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Netflix Overhauls Cable Pay-TV in the US

Netflix has doubled its US subscriber base in the past five years and reached this milestone in the first quarter of ...

Ceatec Shows What’s Big in Japan

Ceatec, which took place in Japan earlier this month, is always an interesting show to see what the Japanese companies are ...

Foxxum and Cultraview sign Smart TV Pre-integration Deal

Foxxum of Germany has done a deal with Cultraview of China, said to be the world’s leading TV mainboard maker, to ...

Connected TV use up 50%

US consultancies, Conviva and nScreen Media said that its latest research, based on looking at more than 20 billion OTT streams ...

Windows 10 On Track for Autumn

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner told The Nikkei newspaper that Windows 10 will be released in autumn 2015. The new OS is ...

Grand Opening of the Crestron Design Showroom in South Florida

On July 28th, Please join us for the grand opening celebration of our new Crestron Design Showroom in the DCOTA building ...

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ECR Less Interesting than Prior Years

by Bob Raikes

This impressive projection mapped display welcomed delegate at ECR 2017. I’m not sure that the skull gave the kind of positive message, but delegates are mainly radiologists, so may see it differently! Image:MekoThe ECR …

Tags:Dicom Medical Calibration| ECR 2017| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Vol 24 - Issue 09

New Materials Developed with Potential for Multi-Color OLEDs

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Professor Youhei Takeda of the Department of Applied Chemistry within the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) have created multi-color MechanoChromic Luminescent (MCL) materials that …

Tags:Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Oculus Slashes Prices for the Rift VR Headset

by Norbert Hildebrand

Oculus / Facebook announced that they are lowering the price of their headset Oculus Rift to $499 and the controllers Oculus Touch to $99. This is a $200 price cut over the prices of …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Pricing| Vol 24 - Issue 09

LG to Launch Steam-based VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

At the Game Developers’ Conference (GDC), SteamVR said that LG is working on a new headset that will use the SteamVR platform. A prototype headset shown at the event used a 1440 x 1280 …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09

MWC Lively, but Not Much in Displays

by Bob Raikes

This week’s MWC was a bit of a disappointment from a display and handset point of view. It’s usually the place that Samsung launches its latest flagship smartphone, but the Note7 debacle meant extra …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Power Is Nothing Without Batteries

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this editorial on the plane on the way back from the MWC event in Barcelona. My tablet is having to be used with its ‘hunt and peck’ keyboard. Although I’m usually very …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 08

ClearLED Enjoying Retail

by Bob Raikes

GWS said that it is getting a good response to its ClearLED displays which are being used by Zara and McDonald’s. The LEDs are bright enough for use all day in shop windows, but …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Complex TV Production to be Democratised?

by Bob Raikes

A company called Cinamaker has said that it would show a multi-camera video streaming technology that is claimed to allow the easy creation and broadcasting of multi-camera TV shows at SXSW. A tablet can …

Tags:Broadcast| Content Creation| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

New VR Motion Scheme Proposed

by Bob Raikes

At the GDC, a company called Survios said that it has developed ‘Sprint Vector’, a new game using a special way of moving in VR applications that avoids breaking the ‘suspension of disbelief’ from …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

The Pixel 2.0 is a Tiny OLED Display System

by Bob Raikes

The Pixel 2.0 is a new tiny OLED screen (1.5″ with 128 x 128 resolution) that is built around an Arduino and can be programmed to produce graphics. The display is available on Kickstarter …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Twitter Signs Agreement to Live Stream Esports Tournaments

by Alan Spencer

Twitter has signed an agreement with two esports companies, ESL and DreamHack, to live stream events and original content, with all events available globally. During 2017, more than 15 events will be live streamed …

Tags:Back Panel| eSports| Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Deutsche Telekom Sees Growth in IPTV

by Alan Spencer

Deutsche Telekom’s Entertain TV, its domestic IPTV service, saw an increase in new customers to 196,000 last year, and saw a total customer base increase of 7.3% to 2.88 million, compared to 2015. The …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 09