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Asbis has opened a London base to focus on the Prestigio brand and will be shipping Prestigio products, including tablets, smartphones and large touch screen PCs, from its European warehouse in Prague.
Tags:Asbis (Prestigio)| Distributors| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 45
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The European Commission has published a working paper proposing new energy standards for large-screen TVs and monitors, which would cap their energy use. TVs in Europe are currently ranked according to the internal efficiency …
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Entropic has announced that it will no longer produce SoC devices for use in set-top boxes. The company will continue to supply its STB SoCs that are already in production and believes that the …
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Amazon’s Fire TV Stick (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 43) has been launched in the USA. It costs $40.
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Namibian public broadcaster NBC will turn off analogue broadcasts on 31st January next year. The date represents a slight delay to the original date (15th December) after an appeal to ensure that enough decoders …
Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 21 - Issue 49
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Antik Telecom, in Slovakia, will launch a hybrid OTT-satellite TV service in Q1’15. There will be six pay-TV packages, with up to 80 channels. The satellite portion will use the DVB-S2 format. Additionally, Antik …
Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Satellite| Slovakia| Vol 21 - Issue 47
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Kenyan ASO, which has been delayed several times (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 50 and Vol 20 No 48), is apparently set to begin again. Francis Wangusi, director general of the Communications Authority of …
Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 21 - Issue 47
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AMD has announced a new driver for its GPUs and APUs that challenges Nvidia technologies. Replacing Catalyst 14.9, the Catalyst Omega driver is said to raise GPU performance by up to 19% on high-end …
Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| AMD| Chips| | GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 21 - Issue 49
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The Alienware Alpha PC gaming console (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 32) is now available in the USA, starting at $550. Although technically a Steam Machine, the device runs Windows 8.1 natively and boots …
Tags:| Large Display Monitor| Steam Consoles| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 47| Windows
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France’s 4Ever consortium has captured a basketball game and music concert (the Transmusicales music festival in Rennes) using the UltraHD Phase 2 format (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 35). These events tested the higher …
Tags:4k| France| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 21 - Issue 49
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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
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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
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