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Global Chipset Shortage is Now Hitting Smart TV Price Tags!
With the continuing global chipset shortage, it’s something that’s certainly being very keenly felt in the wallets (or purses) by those looking to buy a new processor, graphics card, or even just a next-gen console at the moment. With the issue expected to impact other hardware in the near future…
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LG Smart TVs to Get Native Google Stadia Cloud Gaming
LG Electronics (LG) has announced a planned partnership with Google to bring Stadia to its latest webOS smart TVs in the second half of this year. After Stadia comes to Google TV, LG will be the first TV manufacturer to natively support Stadia gameplay via webOS. LG is demonstrating its…
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Nvidia Shield TV 2019 Edition Review – New and Improved!
I’ve been a long time fan and pretty vocal supporter of the Nvidia Shield range over the years. Actually, that’s true of a few of us here at eTeknix! I loved the Shield Portable from six years ago and maybe loved it a little too much. It got used as…
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Samsung’s 2019 Smart TVs Will Have Remote Access Feature
Control Your PC and Devices via a Samsung TV With CES only a few days away, Samsung is announcing a new feature which they will be showcasing in their booth. This is a new feature they are calling “Remote Access” and it will be available on their 2019 Smart TV…
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Logitech Launches K600 Keyboard for Smart TVs and HTPC
Keyboard for the Living Room With smart TVs and HTPCs enjoying healthy popularity, it only makes sense for peripheral makers such as Logitech to tailor products specifically for these. Which is why they are launching the new K600 keyboard, a compact input device with built-in navigation controls. A directional pad…
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Vizio Smart TVs May Prompt Owners To Sue Manufacturer
Vizio Smart TVs May Prompt Owners To Sue Manufacturer Vizio is not one of the better-known TV brands in the UK or Europe. In America though, they are one of the more significant manufacturers of Smart TVs. It seems, however, that a legal case from 2015 is rearing its head…
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Nvidia Shield Android TV Review
Introduction The Nvidia Shield TV is here at last, the much-anticipated successor to the already feature packed and exciting line of Android-powered Nvidia gaming devices. The original Shield is a great little hand-held, and we’ve tested it extensively since it was released, pushing the limits of what can be done…
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DMCA Exception Makes Smart TV Hacking Legal
Every three years, the US Copyright Office listens to petitions to make revisions and exemptions to the anti-circumvention protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The Software Freedom Conservancy used the most recent review as an opportunity to make jailbreaking smart TVs legal under the DMCA, an exemption which,…
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Arion Bluetooth Mini Keyboard with Speakerphone Review
Introduction Touch screen devices can be a pain to type on, although admittedly the issue isn’t as bad as it used to be as many of us have had a good few years practice now and screens, as well as keyboard applications, have improved greatly over the years. Then you’ve…
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Xiaomi Enters Guinness World Record for Selling 2.11 Million Phones in a Day
Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics company and world’s 3rd largest smartphone distributor, appears to have recently set a new Guinness World Record in terms of smartphone selling. The company managed to sell 2.11 million phones during a 24h period. Xiaomi also appears to have made $335 million worth of revenue from…
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Sony Unveils World’s Thinnest 4K LCD TV at Just 4.9mm Thick
Sony has revealed its new line of Bravia televisions – a broad mix of 1080p and 4K models, some of which were previewed at CES 2015 – the highlight of which is the X9000C, a 4K TV with a thickness of just 4.9mm, making it thinner than most smartphones. The…
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Xiaomi Launches 40-Inch Android-Powered Smart TV for Only $320
Rising Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has launched a new Android-powered 40-inch smart TV at a very affordable price. The Xiaomi Mi TV 2 is available for the bargain price of $320, and boasts a 1080p Sharp LED display with 5000:1 contrast ratio, Cortex-A9 quad-core 1.45GHz CPU, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB…
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Samsung TVs Inserting Ads into Third-Party Movies and Shows
Reports have emerged that Samsung Smart TVs have started interrupting third-party content – such as film or television streamed to the television from a computer – to insert Pepsi adverts. Many disgruntled users have been posting the same complaint on the r/plex subreddit, Plex being the Samsung Smart TV media…
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Tizen OS Will Power Samsung’s Smart TVs This Year
Samsung Electronics announced that all of their Smart TVs in 2015 will run on a new platform built around the Tizen operating system. Tizen is a standardized open-source platform that enables flexibility with even more content and devices and one that allows developers to easily create compatible content. This is…
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Windows Capable Intel Bay Trail HDMI TV Stick Coming Soon
TV sticks that convert any TV into an Android powered Smart TV are no strange thing these days. We’ve got everything from Chromecast technology to whole android games consoles that run from a single HDMI socket; now it looks like Windows is the new benchmark. A company has begun manufacturing…
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