Digital TV News: Ematic

Sky introduces Sky Glass Gen 2
Feb 11, 2025 – Sky has unveiled its new Sky Glass TV, with a brighter 4K HDR screen and seven-speaker Dolby Atmos sound. Sky Glass Gen 2 runs on the Sky OS platform, the new name for Entertainment OS in the UK.
News categories: Sky, Fraser Stirling, Digital TV, Smart TV, Streaming, TV OS, UK

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

Agile Content powers Linkem My Ti-Vi streaming service in Italy
Nov 26, 2024 – Agile Content has announced that it is providing the end-to-end TVaaS (TV-as-a-Service) platform that powers Tiscali's Linkem My Ti-Vi on-demand streaming service in Italy.
News categories: Agile Content, Linkem, Koldo Unanue, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Italy, Set Top Box, Streaming, UX

Stingray and Xperi bring eight video channels to BMW in-car screens
Oct 21, 2024 – Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) has launched eight new video channels on the DTS AutoStage Video Service Powered by TiVo, offering an array of content to vehicles in the portfolio of the BMW Group.
News categories: Stingray, Xperi, Rick Bergan, Scott Maddux, Automotive, Digital TV, Streaming, Worldwide

California approves 'click or call to cancel' subscriptions bill
Sep 24, 2024 – California has approved rules allowing consumers to easily click or call to cancel subscriptions, ensuring Californians can cancel unwanted automatic renewals just as easily as they signed up.
News categories: Consumer Federation of California, Robert Herrell, Digital TV, Regulation, USA

Gracenote augments metadata with related facts to drive engagement
Sep 4, 2024 – Gracenote has launched Gracenote Watch Prompts, a dataset that equips global video platforms and services with interesting facts about TV programs and movies to influence consumer viewing decisions.
News categories: Gracenote, Trent Wheeler, Big Data, Digital TV, IBCShow, UX, Worldwide

Panasonic returns to the US with new Fire TV televisions
Sep 4, 2024 – Panasonic has announced its return to the US TV market. The new line-up includes OLED (Z95A and Z85A) and Mini-LED (W95A) TVs ranging from 55 to 85 inches. The new smart TVs have Fire TV built in.
News categories: Panasonic, Amazon, Yasunari Anan, Daniel Rausch, Digital TV, Smart TV, TV OS, USA

DSCC projects beginning of LCD shortage
Sep 3, 2024 – Capacity additions put in place during the pandemic have resulted in oversupply in the display industry that continues in 2024, but that oversupply will turn to a shortage, according to DSCC.
News categories: DSCC, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV, Worldwide

Return Entertainment and Aethir enhance cloud gaming on smart TVs
Aug 21, 2024 – Return Entertainment and Aethir have announced a solution to enhance cloud gaming on smart TVs. Return Entertainment is using Aethir's decentralized GPU cloud infrastructure to power its games.
News categories: Return Entertainment, Aethir, Vesa Jutila, Paul Thind, Digital TV, Gaming, Semiconductor, Smart TV