumers in February 2023 and cover consumer ownership of many types of media-related technologies. A top line finding was that smart TV ownership continues to climb with over a majority of all TV sets – six in ten (61%) –now reported to be smart sets, up from 45% in 2020 with TV homes reporting an average of 1.7 smart TVs per home. Base an estimate of about 120 million TV homes, this [...]

13 Mar 2023

Roku

Roku unveils Roku OS 12 with an emphasis on Live TV and Sports Roku has announced the next version of its smart TV OS. That’s Roku OS 12. Which has a focus on Live TV as well as Sports this time around. For Live TV, Roku is going to offer up local news. Which will allow users to watch live news channels personalized by location or stream channels from major cities across the US. This is thanks to Roku having over 350+ free linear TV streaming channels, across many different genres. And now, they’ll be available in one spot. Roku users will be able to search for “local news” on Roku and and also visit the Live TV Zone on [...]

03 Mar 2023

Samsung TV Plus

Samsung TV Plus adds more free channels and shows Samsung has added three new channels to its free streaming service Samsung TV Plus. The Price is Right, Jamie Oliver, and Divorce Court channels are now available to watch for free in the US. To honor Women’s History Month in March, the service will also offer films featuring leading ladies of Hollywood on The Movie Hub and FilmRise Free Movies. Samsung TV Plus is one of the best perks of owning a Samsung TV. The service gives you tons of free video content to watch, with new channels added regularly. It currently offers you access to more than 250 premium channels spanning news, sports, entertainment, auto, and other genres. And you [...]

27 Jan 2023

free

Free propose deux nouveaux modèles de Smart TV à ses abonnés Freebox Après un retour la semaine dernière sur l’espace abonné Freebox, la boutique proposant des téléviseurs connectés Samsung s’étoffe avec deux nouveaux modèles. Il y a du mouvement sur la boutique dédiée aux Smart TV Samsung. L’opérateur propose en effet deux nouveaux téléviseurs, dont la renommée “The Frame”. Après avoir intégré l’OLED dans sa boutique, Free permet donc d’acheter un nouveau téléviseur 4K QLED, le modèle Q82B en 55 pouces. Il est proposé avec une remise immédiate de 50€ et coûtera ainsi 199€ à la commande puis 19.99€/mois pendant trente mois. Soit un prix total de 799€ en comptant Le modèle “The Frame” est également proposé, en QLED et [...]

20 Jan 2023

Parks Associates

Parks Associates: 63% of US internet households own a smart TV The proportion of US internet households that own a smart TV has risen by 25 percentage points since 2015. In its OTT Video Market Tracker, Parks Associates shows 63% of US internet households own a smart TV, up from 38% in 2015. It comes as companies such as Roku, which announced at CES it would manufacture its own line of smart TVs this year, move from dongles and sticks to displays and receivers. “Smart TVs are part of the modern home; this device will be a key element of an integrated whole-home entertainment vision going forward,” said Elizabeth Parks, President, Parks Associates. “New applications and integration are bringing together [...]

13 Jan 2023

Tivo

First TiVo Smart TVs to ship this spring A range of TiVo-powered Smart TVs from a variety of manufacturers are set to debut this spring. Vestel, one of the top three European TV manufacturers, has announced a multi-year, multi-country and multi-million-unit agreement, featuring chipsets from MediaTek. The first sets will be available under the Vestel, Daewoo, Regal, Hitachi, Telefunken and JVC brands. The agreement was first announced at the IFA consumer electronics event in Germany last August. “At Xperi, we have built a platform that can deliver better viewer engagement with an unbiased, content-first user experience, where Live Hybrid TV and streaming services fully integrate in a personalized way that makes it easy to find, watch and enjoy content across [...]

06 Jan 2023

Roku

Roku Announces First Smart TVs Designed and Made by the Company Roku has spent eight years of working with partners to produce HDTVs powered by its streaming tech. Now the company is rolling into the category itself with the first line of exclusively Roku-branded smart TVs. Scheduled to be available in the spring of 2023, the Roku Select and Roku Plus Series TVs will be available in 11 models ranging from 24- to 75-inch screen sizes, with retail prices starting at $119 and going up to $999. The company declined to disclose which manufacturing partner or partners it has enlisted to supply the Roku-branded TVs. Roku said it is not producing the units with any of its existing brand license [...]