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VR Threatened by Low Cost

Juniper Research said that nearly 60 million VR headsets using smartphones will ship in 2021, up from around 16.8 million this ...

Kindle Explores High-End Space With New Voyage

Amazon has surprised today with a refresh of its Kindle and Kindle Fire lines – without weeks’ worth of leaks, first. ...

BrightSign Unveils Complete Product Refresh Including Major Advances in Digital Signage Technology

BrightSign, LLC®, the global market leader in digital signage media players, today announced the first major overhaul of the company’s players ...

Strategy Analytics: Global Business Smartphone Sales Will Grow to 606 Million in 2020

According to the Strategy Analytics Mobile Workforce Strategies (MWS) latest report, “Global Business Smartphone Shipment Forecast Q4 2015,” the global Business ...

Parks: OTT Market Continues to Change

Parks Associates has forecast that global OTT revenues will rise from sub-$9 billion to more than $19 billion in 2019. In ...

BenQ Boasts of 100% sRGB Coverage

BenQ claims 100% sRGB colour coverage on its new Colorific DLP projector, the HC1200. A test pattern is embedded for more ...

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German AV to Top €10 Billion

by Tom Allen

Revenue generated by the German AV market will exceed €10 billion this year for the first time. The forecast comes from the Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Audiovisual Services in Germany (VPRT). VPRT expects …

Tags:Advertising| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| SVOD| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Omantel to offer IPTV based on du’s Technology

by Bob Raikes

Omantel said it would work with Du of Dubai to bring IPTV to Oman, using technology from Du.

Tags:Broadcast| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 42

360Heros Claims 360 Deg Camera Patent

by Bob Raikes

360Heros of the US said that it has been issued with a patent covering the multi-camera 360 video holding assemblies it has been developing. The firm said that US patent for invention number 9,152,019 …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 22 - Issue 42

Digital Projection Wows CEDIA with Insight 4K Projectors

by Chris Chinnock

Insight Media’s Chris Chinnock was asked by Digital Projection to give presentations about how to create great home theater images and to highlight DP’s two Insight projectors. On display were the Insight 4K Laser …

Tags:CEDIA 2015| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LED Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 42

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Touch Struggles on Notebooks

by Bob Raikes

IHS said that touch panel shipments for notebooks were down 7% QoQ in the second quarter at 4.6 million units according to a report in the CTimes. The total market in the first half …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Touch Market| Vol 22 - Issue 42

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

Biodegradable Displays?

by Tom Allen

Researchers have been investigating the creation of biodegradable electronics, in an effort to curb the rapid rise in toxic waste that the industry generates. Illustration showing a theoretical simulation of the distribution of the …

Tags:Environment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 43

Epson Shows Latest Projectors at CEDIA

by Chris Chinnock

Epson used CEDIA to update its line of 1080p projectors, but it did not update the 4K e-shifted, laser-phosphor-based model, the LS10000. The 1080p models use conventional transmissive LCD panels while the LS10000 uses …

Tags:CEDIA 2015| Epson| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 42

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Rumor: Amazon Working on AR Glasses

by Norbert Hildebrand

Rumors about the interest of Amazon in augmented reality have been circulating since Amazon received the US patent “Touch control for immersion in a tablet goggles accessory” (No. 9,158,15). This patent describes a method …

Tags:Amazon| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses