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Simplay Labs Announces Three New Services to Test and Validate Compliance to Key Video Standards

Simplay Labs®, LLC, a Lattice Semiconductor company and leading provider of compliance tools, standards and interoperability testing services for consumer electronics ...

Canatu Integrates with E Ink

When we met Canatu at CES, the company expressed frustration at the number of design wins that it has achieved, but ...

Phablet Sales Contribute to Smartphone Growth

Global smartphone shipments will grow until 2021, according to IDC’s updated forecast. 1.47 billion were sold in 2016 and this is ...

Samsung Unlocks The Walled Garden

Samsung held a big press event before the show started. We actually managed to get a seat at the Samsung press ...

LA Schools Ask Apple for Multi-Million Dollar Refund

It’s a bad time for iPads in education. First, schools began to favour Chromebooks over the expensive tablets – and now ...

Panasonic Deepens UNESCO Partnership

Panasonic has installed a full AV solution at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, in Room 1 – the centre’s largest conference ...

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Samsung & Platforms

by Raverstead

I thought that I had written recently about the topic that I wanted to cover today, but looking back through my recent 343s, it seems not! We have covered Samsung a lot in recent …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Shipment Milestone Reached by Maxlinear

by Raverstead

Maxlinear has now sold more than 10 million of its MxL608 DVB-T2 tuners worldwide. Demand has been strong in ‘all markets’ using the DVB-T2 platform, the company said.

Tags:Back Panel| DVB-T & T2| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tuners| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Stand-off Threatens ITA Talks

by Raverstead

The Information Technology Agreement, which defines tariffs on many technology products at 0%, has been threatened by a stand-off between China and South Korea. The ITA has not been updated since 1996, but there …

Tags:Duty| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Toshiba Rolls Out Massive Laptop Expansion

by Raverstead

Toshiba has rolled out a significant number of new laptops in the Satellite series, as well as two new additions to the Qosmio range. The products have 15.6″ or 17.3″ displays and range in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| toshiba| Vol 21 - Issue 48

USB Promoter Group Adds New Type-C Specifications

by Raverstead

New USB specifications have been released by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, and are now available to download from http://www.usb.org/developers/docs. They are USB Power Delivery v2.0 and USB Billboard Device Class v1.0 – said …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Supplies| USB| Vol 21 - Issue 45

MDM Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 44

by Raverstead

Acer describes the Aspire Switch 12 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 35) as a two-in-one notebook, rather than a hybrid tablet, because of its 12.5″ size. The product has 1920 x 1080 resolution, a …

Tags:Acer| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Samsung| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 44

High-Res Streaming Arrives on Amazon

by Raverstead

Amazon’s preparations (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 48) have now concluded. The company has launched UltraHD streaming on its Prime Instant Video service – although the service is currently only accessible on TVs, not …

Tags:4k| Amazon| Large Display Monitor| VOD in UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Swisscom Launches SVOD Service

by Raverstead

Switzerland’s Swisscom has launched a rival SVOD service to Netflix called Teleclub Play. The service offers films, TV shows, documentaries, sports and childrens’ programming for CHF12.90 ($13.20) a month. Around 5,000 titles are currently …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Switzerland| VOD| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Barnfind at Norwegian National Soccer Stadium

by Raverstead

Barnfind has installed a new fibre optic transport system to connect the Norwegian Nationals Soccer Stadium in Ullevål. The connection sends uncompressed video directly to TV Norge. As well as sending video back to …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Norway| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Fransat Commits to MPEG-4

by Raverstead

Fransat, the free-to-air French platform, will move all of its broadcasts to MPEG-4 by 2016. Any customers still using an SD receiver by this point will need to change to an HD- (and MPEG-4) …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| MPEG4 (H.264 MVC)| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Pay-TV Rises in Portugal

by Raverstead

Portugese regulator Anacom has said that there were about 3.3 million pay-TV subs in the country at the end of September. The figure represents a net addition of 46,500 QoQ (up 1.4%) and 132,000 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Portugal| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Taiwanese Makers Extend Focus

by Raverstead

Next year, AUO and Innolux will focus on high-resolution and wide viewing angle kiosks, IPC and white board applications, say sources in Asia. Display Daily Comments We saw medical panels from AUO at SID …

Tags:AUO| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49