Tcl Group and Archie to launch intelligent TV in September

Recently, the industry has news that Archie Art and TCL Cooperation will be released in September Smart TV products. Yesterday, the Beijing News reporter confirmed this message from Tcl Group, TCL spokesman Liang said that the two sides of the cooperative television September will debut.

Archie will also layout "box"

According to Liang, Archie and Tcl's Smart TV will be officially unveiled in early September. As to stickers whose brand, Liang said, may be Archie art independent brand, may also be the joint venture brand, is not convenient to disclose.

In addition, Liang also said that the cooperation between the two products have been prototype, need to take a look at the market response.

However, Archie still on the news tight-lipped, did not disclose specific partners, also did not disclose the smart TV specifications and prices. However, according to media reports, a source said the smart TV 46 inches, the price of 3000 to 4000 yuan.

According to media reports, in addition to the field of Internet television, the next Archie will also be in the Internet TV box layout. In addition, the upcoming show of Love-QI Art TV, license plate partner is Jiangsu TV station.

According to reports, this July, Archie Art CTO Tang Xing to media said, Archie will release television products, content and technology-oriented, will not be involved in hardware, Archie Art TV will be free, advertising revenue still as the main source of income.

At that time, Tang Hing also said, "Archie Art TV by the traditional manufacturers of electrical appliances, sales channels are also the cooperation of home appliances manufacturers responsible for Archie art to provide content and technical support." ”

Archie, the second Internet company to cross the border into television, has been preparing for a long time on internet television.

January 2012, Archie Art set up the Internet television division, the introduction of beta products, June 2012, Archie Art to participate in the establishment of a licensing joint venture Galaxy Internet Television Co., Ltd., the second half of 2012, Archie Arts to start Archie Art inside strategy, with the terminal manufacturers, research and development focus on a cloud of multiple screens, Multi-screen interaction and CDN and Peer-to-peer Fusion technology products.

Internet companies grab TV screens

Archie Art since this year, first May 7, with the PPS video merge, after the combination of Youku, the video industry, another powerful joint event.

Only one months after the merger, Archie also announced that the integration of the PPS team is complete, involving the market, advertising sales, procurement, finance and other departments.

Archie Art behind the strong support of Baidu, as Baidu's wholly-owned independent video company, Archie Art and many video sites are facing an embarrassing situation: loss. Archie has always needed high bandwidth and content costs, and Archie CEO Gong has said the scale of mobile video profits will take time.

In this context, Archie the tentacles of the Internet television. There is analysis that, behind this is actually part of Baidu layout.

At present, Ali has launched Ali Intelligent TV operating system Ali box, and announced the establishment of Ali Intelligent TV ecosystem, will be with the traditional home appliances manufacturers to cooperate.

There are media reports, Tencent, Beijing and east may later join the Smart TV War, in the PC Internet, mobile internet has been rapid development, television this screen became a few big internet operators eager to seize the third largest flow entrance.