If you don’t have a web-connected smart TV in your house, odds are you soon will. That’s the takeaway from a new report from research firm IHS.
IHS projects that smart TV household penetration will reach 50 percent in the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan by 2019.
Hisakazu Torii, senior director of consumer device research for IHS Technology, said the following:
“Growing availability of 4K content from online video providers will … support this trend, as will the introduction of ultra-high-definition Blu-ray in 2016,”
Torii also feels that China will not be too far behind these other markets in smart TV growth:
“With content providers and smart-device manufacturers, such as Alibaba, LeTV and Xiaomi, now entering the TV set market, Chinese consumers have more smart-TV choices than ever before . . . Increased sales of 4K TVs will accelerate these trends in the Chinese market.”
Is there a smart TV in your family room already, Insiders?
[via Home Media Magazine]
This is deceptive. What percentage of households have broadband? It’s a “chicken and egg issue”. Without broadband… the “smart” ain’t so smart!
Won’t have one, I have enough folks looking in on me.
I still like my 50″ Dumb TV….. It’s fine for me..
Won’t have one, I have enough folks looking in me.
One big thing they don’t tell you here is….
If you have the Caps on your Net Use… Like Comcast is doing now….
The 4 K bit will help suck up your cap limit…
Just a thought…
Even 1080 can suck it up too.
Yes you are right….. I’m on Time Warner.. No Caps…. YET!
Now if Charter gets them? They said no caps. Then they do a back track and say no caps for two years.. I bet that will change fast if the get Time Warner….
It’s just one more rip off..
I am pretty sure all ISPs will enforce caps. :(
Yes you are right. And it just a rip off.
But one big thing is…. What if you have a family of 4,5…
How far do you think your 300GB limit will go.. Not far…
Something will be done….
They should try this……
300 GB’s $50.00
600 GB’s $70.00
900 GB’s $90.00
Something like that………..
But they will never do it… GREED…..
I don’t have one yet and I’m not in a hurry to get one.
I have a Samsung early generation smart tv. It only has ethernet so we don’t use it much since we moved a few years ago. Honestly we hardly ever used it because the apps are really slow to get updates, always lag way behind other platforms. These days we just use our Chromecast which is way easier.
Not to mention the whole scandal of TV makers secretly logging things they promised they wouldn’t.
Joe Dirt (the original).
Maybe this time (after years of entering) I’ll finally be chosen
. . .or not
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