Roku just gained the support of another major TV b
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Posted On: 01/21/2016 7:23:46 AM
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Roku just gained the support of another major TV brand — Sharp.
The companies on Wednesday announced they are teaming up to offer two new Sharp-branded smart TV sets, which will run the Roku operating system. The move makes Sharp the fifth company to embrace Roku's TV platform, following Haier, Hisense, Insignia, and TCL.
iPhone maker Foxconn offers $5.3 billion to buy Sharp
Sharp was an early player in the flat panel screen market, but the Japanese company has decided to leave behind their TV business in the Americas, agreeing to license their name to a Chinese company, Hisense. Sharp sold its factory in Mexico to Hisense, which will presumably supply TVs to customers in North and South America alike.
Sharp will hand over the keys and the brand name in January of 2016, and they’re the manufacturer of any TVs under that brand that you see in stores now. Well, except for the line of Sharp TVs sold at Best Buy that the retailer licensed the well-known manufacturer’s name for, and which the company said at the time are totally not just Insignia TVs with a Sharp label slapped on them.
The companies on Wednesday announced they are teaming up to offer two new Sharp-branded smart TV sets, which will run the Roku operating system. The move makes Sharp the fifth company to embrace Roku's TV platform, following Haier, Hisense, Insignia, and TCL.
iPhone maker Foxconn offers $5.3 billion to buy Sharp
Sharp was an early player in the flat panel screen market, but the Japanese company has decided to leave behind their TV business in the Americas, agreeing to license their name to a Chinese company, Hisense. Sharp sold its factory in Mexico to Hisense, which will presumably supply TVs to customers in North and South America alike.
Sharp will hand over the keys and the brand name in January of 2016, and they’re the manufacturer of any TVs under that brand that you see in stores now. Well, except for the line of Sharp TVs sold at Best Buy that the retailer licensed the well-known manufacturer’s name for, and which the company said at the time are totally not just Insignia TVs with a Sharp label slapped on them.
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