SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - Global TV shipments fell at the fastest clip insix years in the second quarter of the year, hit by the sluggish world economy and weaker currencies of emerging countries, industry data showed Sunday. Global TV sales stood at 48 million units in the April-June period, down 8percent from the same period a year earlier, according to the data by industry tracker IHS Technology. It [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics announced on October 28 that it would drop its Plasma Display Panel(PDP) business, as rising popularity of LCD and OLED products, mainstay in global display market, makes the business of plasma TVs increasingly unviable. The main reason for LG Electronics to discontinue the production of plasma TVs [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today announced plans to release Tizen-based Samsung TV SDK, marking the industry’s first Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows developers to build applications for the Tizen-based TV. Samsung’s Tizen-based TV SDK Beta will be available early July following the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A study shows that almost one out of two people use a smartphone and watch TV at the same time. According to a report “Simultaneous Media Use While TV Watching” by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, which surveyed 6,240 family members over age of 13 in [...]
SANTA CLARA, California, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Expanding its leadership in the Smart Home ecosystem, Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced a collaboration with SK Broadband, who has launched B TV Smart, an IPTV set-top-box with Google services in the Korean market. B TV Smart is powered by Marvell’s ARMADA® 1500 Plus (88DE3108) system-on-chip (SoC) platform, [...]