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Cisco Encodes UltraHD Football

by Tom Allen

Cisco has said that it took part in the experimental UltraHD broadcast of the UEFA Champions’ League match on 6th June. Canal+ used Cisco’s Videoscale Anyres Live UltraHD encoders, to broadcast the content over …

Parks: OTT Market Continues to Change

by Tom Allen

Parks Associates has forecast that global OTT revenues will rise from sub-$9 billion to more than $19 billion in 2019. In the USA and UK, 57% of broadband households subscribe to such a service, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 25

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 25

by Tom Allen

Can’t forget the Tim Cook-alikes!Apple has a history of comedic openings for its WWDC keynotes, and this year’s was no different. Bill Hader stars as ‘director David LeGary’, who is orchestrating the most elaborate …

Tags:Apple| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Apple Builds Bigger, Better Ecosystem at WWDC 2015

by Tom Allen

Apple’s WWDC has been and gone again, but this year’s event was unlike those in the recent past – because there were no new product announcements. Instead, like Google at Google I/O in May, …

ISO Selects X-Rite for New Colour Standard

by Tom Allen

The ISO TC130 committee, which sets global standards for the graphic arts, has adopted the X-Rite Colour Exchange Format v3 (CxF3). CxF3 has been taken on as a new standard for colour data exchange …

Tags:Colour Certification| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Standards| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Ziggo’s Wrist Slapped Over Data Collection

by Tom Allen

Following a report by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP), Ziggo has stopped collecting its customers’ personal data. The company was collecting data using interactive services to learn about customers’ TV viewing habits. Such …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Security| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Android TV for Vestel

by Tom Allen

Vestel, one of the leading enterprises in Consumer Electronics Technology and Innovation, announces the adoption of the Android TV™ platform for its UHD TVs and Set Top Boxes. The new powerful TV and Set …

Tags:Android| Vestel

Google Smart Lens Kicks Off DAC 2015

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeGoogle’s glucose-monitoring contact lens was a prototype a year ago (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4), but was presented as a named product at the opening of the Design Automation Conference this …

Tags:Back Panel| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

New Component Boosts ViewSonic Colour Accuracy

by Tom Allen

ViewSonic’s three new LightStream DLP projectors feature a newly-designed colour wheel, providing accurate brightness and colour in ‘just about any’ lighting condition. Each of the new products – PJD7825HD, PJD7830HDL and PJD7835HD – have …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| ViewSonic| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Panasonic and NTT Work on 3D Broadcast

by Tom Allen

Panasonic and NTT are working together to develop ‘next-generational’ information systems – including the handling of 3D broadcast for sporting events. Panasonic’s shooting and 3D video processing technologies will be combined with NTT’s high-speed …

German Electricals Rise at Home and Abroad

by Tom Allen

Orders in the German electrical industry rose 5.8% YoY in Q2, according to trade association ZVEI. Domestic orders were up 2.7% and orders from abroad rose 7.1%. Customers from Europe increased their orders to …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Moto X: Biometric Security Called Into Question

by Tom Allen

Chinese website HellomotoHK has posted images that it claims are of the frame of the upcoming Moto X (2015) smartphone, from Motorola. Previous rumours had claimed that the phone would have a fingerprint sensor, …