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Bosnia Ministry Issues New DTT Tender

The communications and transport ministry in Bosnia, has released an international tender for the supply of digital microwave links for the ...

E Fun is Ready for Term Time

E Fun has designed its new convertible tablet for the back-to-school season. The Nextbook Flex 11A runs Windows 10 on a ...

Radio City Installs Christie Projectors for Projection Mapping

Radio City Music Hall (RCMH) is big, and the US venue seats about 6,000 people for stage shows, concerts, and, perhaps ...

Jins Eyewear Reaches USA

Japanese company Jins is bringing its Jins Meme smart eyewear (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 21) to the US market. The ...

Upgrade Boosts Sony Battery to Two Days

Sony’s new Xperia E4 is an entry-level Android smartphone with a two-day battery life. A slight update from the Xperia E3 ...

Dimenco Acquired by KDX

Dutch 3D specialist, Dimenco, has been acquired by film specialist, Beijing Kangde Xin Composite Material Co., Ltd., (KDX) located in Bejing ...

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For Flexible Displays, We don’t need your stinkin’ OLEDs!

by Ken Werner

At the last SID Display Week, Merck and FlexEnable were enthusiastically promoting their cooperation in developing flexible LCDs, and in late July FlexEnable and Chinese LCD maker Truly announced the signing of a technology …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Merck| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Samsung Offers Shazam on Smart TVs

by Yvette Raikes

Samsung is now offering music app Shazam on the Smart Hub of its 2017 Smart TVs. Shazam allows the viewer to identify songs playing on TV shows or films using voice recognition technology. Once …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Smart TV| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Ströer Starts LED Network in Essen

by Bob Raikes

Ströer has installed seven new LED displays as part of a plan to eventually roll out a total of 20 displays. The local authorities conducted traffic reports for the areas where the displays were …

Tags:DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| LED| Stroer| Vol 24 - Issue 30

India Smartphone Market Readies Itself for Festive Sales

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that 28 million smartphones were shipped to India in Q22017, which was just modest 3.7 % QoQ growth and a “meagre” 1.6% YoY) increase. Just as the market had started to recover …

Tags:IDC| India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 30

UPS Uses HTC Vive for Training

by Bob Raikes

HTC has done a deal with UPS for its Vive VR technology to be used for training couriers at nine training centres in the US, starting next month (see the video below). Supply chain …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Nvidia Becomes Third Largest Fabless Chip Maker

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia went past MediaTek to get into third place in the ranking of fabless IC design companies published by Topology Research (part of TrendForce of Taiwan). Broadcom remained top with Qualcomm just behind. Nvidia …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Vol 24 #30 Product Round-Up

by Milos Pavlovic

Acnodes Corp of Chino, California in the US has announced a new panel mount monitor, the PMN80910, which has a 19″ 1280 x 1024 display with 350 cd/m² of output and with IP66 protection …

Tags:Game Playing| Industrial Monitors| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Notebooks| POS| ViewSonic| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Vol 24 #30 Product Round-Up

by Milos Pavlovic

EVGA has released the SC17 notebook PC, a new update that uses an Nvidia GTX 1080 GPU along with G-Sync on a 17.3″ UltraHD IPS display. The notebook can support up to 3840 x …

Tags:Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Accedo and Channel 4 Extend All 4 to Now TV

by Milos Pavlovic

Accedo, the video experience pioneer, has worked with British broadcaster, Channel 4, to extend its redesigned All 4 video on demand service to additional platforms, including Now TV on Roku. Accedo and Channel 4 …

Tags:Roku| Stream TV

Accedo and Channel 4 extend All 4 to Now TV

by Milos Pavlovic

Accedo of Sweden has worked with British broadcaster, Channel 4, to extend its redesigned All 4 video on demand service to additional platforms, including Now TV on Roku. The updated All 4, initially launched …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 30

U.S. mMVPD Subscribers Largely Pleased with Service Value

by Milos Pavlovic

According to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), though virtual pay-TV services are immature and years away from ‘five-9’ reliability, subscribers overwhelmingly consider service value to be very solid. In TDG’s Q2 Benchmarking …

Tags:Market Data| Pay TV

A Photoluminescent Display that also Harvests Ambient Energy

by Arthur Berman

A recent prototype demonstrates how, by replacing the phosphor screen in a Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) with a Luminescent Solar Concentrator (LSC), it becomes possible to harvest energy from ambient light as well as …

Tags:Phosphors| Solar Panels| Vol 24 - Issue 31