High Efficiency Video Coding – HEVC – made plenty of news at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Broadcom, ViXS,Rovi, Allegro DVT, Vanguard Video and perhaps other companies made news or exhibited HEVC products.
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“Making an appearance at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Plair is a small dongle that plugs into a free HDMI port on your TV and receives video over Wi-Fi from for Android, iOS, OS X and Windows.
Along with local content stored on your mobile device or computer, you can watch shows and online videos from partner channels on plair.com/channels and in the channels area on the mobile apps.”
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HDTVs and home theater gear are huge at the Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s what we expect to see on the show floor this year.
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“Sony Corp. will show off a wide range of new products at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show, but one that will stay under wraps could be its riskiest: a multichannel TV service to rival cable.
The Japanese conglomerate is in active negotiations with at least two major content companies about licensing their channels for a package that could roll out in the U.S. later this year, according to sources.”
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Apps have made a big impression on smartphones and tablets so it is hardly surprising that the Consumer Electronics (CE) industry has used them as their preferred method to lead consumers to new entertainment and information services via connected TV devices. Nor is it a surprise that they should look to replicate, in some form, the third-party apps developer programmes seen in the mobile industry. What remains to be seen is whether people embrace the TV widget/icon as a route to online content and what role there is for this navigation model on Pay TV.
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“Connected TV was front and center at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month: Panasonic, LG, and Sharp all shone spotlights on Internet-enabled televisions, along with just about every other TV manufacturer. MySpace even decided to resurrect itself at CES as a social-TV experience. With all of the articles, press events, parties, celebrity sightings and sheer volume of tech TV news, the full picture of “connected TV” could be easy to miss.”
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Connected TV was front and center at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month: Panasonic, LG, and Sharp all shone spotlights on Internet-enabled televisions, along with just about every oth…
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The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon, a new marketing partnership to launch an upcoming ad blitz, and some splashy new hardware announcements from big consumer electronics brands including Samsung.
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From day one, internet connected televisions is constantly making a buzz at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, and as Google moves and Apple rumors have attracted most internet TV hoopla, on Yahoo has been busy moving units, announced new consumer and advertiser offerings for its Connected TV platform, adding Sony’s Bravia TVs to the list of sets that include the technology, racking up 8 million widget TVs in the market and over a million active users every month.
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Smart TVs were plentiful at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, and Google TV appeared in a number of them, including models from LG and Sony.
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