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Metz Maintaining Brand and Adding Skyworth

by Bob Raikes

Metz was taken over by Skyworth a couple of years ago and held a press conference before the event. There was a clear message about the future of TV with Alexa, Android TV and …

Tags:IFA 2017| Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Skyworth| Vol 24 - Issue 33

Panasonic Still Going for Power and Adds Big OLED

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic held a press event before the show and after the obligatory bass-heavy video, Laurent Abadie, CEO of Panasonic Europe, arrived on an electric scooter. These are now being introduced in Berlin and Paris …

Tags:IFA 2017| Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Panasonic| Vol 24 - Issue 33

Telekom Adds UltraHD to its STB

by Bob Raikes

Deutsche Telekom (DT) is releasing a new STB, the MR401, will support UltraHD and will support direct access to Netflix. The Netflix access will be added to the DT Entertain TV offering. Ultra HD …

Caterpillar Adds Rugged Tablet

by Bob Raikes

Caterpillar is bringing its first rugged tablet to the market, with a list price of €649 (including tax – $640). The rugged tablet, with a Windows 10 operating system and LTE, was specially developed …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Fox Sports Plans UHD College Football

by Bob Raikes

Fox Sports in the US plans to produce one college football game per week in UltraHD (a total of 13 games) starting on 2nd September and featuring the Maryland Terrapins versus the Texas Longhorns. …

MStar Adopts Dolby MS12 v2 for Atmos Support

by Bob Raikes

Dolby Labs and MStar said that MStar has made a new Dolby Multistream Decoder MS12 chip that can provide TV makers with a single-package solution for decoding premium audio content worldwide — broadcast, file-based, …

Tags:Chips| Dolby Atmos| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Flexible Plastic E-Paper Displays Available

by Bob Raikes

Flexible, glass-free electrophoretic active matrix displays fromPlastic Logic are now available from Review Display Systems. Plastic Logic manufactures. Standard sizes are available from 1.1” to 10.7” (1280×960) with up to 16 grey scales.

Tags:Distribution| E Ink| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Sony Looking to Double OLED Supply

by Bob Raikes

Business Korea reports that Sony has been enjoying great demand for its OLED TVs and the paper said that as a result, the company has asked LG to double its OLED TV shipments. The …

Haier Goes to Court Over ATSC Licensing

by Bob Raikes

In the US, Chinese TV maker, Haier, has filed an anti-trust lawsuit claiming that the MPEG LA (and LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Philips and the Columbia University Trust Committee) are monopolizing the ATSC patents and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor

DirecTV Adds Local Affiliates

by Bob Raikes

DirecTV has added 25 ABC, NBC and Fox local affiliates to its DirecTV Now streaming service bringing the total to 130 local stations in 70 markets. The company plans to increase this number further …

Internet Video Archive Aims to Shake Up Content Discovery

by Bob Raikes

Internet Video Archive is creating a content discovery solution that is intended to solve the problem of supplying metadata, images and trailers/clips with pricing from $250 per month and “never higher than $12,000 per …

Tags:Content Discovery| Large Display Monitor| Software| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Vivitek’s new D4000 Series of Laser Projectors Has High Output

by Bob Raikes

Vivitek (Delta) has launched a new D4000 Series of laser phosphor projectors that are claimed to offer high performance for medium sized conference rooms without a weight and size penalty – the units weigh …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Vivitek| Vol 24 - Issue 32