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TiVo’s DVR is for Serious Videophiles

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Aiming at the custom AV sector, TiVo has unleashed a massive DVR: the TiVo Mega, boasting 24TB of storage space. The unit can record 26,000 hours of content in SD or 4,000 in HD. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| PVRs (DVRs) Personal Digital Video Recorders| Tivo| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Streaming Video Popularity Almost Equals Broadcast

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The popularity of streamed video is now almost equal to broadcast, according to Ericsson. The organisation says that, in 23 countries, 75% of people watch streamed content several times a week, compared to 77% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| TV Reception| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Serbia Sets ASO Date

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Serbia has set a date for the start of analogue switchoff. It will begin on the 1st March 2015 and be finished by the 1st May. Free set-top boxes will be distributed to some …

Tags:DTV| Europe| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Netflix Enters Major Markets

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Netflix has made a major push in Europe, launching its service in France and Germany. Other countries – Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland – will follow soon, and a launch in Spain and Australia …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

GSMA Opposes EBU’s Views on 700MHz

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The GSMA, representing mobile operators, has called on the European Commission (EC) to hasten the switch of the UHF spectrum (470-790MHz) to mobile data traffic. The current plan is to achieve the move by …

Tags:EBU| GSMA| Large Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Dutch Digital Market Slowly Creeps Forward

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The Dutch digital TV market grew just 0.8% QoQ in Q2’14, according to Telecompaper. Subscribers totalled 6.76 million, from 6.72 million in Q1. The total market, including analogue customers, was 7.71 million, 87.7% of …

Tags:DTV| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

DCC Labs Joins HbbTV

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Poland’s DCC Labs joined the HbbTV initiative in July, it announced earlier this month. The organisation, which licenses software and provides integration and migration services for IPTV, DVB and OTT devices, was previously a …

Tags:HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Connected Sets Approach 1 Billion in 2020

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Digital TV Research predicts that almost 1 billion TV sets (965 million) worldwide will be connected to the internet by 2020; up from 339 million expected at the end of this year. The figure …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

ZTE Takes Phablet to the Mid-Range

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The ZMax phablet, from ZTE, is a mid-range device with a 5.7″ display (1280 x 720) and 3,400mAh battery – lasting for two days on average, the company claims. Android 4.4 runs on a …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Wood and Leather Lend Touch of Elegance to Motorola

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Motorola has begun to launch the second generation of the Moto X and Moto G smartphones. They are available for $500 and $180, respectively. The Moto X’s display and resolution have grown from 4.7″ …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Tesco Cancels Hudl Smartphone

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Tesco’s Hudl tablet was wildly popular last year, but the company has cancelled plans for a 4G smartphone under the same brand. Since the phone, apparently capable of challenging the Galaxy S5, was first …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Tesco| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Senseg Approaches Commercialisation

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We have followed haptic feedback company Senseg since 2011 (Display Monitor Vol 18 No 50), and the company has now released its first developer kit. The Senseg Feelscreen kit is a 7″ Nexus 7 …

Tags:Haptics| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21