Office 2016 for Windows 10 is now available
by Bob Raikes
Office 2016 for Windows 10 is now available as part of an Office 365 subscription.
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Office Apps| Vol 22 - Issue 38| Windows
Samsung Goes for Design
by Bob Raikes
Click for more and larger imagesSamsung has added new “Serif” TVs designed by French designers, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, that is intended to be more “furniture like”. The sets are available in white, dark …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 38
Inventec to Notebooks for China’s Xiaomi
by Bob Raikes
The Taipei Times reports that Inventec is making Xiaomi’s first notebook PC which is expected to start shipments in Q1 or Q2 of 2016.
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 38| Xiaomi
Amino Booxmedia Cloud VOD for RTL Belgium
by Bob Raikes
Booxmedia of Finland, a member of the Amino group, has done a deal with RTL of Belgium to support an “end to end” cloud VOD platform. The new service will include transactional and subscription …
Tags:Belgium| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| RTL| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 38
MatrixStream OTT DVR Supports 4K
by Bob Raikes
MatrixStream of California, said that it is rolling out a turnkey OTT network DVR system that can support 4K IPTV content. The system is said to be able to scale to support large numbers …
Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 38
LG & SBS Test UltraHD via DTT
by Bob Raikes
LG is working with SBS, a broadcaster, to transmit UltraHD content over DTT in Korea, using the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. The companies said that they demonstrated transmission and reception of 4K UHD and …
Tags:4k| ATSC| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 38
ST to Lay off Staff in France?
by Bob Raikes
Click for larger imageReuters reports that French unions have said that STMicroelectronics is considering laying off up to 1,000 of its 1,100 staff in France. The staff are said to be working in the …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STMicroelectronics| Vol 22 - Issue 38
Yahoo To Launch New TV Streaming Device?
by Bob Raikes
Yahoo is reported to be considering releasing a streaming stick, while Google is expected to launch a new Chromecast stick next week that will make connections easier and add Chromecast Audio, which will allow …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| Vol 22 - Issue 38
EchoStar And Nagra Join for UltraHD Security
by Bob Raikes
Nagra (Kudelski Group) said that it has shipped anyCast Command security to EchoStar for production of 4K-capable set-top boxes for the companies’ joint clients. anyCast integrates both decryption and descrambling (previously in the CA …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Security| Vol 22 - Issue 38
Trends in the Ed Market: the 2015 Horizon Report
by Len Scrogan
This summer the New Media Consortium (NMC), together with the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), released their annual K12 Horizon Report, a report that is very informative for manufacturers and integrators in the display …
Tags:display technology| Education| Vol 22 - Issue 38
Why Don’t We Have High Frame Rate for Cinema and TV?
by Matthew Brennesholtz
Ultra-High Definition (UHD) TV has more than just more pixels. I see it as a four-legged stool, with more pixels as one leg, wide color gamut (WCG) as a second, high dynamic range (HDR) …
Tags:HFR - High Frame Rate| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 38
A Pivot for Portrait’s James
by Bob Raikes
We recently heard that there was to be a change at long-established display industry company, Portrait Displays. Founder and CEO, J. Michael James is retiring after more than twenty years and passing control to …
Tags:CRT| LCD Panels| Portrait Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 39
