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ShowMax Poland Launch Tops Netflix

by Alan Spencer

ShowMax clocked up over twice as many viewers on PC devices as Netflix on 15th February, the day of its first broadcast in Poland. Data produced by PBI/Gemius, shows that ShowMax had 172,000 viewers …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Poland| Vol 24 - Issue 08

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Frontier using SES for Service Delivery of Ultra HD

by Alan Spencer

SES’s managed Ultra HD distribution platform is being used by Frontier Communications Corporation to test 4K Ultra HD content delivery. Frontier is using the platform to move to Ultra HD delivery for its subscribers …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| North America| Satellite| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Renesas Electronics Acquires Intersil

by Alan Spencer

Renesas Electronics Corporation has acquired Intersil Corporation. Renesas is a provider of semiconductor solutions and Intersil provides power management and analogue solutions. Renesas has announced that it will continue technical support and future product …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Smart TVs and Digital Devices Drive Demand for OTT

by Alan Spencer

According to the Frost & Sullivan Digital Media team there is a consumer preference for OTT content due to the widespread use of smart TVs and digital devices. Although the market slowed down during …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Gracenote Upgrades Guide for Video, Music and Sport

by Alan Spencer

Gracenote is launching an entertainment databases for video, music and sport, which will enable global service providers and smart device makers to provide voice and text search to their subscribers. The new entertainment databases …

Tags:EPGs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 08

EBU DG to Leave in the Summer

by Alan Spencer

Ingrid Deltenre, the EBU director general, is leaving her post to focus on other board responsibilities. She has spent eight years in her role at the EBU and will be leaving in the summer. …

Tags:EBU| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Vol 24 - Issue 08

LG Moves European HQ to Germany

by Alan Spencer

In April last year, LG Electronics announced that it would move its existing European Headquarters from London to Germany (LG Relocates from UK to Germany). This was based on LG’s belief that Germany offered …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Dish Network Adds 694,00 New Pay-TV Subscribers in 4Q 2016

by Alan Spencer

Dish Network added 694,000 new pay-TV subscribers in the last quarter of 2016 compared to 661,000 in the same quarter a year earlier. Taking churn into account, Dish Networks increased its pay-TV subscriber numbers …

Tags:Dish Network| Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Nokia to Resell Eurofins Digital Testing Products and Services

by Alan Spencer

Eurofins Digital Testing has announced that Nokia is to resell Eurofins’ products and services. Nokia will be reselling Eurofins’ TestWizard automation suite, which helps operators reduce the time spent on repetitive manual tests; and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Nokia| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Top Five Selling Projectors for January Listed for North America

by Alan Spencer

PMA Research lists the top five selling projectors in a number of categories and publishes the lists every month. The firm has been collecting monthly data for 18 years from North American projector dealers, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Vodafone Spain to Introduce UHD

by Alan Spencer

Vodafone Spain’s is to offer an additional service based on the latest version of the TiVo platform and will include five UltraHD channels plus UltraHD coverage of La Liga football and Netflix content. The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Spain| UltraHD| Vodafone| Vol 24 - Issue 07

CrucialTec Introduces On-Screen Fingerprint Scanner

by Alan Spencer

According to the Korea Herald, on-screen fingerprint scanners are now being introduced by fingerprint module maker CrucialTec and will be available to global smartphone manufacturers this year. The “Display Fingerprint Solution” is claimed to …

Tags:Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 07