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Virgin TV Updates Box and Adds “Telly Tablet”

by Bob Raikes

In the UK, cable company Virgin Media has announced a new user interface and STB (V6) that is based on the hardware platform of Liberty Global, which owns the firm. As we reported in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Liberty Global| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 47

OLED to Move Down in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

The ET Times of Korea reports data from UBI Research that forecasts that OLED penetration will reach 62% of the smartphone market by 2021 with LCD dropping back each year. Samsung is reported to …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Civiq Adds Solar Panels to Links

by Bob Raikes

We have reported several times on the Link Totems that have been installed in New York to provide information and Wi-Fi access. Now Civiq has has added solar panels to ten of the devices …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Solar Panels| Vol 23 - Issue 47

UBI Forecasts Solution Processed TV OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

UBI Research has released a forecast that suggests that solution-processed OLEDs will be used for 3% of all OLED TVs by 2019, rising to 15% by 2021, with the balance being made using WOLED …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Loewe Bild 3 Gets to Market

by Bob Raikes

Loewe has released the Bild 3 TV sets that it showed at the IFA show in September. Features include an external digital recorder that can support capacities up to 1 TB. (Loewe is Back …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 47

FreeNet Warns of DVB-T Shutdown

by Bob Raikes

A DOOH campaign has started in Germany to inform consumers that DTT transmissions using DVB-T technology will stop at the end of March in 2017. The country is switching to DVB-T2 and started transmissions …

Tags:DVB-T & T2| FTA (Free to Air)| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Delhaize Promotes Fresh Food

by Bob Raikes

Delhaize, a Belgian supermarket owned by Ahold (Albert Heijn) in the Netherlands for the last few months, has done a deal with Clear Channel to promote its fresh produce. The project was created and …

Tags:Belgium| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 23 - Issue 47

BernMobil Adds Bus Screens, but Drops them at Stops

by Bob Raikes

After a test of displays on buses, BernMobil plans to put 300 displays in buses and trams in the city of Bern in Switzerland by 2019. Tenders are expected to be requested in Q1 …

Tags:DOOH| Mobile Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Aixtron Waits for Obama

by Bob Raikes

We reported on a negative view from the German authorities on the potential acquisition of Aixtron by China’s Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund (FGC) (Aixtron Sale to China Blocked). The deal was also viewed …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Panasonic Boosts Contrast with Dual Layer LCD

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic said that it has developed an IPS LCD panel concept with 1,000,000:1 contrast, using a second liquid crystal layer to modulate the light from the backlight. The company said that the modulation layer …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Vol 23 - Issue 47

HTC Flat in Sales in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Reports from Taiwan say that HTC is not expecting increased sales revenues in 2017 because it is struggling to ramp up demand for the HTC Vive headset. Although it has signed up with Sprint …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Intel, Nvidia For Gaming at CES

by Bob Raikes

Reports from the supply chain suggest that the H version of Intel’s Kaby Lake (7th Generation iCore) for high performance and gaming notebooks will be shown at CES. The Nvidia GTX1050 notebook GPU is …

Tags:CES 2017| Chips| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 23 - Issue 47