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Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 49

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The BL3201PT monitor from BenQ (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37) is now available in the USA. It is known as the BL3201PH and costs $1,100. A new variant on LG’s 34″ curved widescreen …

Tags:BenQ| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| MMD (AOC Philips)| OLED TVs| Planar| Smartphone Market| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Frankfurt Claims Largest Airport Screen

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A 100m² (5.5m x 18.3m) LED screen has been installed at Frankfurt Airport in Germany – making it the largest digital airport advertising space in Europe. We heard (via our friends at Invidis) that …

Tags:Aviation| DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Hastings: Broadcast TV Dead in 16 Years

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“Broadcast TV will probably last until 2030”, was the bold claim by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings during a recent speech in Mexico City. Hastings has been predicting the death of linear TV (and its …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 21 - Issue 47

HD+ Reaches 1.6 Million Subs

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HD+, the German TV platform, now has almost 1.6 million customers, five years after it was launched. Compared to September 2013, 313,683 new subscribers have joined HD+. An additional 1.3 million viewers are in …

Tags:Germany| HD+ (Germany)| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Massive Billboard Installed in Times Square

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A new digital billboard has been erected in New York’s Times Square – one of the largest and most expensive in the world. Running the length of a full city block, the billboard is …

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KPN Scraps STB for IPTV Service

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Dutch operator KPN is working with SMiT, a manufacturer of conditional access modules (CAMs), to launch an IPTV service that does not require a set-top box. A product pilot will begin next year, using …

Tags:CI+ Interface| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| STBs| Vol 21 - Issue 45

KPN Loses DTT Subscribers

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KPN’s DTT platform in the Netherlands, Digitenne, is believed to have dropped below 500,000 subscribers. In KPN’s recent results, the Digitenne figure came under the heading ‘Other TV homes’ (508,000), which also included analogue …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Terrestrial (DTT)| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Kenya Announces ASO Dates

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We knew that Kenya wanted its analogue switch-off to go ahead soon (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 47), after several delays (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 50 and Vol 20 No 48). The Ministry …

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

JCDecaux Plans Wave-Like Billboard

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A new billboard is being designed for JCDecaux by designer Zaha Hadid, and is to be installed on the south side of West Cromwell Road in London. The sign will use a digital screen, …

Tags:DOOH| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| LED| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

IPTV Rises as Dutch Cable Shrinks

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Telecompaper has said that 55% of Dutch TV subscribers were taking a cable service in Q3’14. At the same time, fibre networks (IPTV) became the third-largest technology for receiving TV, with almost a 10% …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 47

High-Res Streaming Arrives on Amazon

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Amazon’s preparations (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 48) have now concluded. The company has launched UltraHD streaming on its Prime Instant Video service – although the service is currently only accessible on TVs, not …

Tags:4k| Amazon| Large Display Monitor| VOD in UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 49

High-End STB Shipments to Rise Quickly to 2020

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Worldwide UltraHD-capable set-top box shipments will reach 48 million by 2020, says ABI Research. HEVC STB shipments will climb even higher, to 88 million units. Only about 60,000 STBs with both features will be …

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