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Panasonic is Technical Partner of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic was the technical partner for the Cannes Film Festival and said that it would highlight its know-how and collaboration with the film community, forged through the Panasonic Hollywood Lab. The company used the …

Nationwide SmithGeiger Survey Finds Next-Generation ATSC 3.0 Features Increase Consumer Spending on and Accelerate Purchase of Smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

Results of a nationwide SmithGeiger consumer survey conducted on the Advanced Television Systems Committee’s new ATSC 3.0 features, including those enabled by Verance® Aspect™, demonstrate significant increases in willingness to spend more on a …

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Survey Finds ATSC 3.0 Features Boost Smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

The results of a US nationwide SmithGeiger consumer survey conducted on the Advanced Television Systems Committee’s new ATSC 3.0 features demonstrate significant increases in willingness to spend more on a smart TV and accelerate …

Nielsen Measures OOH TV

by Bob Raikes

Some six months ago, Nielsen said in the US that it was planning to measure TV commercial viewing in public spaces including hospitality, gyms and transportation sites. ESPN is the first company to use …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Delta to Trial Face Recognition

by Bob Raikes

Delta Airlines is introducing new self-service bad drop machines at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport this summer and one of them will be equipped with a facial recognition system to match the baggage to …

Tags:Aviation| face recognition| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Com Hem Retains Tivo, but adds Android

by Bob Raikes

Broadband TV News reports that at the Connected TV World Summit, Thomas Helbo, the CTO of Com Hem, the Swedish Pay TV operator, said that it will launch an Android-based STB that will be …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Mediatek Wins Oppo & Vivo with Helio

by Bob Raikes

Taiwan and blog sources are pointing to a design win for Mediatek’s Helio P30 chips with Oppo and Vivo, both Chinese smartphone brands on the rise. (see MWC 2017 Round-up for comments on the …

Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Asus to Drop Smartwatches?

by Bob Raikes

Various sources in Taiwan are saying that Asus is to abandond the smartwatch market as it has seen sale of its ZenWatch 3 at levels lower than it hoped and at just 5,000 to …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Take a Big Breath, It’s Display Week…

by Bob Raikes

Next week is the annual SID Display Week, the highlight of the display industry and a real pleasure if you are a geek like me. There will be plenty to see and hear. I …

GBVI Gets Good References

by Bob Raikes

Both Sony and Canon were keen to mention that they were using optical blending with their projectors that was developed by GBVI of the UK, an unusual accolade from two companies that are very …

Tags:Blend & Warp| ITEC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Rockwell Collins Has Plans to Improve Coalescence

by Bob Raikes

Rockwell Collins showed the Coalescence system that Chris looked at the I/TSTEC show (Rockwell Collins Shows Multiple AR/MR Demos). This is a mixed reality headset made from an Oculus Rift with a camera for …

Canon Shows Blended 4K Displays

by Bob Raikes

Canon was showing the 4K600STZ which is a 6,000 ANSI lumen DCI 4K projector in a blended application and based on its LCOS chips. The company announced the projector last year and we saw …