Smart TV

Samsung Hits The Accelerator On Streaming Content At SDC 2019

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV / November 11, 2019

In perhaps Samsung’s boldest public acknowledgment yet that video content is an essential element in its entertainment strategy, the company announced at the Samsung Developer Conference that it would open its smart TV platform, Tizen, to third-party manufacturers. Sang Kim, Samsung’s SmartTV Product VP, noted that Samsung customers have cumulatively watched 1 billion hours of …

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Amazon Makes Big Splash At IFA With New Fire TV Cube, Smart TVs And European Expansion

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV, Uncategorized / September 23, 2019

IFA, Europe’s annual consumer electronics extravaganza, is taking place this week in Berlin. The show’s interesting for me as I view it as the last peek at consumer electronics we will see before the vaunted “holiday” selling season in the western world. While my colleague Mark Vena is in attendance (stay tuned for his takeaways), …

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Amazon Fire TV A Star Of Prime Day Sales

By / Personal Computing, Research, Smart TV / August 6, 2019

Unless you were living under a rock, you know that Amazon Prime Day, literally the biggest blow out shopping event only rivaling the holidays, took place last week. Amazon created Prime Day out of thin air and, for itself and partners, and it has brought much of the industry out of its summer shopping doldrums. …

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Apple Boosts Its Place In The Smart Home With A New Services Strategy

By / Connected Home, Smart TV, Uncategorized / April 11, 2019

At an Apple  special event on Monday, Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, meticulously laid out the company’s vision and strategy, challenging consumers to view and think about Apple in a fundamentally different manner. Monday’s presentation was fascinating as it was the only Apple announcement in the company’s history that was entirely devoid of any physical hardware.  As Apple’s hardware sales …

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Even More Smart Home Products For The Holiday Season

By / Connected Home, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV / December 6, 2018

With about a month left before Christmas, I’d like to provide another round of great tech products worth consideration when doing your holiday shopping. In my opinion, you can’t go wrong with any of these unique, affordable products. TCL 6 Series 65” Smart TV (Model 65R617) stands out in a crowded market Over the past …

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IFA 2018: 5 Big Consumer Technology Reveals

By / Connected Home, Personal Computing, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV, Smartphone / September 20, 2018

The IFA technology showcase in Berlin last week was a sprawling affair, attracting over 230,000 consumers, journalists, and industry pundits from all over the world. Historically it has been geared towards European consumers, but due to the conference’s late August timing, more and more companies are using it as a platform to announce new products …

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Samsung Builds A Wall And Expands Intelligent Home Footprint At CES 2018

By / Connected Home, Internet of Things IoT, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV / February 6, 2018

Samsung CES 2018 Last week, I and several other members of the Moor Insights & Strategy team attended CES 2018 in Las Vegas. One of the companies I was most looking forward to hearing from was Samsung, particularly in the realm of IoT and the smart home sector. Samsung is the 800lb gorilla and owns …

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NVIDIA Doubles Down On Automotive And Cloud Gaming, Adds Smart Home Capability At CES 2017

By / CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Gaming, Internet of Things IoT, IoT Hardware, Personal Computing, Public cloud, Semiconductor, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV / February 6, 2017

At this year’s CES 2017, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang presented in the CES opening keynote his vision for the company’s future to the audience, explaining where he believes the company will succeed in the future. I also liked that Huang simplified AI and graphics so more could understand it. Of the areas where NVIDIA participates …

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Industry Analyst Perspectives On The Apple WWDC 2016 Keynote

By / Connected Home, Personal Cloud, Personal Computer, Personal Computing, Smart TV, Smartphone, Social Media, Tablet, Wearables / July 5, 2016

(Photo credit: Patrick Moorhead) I was in-person and live at Apple’s WWDC keynote in San Francisco. The following are my quick takeaways from the event. Watch and watchOS: Apple is focusing on exactly what they should be with watchOS, and that’s speed, ease of use and upping the ante in health and fitness. With the first …

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What Apple *Should* Talk About At WWDC

By / Connected Home, Personal Cloud, Personal Computer, Personal Computing, Smart TV, Smartphone, Social Media, Tablet, Wearables / July 5, 2016

Tomorrow, I leave for San Francisco to attend WWDC. You have probably seen 50 articles predicting what Apple will announce at WWDC. What I’d like to talk about is what I think Apple should announce or discuss at the conference. Image credit: Apple Improve and expand Siri Siri was first out with a mobile agent, but Microsoft Cortana, Google Voice/Now/On …

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Apple TV: What Features Should It Have?

