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HBO Max
Living
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HBO Max rebrands itself and relaunches on May 23

As expected, Warner Bros. Discovery revealed its plans regarding the HBO Max streaming service. The company announced earlier today that the service will be relaunched on May 23 under a different name: Max. According to Warner Bros. Discovery, Max is an…

Google TV
General
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Google TV has just added 800 free channels to its offering

Google TV is trying to catch up with the competition and has just announced a massive expansion of its offering. Starting today, no less than 800 free channels will be available via the Google TV streaming service. The new offering comes with a new live TV…

Google TV
Living
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Google TV adds new landing pages to simplify navigation

Google announced today via a blog post a set of new improvements coming to the Google TV platform that will add four new landing pages in the United States to make it simpler for viewers to access their preferred forms of entertainment without having to…

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Electronics
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South Korean TV brands dominate Vietnam market

South Korean TV manufacturers Samsung and LG account for more than 50% of Vietnam’s market share, ranking first and third place respectively. Samsung leads with a 35-40.5% market share each month between October last year and this year, according to Thanh…

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Electronics
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TV sales boom a week before football World Cup

Television sales have soared in the last two days as the football World Cup 2022 began unlike previous events when demand would skyrocket a month before kickoff. Hoang Thinh, 32, who was leaving an electronics store on Nguyen Trai Street, Hanoi, on November…

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Living
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Netflix to charge extra fees for extra users in 2023

The latest development in Netflix’s plans to dissuade account sharing has surfaced via a quarterly earnings letter. It reveals extra charges for each separate user on the account of the owner, that isn’t from the same household, starting 2023. While the final…

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Living
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Netflix announces new ad-supported plan

Brace yourselves – ads are coming…to Netflix. The streaming platform has formally bid farewell to its ‘no ads’ policy and announced today its first ad-supported plan in an official blogpost. The ‘Basic with Ads’ (as if Netflix could have devised a more…

Google TV
Living
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50 free TV channels are coming to Google TV

Google TV is an app available for both Android and iOS devices. The app allows you to find movies and television shows that you can watch on demand from several platforms including Pluto TV, Tubi TV, Plex, Prime Video, Peacock, YouTube, and more. 9to5Google…

Yeah TV
Living
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Yeah1 to buy TV firm amid restructuring

Online entertainment company Yeah1 plans to buy a 51 percent stake in TV and radio company STV amid a major restructuring endeavor. The deal is set to be completed this quarter. STV, established in 2008, owns lifestyle TV channel StyleTV, stock and finance…

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Living
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Pay TV firm AVG appoints new CEO

Vu Minh Tri, former CEO of Microsoft Vietnam, is the new CEO of pay TV firm AVG. Tri, 49, replaces Mai Duy Long, also 49, who helmed AVG for nearly two years. Tri, who became the CEO of Sony Ericsson Vietnam in 2006, has since taking top positions in the…

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Living
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The Roku Channel adds 50 free Live TV channels

The Roku Channel is adding new content all the time, which is probably one of the reasons it’s one of the most popular providers of live TV channels. Today, the service announced that no less than 50 Live TV channels will be available for free via The Roku…

Google AI
General
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New Google TV app now available for iPhone and iPad users

Google has just announced that one of its apps that was initially only available for Android users is finally coming to iOS. The Google TV app allows users discover what to watch with recommendations from across all apps installed, thus making it easy to…