Turn off your telly if you use Alexa
You could end up ordering something you don’t want
Amazon’s Alexa seems to have a bit of problem playing nice with televisions.
8K broadcasts of the Olympics expected
Hi-res boredom other than the crowd shots
It looks like Japanese who have 8K tellies in time for the Rio Olympics will actually have something to watch in August.
Cable dying
Kids of today switch it off
The glory days of cable and satellite telly is slowly drawing to a close, according to a new survey.
LG did better than expected
But earnings plunged 37 per cent
Telly maker LG saw its third-quarter operating earnings fall nearly 37 per cent but is patting itself on the back because things could have been a lot worse.
8K will rule the world by next Tuesday
It must be true an analyst said it
Analysts have a habit of getting ahead of themselves, but this report is a dandy. HIS claims that 8K will be with us soon thanks to the fact that it will be used for the broadcasting of the Japanese 2020 Olympics.
Hon Hai gets in at the Sharp end
Cunning plan to save flat panels
The troubled telly maker Sharp is in talks with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn, for a tie-up in its struggling flat-panel display business.
Cloud based 4K years away says Nvidia
Can't get the wood
Anyone expecting 4K streaming off the cloud any time soon will be plumb out of luck according to Nvidia's CEO.
Sharp not flogging overseas factories
Mexican standoff
Sharp said it is not planning to flog any of its overseas factories after the dark satanic rumour mill manufactured a hell on earth yarn that it planned to sell its TV manufacturing plant in Mexico next year.