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TV Everywhere Becoming Pervasive in Europe

by Bob Raikes

Dataxis said that TV Everywhere (TVE) services are now available to 72% of Pay TV subscribers in Europe after starting in 2011. These services allow customers to also watch traditional TV offers (DTH, cable, …

Review of VR Excercising

by Bob Raikes

A journalist for Forbes.com has spent a month using VR while excercising on a fixed bike. Her conclusion? She didn’t like the sweat from the HTC Vive she used and had to get over …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 14

UltraHD Action Camera with 60fps Available

by Bob Raikes

Yi Technology said that it has made a 60fps version of its UltraHD Yi 4K+ Action Camera available (4K Action Camera Available Now in the UK) and it’s now being sold on Amazon and …

TV Connect Seems Quieter

by Bob Raikes

I didn’t get to the TV Connect event in London last year and the last time I attended was in 2015, when it was held in West London. This year, the event had moved …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Connect 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 13

UDC Patents Hybrid OLED / LED MEMS Display

by Bob Raikes

Fresh Patents Online showed that UDC has been granted a new patent (US2017/0062531) for a hybrid MEMS/OLED display that uses a blue LED backlight layer and ‘at least’ one shutter between the backlight and …

Vizio 2017 D-Series Smart TVs do Not Have HDR

by Bob Raikes

Vizio has shown its 2017 D-series Smart TV series the largest of which use direct backlighting panels with 10 zones on the 55″ and 12 on the 65″ for better contrast . 120Hz backlight …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Vizio| Vol 24 - Issue 12

HiSilicon Gets Support and Adds Media Hub Application

by Bob Raikes

HiSilicon (the chip-making subsidiary of Huawei) told us that it had no new SoCs for STBs since IBC. At the show it was mainly talking about new middleware versions. Separately, iWedia said that it …

Opera TV Works with BBC on HbbTV Synchronisation

by Bob Raikes

OperaTV was at the show to demonstrate its OS for smart TVs and also had one of the most interesting technical demos at the event. Opera has been working with the BBC to implement …

Tags:HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Connect 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Virtual Laval Heads for Twenty

by Bob Raikes

Bizarrely, in the middle of the French countryside is a high technology event about VR (and AR and MR). Virtual Laval is in its 19th year as a conference on the development of VR, …

Tags:Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Diota Developing Projection AR System

by Bob Raikes

We reported on Diota at last year’s Laval event and the progress is clear from last year’s ‘sheet metal prototype’ to something that looks much more like a finished product this time. (Diota Offers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Sharp Shows New Aquos Boards at DSE

by Bob Raikes

Sharp showed new Aquos Board interactive displays at the DSE show in the US. The 80” PN-C805B and 70” Class (69.5” diagonal) PN-C705B displays use the direct bonded (3.1mm glass) ‘Pen-on-paper’ PCap touch system …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Nucleus VR Uses the Cast AR 3D Projector

by Bob Raikes

NucleusVR is an integrator that is developing a collaboration platform for VR applications that allows the use of 360º photography together with models built from CAD data. The company was showing how its system …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12