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This week, Realtek sued rival MediaTek in Northern California federal court, accusing it of conspiring against it with a patent holder in a bid to drive Realtek out of business. Reuters reports that Realtek asserts that MediaTek intends to monopolize the markets of smart TVs and set-top-boxes and asks the court to protect itself from the ongoing injury and the market from unfair competition practices. It is not a secret that various patent assertion entities (PAE), a juridical term for patent hoarders, acquire patents and then sue different designers for royalties. In 2019, MediaTek entered into a patent license agreement with Future Link and its owner IPValue to license some of the patents issued initially to NXP Semiconductor and Philips. While this would be a...
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LG’s Latest Flex-OLED Display: Curved for Gaming, Flat for TV
Ever since LG displayed its first rollable OLED TV at CES 2019, and perhaps even before then, the vision of these flexible displays was that they could encompass any...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/4/2021
The TCL Plex Smartphone Hands-On: Dedicated Low-Light Camera for Video
As one of the world’s largest TV manufacturers, with its hands in a lot of other things, TCL is a fairly common name among certain regions of the world...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/5/2019
Honor Set to Enter TV Market with New Honghu 8K CPU
Not being shy to take some gambles, this one appears to be its biggest yet: Honor is going to be developing both TVs and display scalers for the consumer...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/30/2019
CES 2019: LG Announces Signature OLED TV R - A Rollable TV
Today at LG's CES press event, one of the more intriguing announcements was the fact that LG is bringing its rollable OLED TV technology as an actual product later...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/7/2019
Samsung’s One Invisible Connection: 75 Gbps and 230W in a Ultra Thin Cable
This perhaps isn’t news, but there was something super amazing that I saw on the show floor at IFA this year that I wanted to write about. Despite writing...
30 by Ian Cutress on 9/13/2018
AUO to Ship 8K UHD TV Panels in Coming Months
AU Optronics this week has announced plans to start shipments of 8K panels for large UHDTVs in the first half of 2018. The panels will enable TV manufacturers to...
33 by Anton Shilov on 2/23/2018
ATSC Releases ATSC 3.0 Digital TV Standards Suite: Over-The-Air Meets Over-The-Top
LAS VEGAS, NV — At a formal commemoration at CES 2018, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), industry standards consortium for digital television, announced the release of ATSC 3.0...
25 by Nate Oh on 1/12/2018
Toshiba Sells 95% of Its TV Business Unit to Hisense
Toshiba on Wednesday announced plans to sell 95% stake in its TV business unit to Hisense Electric for approximately $114 million. The transaction will strengthen Hisense’s positions as the...
19 by Anton Shilov on 11/16/2017
Samsung CES 2017 Event Live Blog
We're here at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center covering Samsung's announcements for CES 2017.
26 by Joshua Ho & Billy Tallis on 1/4/2017
Lattice and MediaTek to Collaborate On Reference Smartphones For SuperMHL over USB-C
Lattice Semiconductor and MediaTek have joined forces to create reference smartphones with 4K video outputs using USB Type-C connectors and cables. The outputs will use the superMHL technology and...
10 by Anton Shilov on 3/15/2016
Hisense at CES: Affordable and Feature-Packed 4K TVs for HTPCs
We usually don't cover televisions in detail here at AnandTech. However, the current flux in the market when it comes to 4K displays for HTPCs made CES 2016 an...
18 by Ganesh T S on 1/11/2016
Apple Announces The New Apple TV
Along with new iPhones and new iPads, today's Apple event came with the launch of the long rumored update to Apple TV. It's almost incorrect to call this an...
38 by Brandon Chester on 9/9/2015
Lattice Announces First superMHL Chips: Sil8630 & Sil9396
Earlier this year at CES, the MHL Consortium announced the latest version of the Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) standard, superMHL. The latest iteration on MHL, superMHL was introduced to...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/3/2015
4K Displays for HTPCs: A Consumer Checklist
Getting a HTPC setup right for the 4K era has become a very confusing exercise for the consumers. We tried to clarify some aspects in our Future-proofing HTPCs for...
68 by Ganesh T S on 6/4/2015
The NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Review: A Premium 4K Set Top Box
The battle for the living room is heating up with forays from multiple vendors. As the cord-cutting trend gains momentum, the time seems to be right for disruption. Coinciding...
168 by Ganesh T S on 5/28/2015
MHL Consortium Announces superMHL: New Standard & New Cable To Drive 8K TV
When the Mobile High-Definition Link (MHL) was introduced in 2010, it was created to solve a simple but none the less daunting problem: how to get power in and...
68 by Ryan Smith on 1/6/2015
Apple TV 2013 (A1469) Short Review: Analysis of a New A5
The Apple TV is an incredibly relevant device today. It’s Apple’s attempt to augment the Netflixes and Hulu Pluses of the world with an on-demand cable TV alternative. Other...
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/15/2013
Samsung's TV Discovery Service Enables TV to Smartphone/Tablet Streaming
I'm not entirely sure I understand the point of MWC this year if everyone is going to pre-empt the show with announcements of their own (or in the case...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2013
Anand's Thoughts on Intel's TV Initiative
Earlier this week Intel announced what we'd heard rumors of in months past, that it would be creating an IPTV service along with a custom software and hardware platform...
97 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2013
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