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Amazon Echo Look Introduced

by Alan Spencer

Amazon in the US has released a new addition to its Echo range, called the Amazon Echo Look, which is a new Alexa-controlled selfie camera which will actually act as a style assistant. The …

Tags:Amazon| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 16

bcom Wins NAB Show Technology Innovation Award

by Alan Spencer

The French institute, bcom, has received the Technology Innovation Award at the NAB Show 2017 for its technology to convert SDR (standard dynamic range) content into HDR (high dynamic range) format in real time. …

Roku TVs Will use ACR To Track What is Being Watched

by Alan Spencer

Roku’s latest update includes Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to track what viewers are watching via cable or via antenna, and to then give the viewers additional viewing options via streaming. ACR uses image recognition …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Roku| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Nvidia Shield Can Now Stream 4K Movies

by Alan Spencer

The Nvidia Shield box has received an update that enables it to stream 4K movies from the Google Play Movie store and also enables the built-in Chromecast feature to handle 4K movies. Google started …

Tags:Consoles| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Hungary’s TV2 Studio Revamped by Absen UHD LEDs

by Alan Spencer

Hungary’s TV news channel, TV2’s Tenyek, has carried out a studio redesign to show videos, pictures and graphics relating to the news stories. The studio design included a large and curved background surround display, …

Tags:Absen| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Shaun the Sheep to Enter VR World

by Alan Spencer

Aardman is to launch a Shaun the Sheep video in VR, entitled “Shaun the Sheep Movie Barn VR”, and joins a handful of other international children’s brands who have made VR content available to …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Intel and Carnegie Mellon Set Up Mobile Video Research Programme

by Alan Spencer

According to a white paper, “Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update”, by 2021, the average person will have multiple connected mobile devices, and 75% of mobile data traffic will be …

Intel and NeuLion Enable Secure, 4K UHD Sports Streaming

by Alan Spencer

As consumer demand for higher quality video grows for live sports and movies, 4K UHD resolution becomes more important, Intel believes. Using 7th generation Intel core processors and Intel software guard extensions (SGX) will …

FutureWorks Goes For Barco 4K Projection

by Alan Spencer

Barco has announced a renewed partnership with FutureWorks Media, one of Asia’s post-production houses. FutureWorks has recently invested in a Barco 4K post production projector at its Mumbai facility and has relied on Barco …

GoVision and digiLED Toura6 Used for Basketball Event

by Alan Spencer

GoVision and digiLED, presented all the action at the 2017 NCAA Final Four held at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Arizona which finished at the beginning of this month. The LED screens erected …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Sports and Stadiums| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Russian Pay-TV Suffers Quarter Drop

by Alan Spencer

Russia’s pay-TV market added 180,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2017, which was the lowest growth rate in five years. Kommersan, a Russian daily newspaper, quoted figures produced by TelecomDaily, indicating that the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Russia| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Netflix Makes Deal with iQiyi in China

by Alan Spencer

In a licensing deal with local video streaming service iQiyi.com, Netflix will introduce original content in China and will try and keep the content as near to International schedules as possible. Netflix has struggled …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 24 - Issue 16