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UltraHD on Show in Munich

by Bob Raikes

Eutelsat and Bayerischer Rundfunk ran an UltraHD showcase at the Medientag München 2015 this week. A 6 minute video of Audi and the TU München in Garching were transmitted on Eutelsat’s Ultra HD showcase …

Tags:4k| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 42

RAI Boosts Tivusat HD Channels to 11

by Bob Raikes

RAI of Italy said that it would boost its HD channel count to 11 on its free-to-air (FTA) satellite platform, TivuSat. The current four channels will be joined by by three additional channels by …

Tags:HDTV| Italy| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Satellite| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 42

Google & NYT to Give Away VR Viewers

by Bob Raikes

The New York Times said that it will collaborate with Google to distribute more than a million cardboard VR viewers to subscribers. The New York Times Magazine will release the viewers on the weekend …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 42

Roku to Enter French Market

by Bob Raikes

Roku is to start selling its streaming player technology in France, the first company in Europe outside the UK & Ireland, where it started its European business in 2012. The firm will sell the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 42

Samsung Chooses SWS

by Bob Raikes

SWS is now distributing Samsung’s IT products – including monitors and large displays – in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Tags:Czech Republic| Desktop Monitors| Distribution| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Samsung| Slovakia| Vol 22 - Issue 42

IMDs at an Inflection Point

by Bob Raikes

This week, I spent some time with Sharp in Malta and had a chance to see the Big Pad large interactive display close up and in a demonstration of how it can be used …

Tags:Editorial| Interactive Displays| Interactive Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Meeting Rooms| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart Technologies Inc| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Sharp Explains its Reorganisation and Restructuring in Europe.

by Bob Raikes

Sharp held a big dealer and press event in Malta this week, three years since its last Expo. We were there for the press day and the first of 850 dealer partners were arriving …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Meeting Rooms| Reorganisation & Restructuring| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 41

Wavien Ceases Operations

by Bob Raikes

We heard this week that optical technology specialist, Wavien, has ceased operations. Wavien developed special technology for light recycling.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 41

The OLED Now Arriving at the Gate is Delayed

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing today’s Display Daily on an aeroplane as I fly to a press event put on by Sharp. The event is in Malta – a pleasant place to be for such an event, …

Tags:Aviation| Avionics| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 41

First Impressions of Windows 10

by Bob Raikes

This week, the topic of note was Microsoft. The company surprised everybody by showing its first ever notebook, and, like the Surface, the hardware seems very good. I have to say that I even …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 40| Windows

Inter Airport Europe Event Disappoints for Displays

by Bob Raikes

A few weeks ago, we got a press release from Data Modul which told us that it would be exhibiting its Conrac flight information displays at the Inter Airport Europe show in Munich this …

Tags:Aviation| Flight Information (FIDs)| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 40

The Regulation Battle for Display Power

by Bob Raikes

Our front page this week in Large Display Monitor, covers a story that Samsung is alleged to have used a special technique to detect test material that is part of the standardised video stream …

Tags:Editorial| Europe| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| PDP| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 39