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by Bob Raikes
Coop Stores in Switzerland has opened the first of what is planned to be an update to its store designs. The new stores use LED lighting and electronic shelf labels – with 865 stores, …
Tags:Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Large Display Monitor| Retail| Switzerland| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
IDC released its data on the videoconferencing market. The company said that the worldwide enterprise videoconferencing and telepresence equipment report showed positive results in Q3 2016 with overall videoconferencing equipment revenue increasing both 7.4% …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| VideoConferencing| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
There are lots of reports about VR headset sales and the list of analysts has been joined by Canalys which believes that headset sales will exceed two million units in 2016, with growth forecast …
Tags:Canalys| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
Nvidia is reported to be rapidly developing support for the recently announced Google Play 4K service (Google Now Has UltraHD Movies) and is planning a firmware update to ensure compatibility. It seems that the …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 23 - Issue 49| VP9
by Bob Raikes
Telefónica has started a project to create an Open Middleware solution to integrate in set-top boxes, based on the Frog Source solution from Wyplay. Frog Source brings together more than 200 components powering all …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Software| STBs| Vol 23 - Issue 50
by Bob Raikes
We reported at the end of October that researchers had found that the Pokemon Go craze had encouraged more movement and excercise (And finally… Pokemon Go Makes You Healthier!). Sadly, the effect has been …
Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
The BBC has put a programme, “We Wait”, an animate film about the dangerous boat journey from Turkey to Greece made by migrants, on the Oculus store so that it can be viewed on …
Tags:AR/VR| BBC| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
Amazon has now made its Prime Video service available in 200 countries and territories around the world, either free as part of its Prime service, or for €2.99 (or $2.99) in most of the …
Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Smart TV| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
S[quadrat] will show its LED walls with pitches from 1.2mm upwards. There will be a highlight of a Sky SI[1.9 SMD] NT V4 LED display integrated into a wall. There will also be a …
Tags:Back Panel| ISE 2017| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced a major software policy initiative to rapidly accelerate widespread HEVC/UHD adoption in consumer mobile devices and personal computers. Under the software initiative, HEVC Advance will not …
Tags:HEVC Advance| Software
by Bob Raikes
Video optimisation specialist, Beamr Imaging Ltd, has received $4 million in funding from Verizon Ventures. The money will be used to develop improved network performance and and video quality. Analyst Comment Verizon has an …
Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49
by Bob Raikes
HEVC Advance, which is a licence pool of patents for H.265, said that it will not “seek a license or royalties on HEVC functionality implemented in application layer software downloaded to mobile devices or …
Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49| VP9
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