"smart TV" articles
More Q&A with a reporter, this time covering smart TVs and connected game consoles:
What are your estimates for the total worldwide sales for all major consoles?
Kurt: We expect sales of the major consoles to remain fairly steady over a five-year period – from 40.7 million units in 2011 to 45.1 million units in 2015.
Do you have stats on the total adoption of XBLA, PSN and Wii network worldwide (or in the US)?
Kurt: The last Xbox LIVE subscriber count I...
Viodi View has a really good interview with David Foote, the CTO of Hitachi Communications Technologies America. We appreciate them being there, and the interview struck me as one key component in the "smart TV" space that doesn't get talked about enough. Operators will want to have a very flexible platform to which applications developers can create features and easily port them onto existing CPE and other consumer electronics in the home is essential,...
A quick scan of Best Buy’s Website reveals 333 flat-panel TVs available. Of those, 123 are considered Smart TVs (BB’s new term for Internet-connectable). So, 37% of their available TVs are “Smart.” Our forecast for 2011 is that 42% of all flat-panel TV sales will be Internet-connectable. Pretty good validation.
The connected TV is on the verge of a lot of great things, according to speakers at this week's CONNECTIONS, a conference series put on by Parks Associates.
Here's what we took away from some of the Connections panels.
1. The cloud is coming home.
The suggestion came up that a box could send video traffic around the home network, using the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard."The problem today is that the platforms don't really have the memory space, and...
If you give a Heather an Apple TV, she is going to realize her 9-year-old, 300-pound high definition Toshiba TV doesn’t have an HDMI input. When she discovers her 30-inch deep HDTV doesn’t have an HDMI connection, she’ll go to Best Buy and purchase a Samsung flat panel LCD TV.
When she marvels at the picture quality on the shiny new LCD TV, she’s reminded that she probably shouldn’t have incurred the expense. She quickly rationalizes the need to upgrade the family TV....
The much anticipated 3D video streaming service from Samsung has been given a green light, back home, in South Korea. This service will bring a partnership with DreamWorks Animation, and will breathe new life into 3DTV viewing.
Uncertain as to what content will be released, and when, most likely movie trailers, children's educational films, and music videos, will be streaming first in the 3D application, via Samsung’s Smart TV platform. On the downside, the U.S. and Europe will...
Samsung this week showed off a prototype TV set that uses a printed 19-inch AMOLED panel. The screen's resolution is 960x540, and it has a resolution of 58ppi, while brightness is set at 200cd/m2. Samsung didn't give an estimated production date, saying only that the technology is still being developed.
The TV on display was capable of showing 16.77 million colors with an eight-bit color scale and covered 62 percent of the color gamut. The printed AMOLED technology is making...
After several missteps into the living room, Intel seems to have made significant progress in working with service providers and their CPE vendors. There have been announcements with Technicolor, Telecom Italia , and Liberty Global/UPC this year. Now, Reuters is reporting that Intel and Chunghwa Telecom are in discussions for a "smart TV initiative.