By / Internet of Things IoT, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV / September 18, 2015

Over the past 25 years, I have personally used no less than 25 DMAs (digital media adapters) or some sort of digital electronics connected to or inside my TVs. I have used 10 of the 25 in the last five years as the experience, content and technology is slowly but surely improving. The first 15 …

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Google And Nvidia Shield Kick Off The Latest Fight For Cord-Cutting Living Room Electronics

By / Gaming, Personal Computing, Semiconductor, Smart TV / May 27, 2016

I’ve been connecting digital devices to my TVs for over 25 years now and outside of a few devices, interactivity has been a “less than perfect” experience. Devices either did too little, did too much, were hard to use and setup, didn’t have the right content or just didn’t have staying power to be relied …

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NVIDIA SHIELD: What You May Not Understand About The New 4K Streamer

By / Gaming, Personal Computing, Smart TV / May 27, 2016

In the consumer space, NVIDIA has dedicated much of the last four years building up their gaming footprint by investing to improve the overall gaming experience, wherever the gamer wants to game. NVIDIA is currently delivering leadership products and technologies in gaming tablets, handheld gaming, the highest-end gaming PCs and cloud gaming. The gaming console eluded NVIDIA …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Wireless Technologies for Home Automation

By / Research, Research Papers, Smart Home Automation, Smart TV, Smartphone, Tablet, Wireless / May 1, 2020

Simply put, there are too many choices for today’s low-end mainstream1 and DIY2 consumer when it comes to connecting the new breed of Home Automation (HA) equipment. With the plethora of thermostats, lights, locks and consumer friendly HA devices hitting the market from Nest, Philips, Belkin, Honeywell, Insteon, Schlage and others, it has become increasingly difficult …

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Why Is Intel Investing In Big Media?

By / Semiconductor, Smart TV / May 27, 2016

Since Intel INTC +0.84%’s Erik Huggers got on stage at D’s Dive Into Media announcing details of their media strategy, there has been a lot of conversation on why Intel is doing it and if they will succeed. Some of it has been high valueconversation, some it is a bit uninformed. It’s easy to criticize Intel if you consider Intel’s ViiV, …

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Intel Set-Top Box Camera Controversy: Much Ado About Nothing

By / Semiconductor, Smart TV / May 27, 2016

Last Tuesday, Erik Huggers, Intel‘s corporate vice president of Intel Media,  announced at D:Dive Into Media that Intel is building a set top box and pay TV service that includes live TV.  Huggers talked about the service which will most likely include friendlier bundling and also about the living-room device itself, which will operate more like a 21st century …

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Why do Products like the Google Nexus Q Launch?

By / Personal Cloud, Smart TV / November 21, 2013

At Google’s I/O developer conference in June, Google boldly announced the Nexus Q, a $299 streaming music sphere.  Last week, Google stopped selling the Nexus Q and cancelled all consumer pre-orders, saying buyers would get the unit for free.  It appeared obvious to just about everyone except Google that the Nexus Q value proposition was incredibly weak.  …

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Human-Computer Interface Transitions will Continue to Drive Market Changes

By / Human Computer Interface, Personal Computing, Smart TV, Smartphone, Tablet, Ultrabook / September 28, 2015

As a former executive and product manager for end consumer products and technologies, I have planned and conducted extensive primary research on Human-Computer Interfaces (HCI) or Human Machine Interface (HMI). A lot of this research was for the industrial design of consumer products and their mice, keyboards, and even buttons. I conducted other research for …

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Future iPads Will Cannibalize TVs

By / Smart TV, Tablet / November 21, 2013

As ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out, we know absolutely “nothing” about the iPad 3 right now.  While pontificating about future Apple products is a lot of fun, drives many page views and makes web site editors very happy, it’s  just a pontification factory.  At some point in the near future, the iPad will have a better display and will be lighter than its …

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