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Avnu Selects Brightsign Players

by Tom Allen

Avnu Digital has chosen Brightsign’s media player technology, to integrate with key displays from its product line. The bundled products are available now, through Avnu’s largest stocking distributor United Visual Products.

QED Takes Christie’s Boxer

by Tom Allen

QED productions has taken delivery of tthe first Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors in the UK. The projector is designed for rental and staging in large-venue events.

Acer’s Redesigned Switch 11 Boasts Snap Hinge

by Tom Allen

Acer has slimmed down its Iconia tablet series, with a new model called the Iconia One 7. Available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB variants, the tablet features a micro-SD slot that will accept cards …

Tags:Acer| Convertible PCs| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 31

EC Begins Pay-TV Antitrust Investigations

by Tom Allen

The European Commission has involved six major US film studios in an antitrust filing. A Statement of Objections (a formal step in EC violations into expected antitrust inquiries) has been sent to Disney, NBC …

Technicolor Acquires Cisco’s CPE Business

by Tom Allen

Technicolor and Cisco Systems have signed an exclusive agreement, which will see Technicolor acquire Cisco’s customer premises equipment (CPE) business – also known as the connected devices division. Technicolor will pay €550 million in …

Tags:Cisco| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Sling Media Introduces Next Generation TV Bundle Experience With Slingbox M2

by Tom Allen

Sling Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS), today announced the release of the Slingbox® M2 — a new entertainment experience designed to meet the ongoing shift in consumers’ television …

Tags:Mobile TV| TV Viewing

China’s NetDragon Launches Promethean Bid

by Tom Allen

Netdragon Websoft, a Chinese games developer and operator, has made a $130 million offer for UK-based interactive display vendor and education provider, Promethean. Netdragon’s chairman, Liu Deijan, confirmed the offer last month. Promethean says …

Matrox Wins a Best In Show for Mura IPX 4K

by Tom Allen

Matrox won a “Best of Show Award” from Sound & Video Contractor Magazine for its Matrox Mura IPX 4K capture and IP encode/decode boards, which were shown at Infocomm 2015.

Netflix Looks at China

by Tom Allen

Netflix has passed 65 million subscribers, adding 3.3 million in Q2 (0.9 million in the US, 2.4 million outside) compared to a forecast of 2.5 million, and almost double the 1.7 million added in …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 22 - Issue 30

AptoVision is the Silicon Driving New 4K AV over IP Products

by Tom Allen

We have covered Aptovision’s BlueRiver NT video transport system briefly before (VoIP from Aurora Multimedia and AptoVision), but Insight Media has written about the technology in much more detail recently. BlueRiver is an FPGA-based …

Tags:HDBaseT| Infocomm 2015| Transport| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Sky Deutschland Inks New Capacity Deal with SES for ULTRA HD

by Tom Allen

SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced today that the leading German and Austrian pay TV-provider Sky Deutschland has secured additional capacity for Ultra HD broadcasts on ASTRA at 19.2 …

Tags:Germany| SES| Sky| UltraHD (4KTV)

Mobile Payments: Awareness High, but Interest is Stagnant

by Tom Allen

Apple’s smartphone payment system – Apple Pay – was quietly launched in the UK in mid-July. Is it just a matter of time before we are all using smartphones as a digital wallet? Not …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Payment Systems| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 30