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The Lightning team has announced their latest April 2023 release, bringing an array of updates and improvements aimed at enhancing the development experience. Here's a summary of the major changes in the release.

The over-the-top (OTT) industry has witnessed exponential growth in recent years, driven by the increasing demand for on-demand content and the proliferation of internet-enabled devices. As the industry has evolved, various subscription models have emerged, each catering to different user needs and preferences. In this article, we will explore the various subscription models in the OTT landscape and discuss their impact on consumers, content providers, and the industry as a whole.

The instructions how to extract subtitles from mkv file using mkvtoolnix. This shall work on Mac OS X and Linux.

LightningJS is an open-source JavaScript development platform that uses WebGL for rendering. Neither HTML nor CSS is necessary, which results in high-performance, browser-based TV Apps.

LightningJS enables you to create the smooth animations that you can only dream of when using HTML and CSS.

LightningJS is full of smart optimizations to get the most out of your target's GPU and CPU. It contains many of the common features that you need when building TV Apps.

The installation of Tizen Studio on the Apple M1 processor (Apple Silicon) is specific, so here is how to do it.

As of today, you can watch a new episode of the popular series Black Mirror on your smart TV. The trick is, however, that the story of the episode follows the viewer's choices, so several different outcomes are possible.

German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom is to launch an OTT version of its IPTV platform Entertain TV, which at the same time will be rebranded as MagentaTV.

In its broadest sense, this acronym refers to any data transmitted over the Internet that would have, in the past, required the use of conventional networks- such as terrestrial broadcasting or telephone operator voice services.

SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) has experienced a huge boom in recent years. These services allow customers to conveniently access a wide range of premium video content for a monthly subscription fee, whether it's movies, TV series, documentaries or self-produced content.

Despite the influx of new OTT providers that we've seen in the past year, the three most used services in the industry, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu, have nothing to worry about. Customers remain loyal to them, and their position seems (so far?) unshakeable.

OTTs are no longer only paid services like Netflix. More and more services are entering the scene, delivering free ad-only video content to Smart TVs.

With the latest Smart TV models, users no longer need to use external media boxes to “stream” their favourite movies, series and music through the TV. One product that offers great content without the need for a set-top box is the Samsung Smart TV.

Gamers who own a 2016 or later Samsung Smart TV can now stream games from their Steam libraries directly to their smart TVs.

Nowadays, when we buy a television, the most important parameters to consider are screen size, picture quality, sound quality and connectivity. But in recent years, another factor has become increasingly important: Is the TV truly a Smart TV?