UX (User Experience, User Interface, EPG) News

Plex partners with Technicolor on HDR for AVOD
Jan 8, 2025 – Plex has teamed up with Advanced HDR by Technicolor to enhance the visual quality of its ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services, ensuring a premium viewing experience for its audience.
News categories: Advanced HDR by Technicolor, Plex, Rick Dumont, CES2025, Digital TV, Streaming, UX, Worldwide

XREAL announces AR collaborations at CES 2025
Jan 8, 2025 – At CES, XREAL has announced augmented reality (AR) collaborations with BMW, Google, Qualcomm, Bose, T-Mobile, Mawari and more. With BMW, XREAL will demo 3D entertainment for passengers.
News categories: XREAL, Chi Xu, Luis Ramirez, John Saw, Nick Smith, Automotive, CES2025, Digital TV, Metaverse, Semiconductor, Worldwide

15 million no-display AI smart glasses expected to ship in 2030
Jan 8, 2025 – Meta's Ray-Ban glasses have spurred interest in AR. ABI Research now forecasts no-display smart glasses shipments will grow from 679,004 in 2024 to 15 million in 2030 – a CAGR of almost 68%.
News categories: ABI Research, Matilda Beinat, Market Research, Metaverse, Worldwide

Dolby brings Dolby Vision HDR to cars
Jan 7, 2025 – At CES 2025, Dolby will showcase to guests the next frontier of in-car entertainment with a demo of the world's first vehicle to support Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, Li Auto's Li MEGA.
News categories: Dolby, Li Auto, John Couling, Automotive, CES2025, Digital TV, UX, Worldwide

MediaTek unveils AI-powered picture quality enhancement technologies
Jan 7, 2025 – At CES, MediaTek has unveiled MiraVision Pro for smart TVs and other large displays. Its Pentonic 800 for Smart TVs is the first chipset to feature the AI-powered picture quality enhancement suite.
News categories: MediaTek, Hisense, CES2025, Digital TV, Semiconductor, Smart TV, UX, Worldwide

Sony's RIDEVU in-car entertainment to feature IMAX Enhanced films
Jan 7, 2025 – Sony Pictures, IMAX, Mercedes-Benz and DTS have announced that RIDEVU, SPE's in-car entertainment service, will make IMAX Enhanced movies from Sony's library available in vehicles later this year.
News categories: Mercedes-Benz, Sony Pictures, IMAX, Xperi, Magnus Östberg, Pete Wood, Vikram Arumilli, Bill Neighbors, Automotive, CES2025, Digital TV, Streaming, USA, UX

24i and STRONG power m:tel Banja Luka IPTV/OTT service
Jan 7, 2025 – 24i and STRONG have announced that m:tel Banja Luka has successfully launched ON TV, an IPTV and OTT service powered by 24i's pay TV solution and STRONG's Android TV Operator Tier set-top boxes.
News categories: 24i, STRONG, m:tel, Sebastian Braun, Veka Radonjić, Rastko Pavlović, Android TV, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, UX

New NEXTGEN TV receivers, expanded services launch at CES 2025
Jan 6, 2025 – New ATSC 3.0 receivers and enhanced broadcast services will launch this year, with RCA launching TV sets, and new accessory receivers coming from ADTH, MyVelo, Stavix, Vbox, Zapperbox, and Zinwell.
News categories: ATSC, Madeleine Noland, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart TV, UX

Garmin and Qualcomm reveal next-gen digital cockpit solution
Jan 6, 2025 – Garmin and Qualcomm have announced a next-gen digital cockpit solution, delivering entertainment experiences across all vehicle displays as part of a unified software-defined vehicle architecture.
News categories: Garmin, Qualcomm, Matt Munn, Nakul Duggal, Automotive, CES2025, UX, Worldwide