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Sony DADC New Media Solutions Announces Plans To Add Dolby Vision To 4K Ultra HD Authoring Toolset

Sony DADC New Media Solutions (NMS) today announced plans to incorporate Dolby Vision™ technology into their Ultra HD™ Blu-ray authoring tools. ...

Adshel Promote Volkswagen Gesture Control at Australia Bus Stops

An interactive digital advertising campaign for Volkswagen’s new gesture control features has been implemented on the streets of Australia. Four motion-sensing ...

Smartphone Volumes Reach 341.6 million in the Q2 2017

Preliminary results from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, show that OEMs shipped 341.6 million smartphones worldwide in Q2 2017, ...

Parks Associates: Apple and Samsung Smartphones Widen Lead Over LG and Motorola

Parks Associates announced new research today in smartphone ownership showing that Apple and Samsung have widened their brand share lead over ...

Sumitomo Licenses UDC Technology

Universal Display Corp. (UDC) and Sumitomo Chemical have signed a new OLED Technology License Agreement, granting Sumitomo non-exclusive license rights to ...

Elo Brings Robust Touch to Curved Surfaces

Designed for the casino gaming industry, Elo’s newest touchscreen product is particularly interesting for its shape: it is curved from the ...

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Strategy Analytics UX Expert Review: ZTE Nubia Z17

by Bob Raikes

Strategy Analytics has made a review of the latest premium flagship smartphone from ZTE, the Nubia Z17, which comes with fashionable bezel-less design and high-end specifications for its hardware. The Nubia has a 5.5″ …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 37| ZTE

TVkey by NAGRA and Samsung Adds Forensic Watermarking with NexGuard

by Damir Lokas

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) company and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the market leader in home entertainment, have announced NexGuard as …

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Hispasat and MBS Collaborate on UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Hispasat and Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) in Germany have made an agreement to allow the teleport of MBS in Usingen, Germany, to be used to transmit UltraHD content to Hispasat satellites at 30º West. …

Tags:4k| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 35

HTC Registers Vive Focus Trademark in US & EU

by Andrew Fenn

Dutch tech publication LetsGoDigital has revealed that HTC has registered ” Vive Focus” as a new trademark in the US and EU for a product. It is believed that the new trademark refers to …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Opera TV is Now Vewd

by Bob Raikes

Opera TV changed its name and corporate identity at IBC (apparently we were not the first to suggest that we thought “Lewd, vewd” when we saw the new name!) and we met up with …

Tags:HTML5| IBC 2017| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 35

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Pixelworks Announces Restructure Following ViXS Acquisition

by Andrew Fenn

Following its acquisition of ViXS Systems in August, Pixelworks Inc. has announced plans to streamline the organization. A 15% reduction in workforce is expected across the firm’s development, operations, sales and administration departments, costing …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pixelworks| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 24 - Issue 35

TADF Symposium Attracts 150

by Bob Raikes

Unfortunately, the overload of IFA, IBC and Cedia meant that we were unable to get to a couple of other September events, including the 2017 International TADF Symposium in Frankfurt, hosted by Cynora. Cynora …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Kindermann Roadshow Coming to Football Stadiums Next Month

by Andrew Fenn

Kindermann has announced its upcoming technology and media roadshow, which will visit five football stadiums in Germany over a fortnight next month. The Kick & Show Kindermann Touch & Collaboration Roadshow is coming to …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Canon Unveils New Range of 4K Camcorders

by Andrew Fenn

Canon has been showing off three of its new professional camcorder models at the International Broadcast Convention in Amsterdam this week. Due for release in November 2017, the GX10 will retail at $2,499, the …

Tags:4k| Cameras| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 35

Boring iPhone X May Just be Revolutionary After All

by Steve Sechrist

While traveling this past week to LA, I ran into another house guest at my AirBnB. Anne, a millennial Muscovite who works in IT security and was well briefed on the new iPhone X. …

Tags:Apple| face recognition| Gaze Recognition| iPhone| Mobile Apps| Vol 24 - Issue 35

IFA & IBC Offer Different Views on the TV Industry

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this week’s editorial in the press room of IBC – the overload from IFA caused our production of the regular weekly issue to slip so, frustratingly, I have been head down over …

Tags:Broadcast| Editorial| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IBC 2017| IFA 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 34

RIP HID Lamps

by Matthew Brennesholtz

In honor of it’s 50th anniversary, Photonics Spectra conducted a poll of its readers. One of the questions was what technologies did the readers believe would be outdated or no longer in use a …

Tags:Back Panel| Lamps| Large Display Monitor| Light Sources & Lamps| Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 34