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Bosnia Ministry Issues New DTT Tender

by Alan Spencer

The communications and transport ministry in Bosnia, has released an international tender for the supply of digital microwave links for the second phase of public broadcasting digitisation for the country. Suppliers have 40 days …

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BBC Calls for Priority Listing

by Alan Spencer

In the UK, a senior BBC executive has said he wants BBC shows to be given priority listing in EPGs., especially over Sky and Netflix programmes. James Purnell, director of radio and education at …

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LG and Tokujin Yoshioka Celebrate Innovation at Milan Design Week

by Alan Spencer

LG will make their debut at the 2017 Milan Design Week to highlight its longstanding passion for design and innovation, the company stated. LG announced that their participation is to commemorate its 70th anniversary. …

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Netflix Recommended TVs for 2017 are LG, Samsung and Sony

by Alan Spencer

Netflix encourages TV manufacturers to provide faster and better app experience for viewers. For 2017, the TVs that Netflix recommends are LG, Samsung and Sony, and these will will carry the “Netflix Recommended” logo, …

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Wearables Devices Shipments to Rise to 237.5 million by 2021

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, the overall wearables market is expected grow after a brief slowdown last year, which was brought about by delayed launches and vendors struggling to maintain pace. IDC forecasts that new vendors, …

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Latin America pay TV subscribers by country

Mexico Overtakes Brazil as Largest Pay-TV Market in Region

by Alan Spencer

Mexico overtook Brazil last year to become Latin America’s largest pay-TV market even though Brazil has twice as many TV households, according to Digital TV Research. Mexico has benefited from strong adoption of prepaid …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Pay TV| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Eye Gaze Webinar to be Run by Tobii Dynavox

by Alan Spencer

A free thirty minute webinar on eye gaze technology is to be run by Tobii Dynavox on Wednesday 12th April at 7pm BST. The webinar, “The Tobii Dynavox Eye Gaze Pathway”, is designed as …

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Nintendo Switch Beats Targets

by Alan Spencer

Due to short supply of Nintendo’s Switch consoles, the company is ramping up production to 16 million units over the next 12 months, although the original plan was for only 8 million units. When …

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Swarovski’s Smart Watch Suffers Launch Delay

by Alan Spencer

For those looking forward to the Swarovski smartwatch at Baselworld 2017, the news is that the company is postponing the launch. The smartwatch was announced at CES 2017, and was advertised as an Android …

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Signagelive to Support Philips Android Displays

by Alan Spencer

Signagelive has partnered with Philips Professional Display Solutions to support Android-powered SoC-based Philips Displays. The displays will be launched in the US at Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas later this month. The first …

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Qualcomm-based VRDK Headset to be Launched in 2H 2017

by Alan Spencer

As previously reported, the Qualcomm VRDK is a reference design for manufacturers to use to create headsets based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 chip, which is built specifically for VR. The first headset to be …

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Light Polymers Raises Funding for OLED Expansion

by Alan Spencer

Light Polymers has announced a $24.3 million funding round, so that it can expand research and development and scale up the chemistry and film production of its 35 micron-thick OLED circular polariser. The company …

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