NEW YORK, Mar. 22, (Korea Bizwire) — American consumers’ status as a binge watching, streaming, multitasking nation enters 2017 with strong momentum according to Deloitte’s 11th “Digital Democracy Survey.” With 84 percent of Americans on social networks – social media has evolved well beyond “socializing” and is being used to discover new content, get news [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics announced Thursday the launch of a new OLED TV series to be added to its “Signature” lineup of household appliances. The new LG Signature 4K OLED W series boasts an OLED panel that is only 4 millimeters thick. The “W” stands for wallpaper, and refers to the TV’s new [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey by the Korea Communications Commission revealed the growing importance of smartphones, with 55.5 percent of 7,385 respondents (aged 13 and above) considering the device to be an “indispensable medium”, far surpassing those who chose TV (38.6 percent) as their answer. The gap between the two devices [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey released by Deloitte today confirms American consumers’ dependence on mobile phones continues to rise as the platform of choice for work, home and self across an increasing range of tasks. Consumers now check their smartphone more than 9 billion times per day and increasingly do so while [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Local telecommunications giant KT launched Tuesday a 360-degree GiGA VR Service for its Olleh TV IPTV service, allowing customers to enjoy VR content on a television without using a VR device. According KT, the service is offered for select VOD programs in full HD, for which viewers can use [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of large screen TVs have increased over the past two years, apparently from a price drop that made them affordable to a bigger consumer base, industry data showed Wednesday. According to leading retailer E-mart, the proportion of 60-inch or larger flat TVs sold among total TV sales this [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics revealed its ‘Serif TV DecoTem Project’ Tuesday, in which professional designers came up with various home decor items (hence DecoTem) that could pair well with the company’s Serif TV. Samsung’s Serif TV, released in 2015, was designed by the famous Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec brothers, and was [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – With an increasing number of Koreans consuming video content via mobile devices, major Korean broadcasters are expanding their offerings to mobile broadcasting. SBS, MBC, and tvN recently launched mobile content brands Mobidic, MBig TV, and tvNgo, with stiff competition between broadcasters to attract mobile-friendly consumers. TvNgo has been the [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics unveiled Thursday a new television called the Mosquito Away TV, targeting 1.2 billion Indian consumers. The Mosquito Away TV repels mosquitos by emitting ultrasonic waves that mosquitos are known to find intolerable. LG took into account India’s concerns over mosquito-related diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 85 percent of South Korean people aged 60 or older watch TV every day, doing so almost twice as much as people aged less than 20, according to a survey released Thursday by a state-run think tank. The survey, conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute, [...]