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Peerless Outdoor TVs Now in UHD

Peerless-AV in the US has announced the latest line of all-season outdoor TVs, the UltraView UHD Outdoor TV. The TVs are ...

Gaming Monitors that Don’t Tear or Stutter

Professional Monitors – At PEPCOM’s Holiday Spectacular, a press-and-analysts-only show held on September 29 at the Metropolitan Pavilion on New York City’s ...

High-Res Streaming Arrives on Amazon

Amazon’s preparations (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 48) have now concluded. The company has launched UltraHD streaming on its Prime Instant ...

NCR Wins Big in US QSR

NCR in the US has won a contract to supply digital signage to company-owned stores in the Bojangles Southern US fast ...

Scania Offers Scania Watch to Customers

Scania, the truck company, is typically not a name that often appears in our news coverage. However, the company has now ...

Sky Creates ‘Biggest Movie Service’ in Europe

Sky will relaunch its Sky Movies service as ‘Sky Cinema’ on the 8th July. It is described as ‘the biggest dedicated ...

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Brazilian Tender is Criticised

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Anatel, the Brazilian communications regulator, has opened a tender to provide mobile broadband services in the 700MHz band. The frequency is currently used for broadcast services. In response the Association of Brazilian broadcasters (Abert) …

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DisplaySearch: Q2 UltraHD Shipments Beat All of 2013

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More UltraHD TV sets were shipped in Q2’14 than throughout all of 2013, says NPD DisplaySearch: 2.1 million, compared to 1.6 million. Most brands introduced their 2014 UltraHD TVs at this time, pushing the …

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Hitachi Europe Names New Managing Director

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Hitachi Europe has named Kazuo Abe as its new managing director. He succeeds Kiyoshi Yamamoto who has been appointed senior project manager, Urban & Energy Solutions Division, Infrastructure Systems Company, Infrastructure Systems Group in …

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Pixels Helps Bring About the Digital Revolution

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Pixels, a European distributor of digital media players and AV systems, supplied 50 BrightSign media players for the Digital Revolution exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre. Digital Revolution is described as an immersive exhibition of …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Museums & Exhibitions| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

QD Vision Bullish on TCL Demo

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QD Vision was at IFA on the booth of one of its customers, TCL of China. TCL was showing a 55″ prototype TV using the QD Vision technology to give >100% NTSC colour gamut …

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DTG Tests D-Book 7 v4

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The UK’s DTG Testing is now trialling the functionality of the D-Book 7 v4. Updates have been released to the organisation’s MHEG test suites, under the ‘beta’ status; this means that test suite licensees …

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Samsung Announces UHD Content Deals with Amazon

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CES 2014, Samsung announced it was working with Netflix and Amazon to deliver original UHD programming to Samsung UHD TVs. In March, Netflix began streaming “House of Cards” in 4K to Samsung and other …

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Absen and PSCO to Partner at PLASA 2014

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LED display manufacturer Absen Optoelectronics will be exhibiting with PSCo at PLASA 2014, which takes place in London from 5th to 8th October. Attendance at the event forms part of a European Roadshow by …

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BDA Pushes Adoption of New Display Technologies

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We knew it was coming. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced at IFA that it was ‘most of the way done’ with defining a specification enabling the format to handle UltraHD imagery. Chairman Victor Matsuda …

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Intel’s Core M Shown at Showstoppers

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Always a big event at IFA, Showstoppers this year was again a great place to go for food, drink and networking. Oh, and a few new products! The showcase takes place in Hall 15 …

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Himax to Develop AR Glasses With Optinvent

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Himax Display, which manufactures LCOS microdisplays for Himax, is to enter a partnership with Optinvent – producer of the Ora Smart Glasses. The companies will aim to produce ‘next-generation’ AR glasses, using Himax’s LCOS …

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B&O Hopes to Move You…to a Larger Size

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Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 19), Bang & Olufsen launched its new Beovision Avant 55 TV: ‘The one that moves’. Designed to fade into the background of the room when not …

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