Devices
Report: 4K TV Market to be Worth $380 Billion by 2025 (TVB Europe)
The global 4K TV market is expected to reach $380.9 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The report stated that the evolving nature of the consumer... More
Disney Joining 4K Fray in August with ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ (HMM)
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment July 11 officially announced its first 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray title will be Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which arrives Aug. 22 on ... More
U.K. DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales Trump Digital (HMM)
Sales of digital movies and TV shows in the United Kingdom are not enough to stop burgeoning consumer use of subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime ... More
Microsoft to Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (Reuters)
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new service that allows customers to use its cloud technology on their own servers, part of the company's efforts to refocus its product line to comp... More
Oracle, MIT Study: Cloud Frees Up Companies to Focus on What’s Important
The cloud is freeing business leaders up to focus on what’s most important in running their companies, Oracle said July 6 while announcing the findings of a new study it conducte... More
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy 2’ Disney’s First 4K Blu-ray. But How Good Will It Look? (Forbes)
After weeks of feverish speculation among AV fans after some retailers started listing it for pre-order, director James Gunn has finally confirmed that Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.... More
Dell EMC Release Several New VDI Solutions (Storage Review)
Today Dell EMC introduced several new desktop virtualization solutions aimed at making it easier for customers to deploy, configure, and manage their VDI environments. The solution... More
Amazon Offering $10 Credit to Get Prime Customers to Stream Videos (Fierce Cable)
For its Prime customers who don’t dip into the streaming video library, Amazon has an offer to incentivize them to check it out. The company is offering a $10 credit to use on... More
IBM Uses AI to Serve Up Wimbledon Highlights (CNET)
Too busy to spend hours watching Wimbledon champ Andy Murray try to win back-to-back titles against the likes of past winners Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic? IBM ... More
Why Dolby Atmos is About to Make Your TV Better Than Ever (Stuff.tv)
A good movie experience comes down to two things – great pictures and awesome sound. With 4K and HDR handling the former pretty darn well, it's down to 3D audio formats such as D... More
Amazon’s New Video Device, Echo Show, is Getting Publisher Attention (Digiday)
The Amazon Echo Show, the $230 audio and video device launched in early May, is years away from being a niche product. But large digital publishers are already crowding onto its sm... More
No Single Device Will Have as Much Impact as the iPhone in the Next 10 Years (Recode)
Today is the tenth anniversary of the iPhone going on sale, so there’s lots of navel-gazing about the impact the iPhone has had on the industry — and pretty much everything. I�... More
One Huge Way the 4K HDR Xbox One X Benefits Gaming on Any TV (4K)
The Xbox One X has received major branding as THE console to get if you want to get your hands on serious 4K gamming chops with HDR and VR thrown in as extras for any 4K TV worth i... More
Google Unveils an AI Investment Fund. It’s Betting on an App Store for Algorithms (Wired)
Google just placed yet another bet on the idea that artificial intelligence will remake the world—and throw off wild profits. The company disclosed today that it has created a... More
At Cannes, the Great Gusher of Content Comes With Warning Signs (NYT)
The great geyser of our times, of course, is the hand-held connectivity that Steve Jobs tapped with his iPhone, and that Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat now so powerfully re... More
Facebook to Launch App for Influencers to Manage Content (Variety)
Facebook will launch an app later this year that will provide influencers on its platform the ability to better manage content on its platform. The announcement was made Friday at ... More
Time Warner Strikes $100 Million Content Deal with Snap (THR)
Time Warner has struck a $100 million content deal with Snapchat's parent company to make shows exclusively for the app, a source familiar with the deal confirmed to The Hollywood ... More
Dolby Access is Going to Change the Way You Hear Your Xbox One Games (TechRadar)
Dolby Access might be the best-kept secret of E3 2017. Actually, that distinction belongs to Metroid Prime 4, but nevertheless, it’s a nifty app targeted specifically at Xbox One... More
Slack Launches Highlights to Surface the Top Messages You Missed (CNBC)
Slack's corporate chat service is taking a page out of the Facebook and Twitter playbooks and adopting an algorithmic approach to showing messages. The start-up, which is valued... More
Twitter Launches its Biggest iOS Redesign in Years (Engadget)
Ever since Twitter decided it was more of a place to find out what's going on in the world rather than just another social network, it's made quite a few changes. It invested more ... More
