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New Curved LED Screens to Light up Piccadilly Circus

by Alan Spencer

Piccadilly Circus, in London, currently lacks DOOH signage, as previously reported in the Piccadilly Circus to Go Dark article. The screens marketed by Media Owner Ocean Outdoor UK were dismantled and replaced by a …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Two US Pay-TV Providers Launch Linear Ultra HD Services

by Alan Spencer

Two multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) have launched the first commercial linear Ultra HD services to cable and IPTV subscriber homes in the US. The services were launched using SES’s satellite-delivered, pre-packaged, Ultra HD …

ARM-Powered Windows 10 PCs to be Launched by Year End

by Alan Spencer

Following the speculation that Microsoft is to run Windows 10 on Qualcomm, it has now been confirmed by the chip-maker and ARM licensee, Qualcomm, that the first ARM-powered Windows 10 PCs will arrive before …

LG Electronics, Comm-Tec and OneLan to Tour Six German Cities

by Alan Spencer

LG Electronics, Comm-Tec and OneLan have launched a digital signage roadshow which will visit six German cities. The three companies will present their solutions for digital signage in Munich (25th April), Uhingen (26th April), …

EMEA Notebook Market Sees Growth in 2017 Q1

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, the EMEA region PC market showed growth of 1.6% in the first quarter of 2017, and hit 17.4 million units. There was strong performance from notebooks which grew 8.9% in the …

Sharp to Enter European Smartphone Market Next Year

by Alan Spencer

According to the Chinese-language, Economic Daily News, Sharp is planning to start selling its smartphones in Europe next year, through one of its subsidiary companies. Sharp has recently revamped its strategy for smartphones and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 16

PCCW Global Delivers a 360° VR Rugby Experience with Harmonic

by Alan Spencer

Harmonic has announced that its Electra VS video system was used by PCCW Global to deliver immersive 360° VR experiences live during the 2017 Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament earlier this month. …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Large TV Panel Prices Show Slight Price Increase in April

by Alan Spencer

Sigmaintell has released its second-quarter 2017 estimates for the demand and supply of global TV panels, and expects to see a slight growth of 5.8%. This month, most of the panel prices remain relatively …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| Vol 24 - Issue 16

NanoLumens Completes LED Displays at Canadian Airports

by Alan Spencer

NanoLumens has completed the installation of nine custom-designed Nixel-series LED displays in Toronto Pearson, Vancouver, and Montreal Trudeau international airports in Canada. In December 2014, NanoLumens installed a 20′ x 4′ (6m x 1.2m) …

Tags:Aviation| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Orange to Virtualise its STB

by Alan Spencer

Stéphane Richard, CEO of Orange has said that within the next five years, Orange is going to virtualise its set-top box, removing the TV decoder from its dual-box Livebox device completely. Richard, who was …

Tags:Cloud TV| France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 16

LG Displays Used in Russian Video Project of the Year

by Alan Spencer

A digital signage project for Ulmart, a Russian online retailer, has won the Project of the Year Award at the Business Video Event 2017, organized by Russian IT magazine, ‘LAN’, in Moscow. Ulmart sells …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Retailers| Russia| Vol 24 - Issue 16

iWalker Aims to be the First DOOH Pay-Per-Eye System

by Alan Spencer

A new experiential digital signage platform, called iWalker, has been introduced by British company, Nomadix Media. The signage platform tailors digital adverts to appeal to groups of people by analysing audiences facial features and …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Portable Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 16