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HEVC Advance Announces ‘Royalty Free’ HEVC Software

HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced a major software policy initiative to rapidly accelerate widespread HEVC/UHD adoption in consumer ...

Medium to Distribute Barco CS-100

Barco has appointed Medium to distribute its ClickShare CS-100 in Germany.

Optoma sets the standard with its super flexible HDBaseT™ transmitter: 4K100TX

Optoma has launched its new HDBaseT™ transmitter: 4K100TX. Available now, the 4K100TX is compatible with all Optoma HDBaseT™ enabled projectors. It ...

New LCD Lines for Innolux

Innolux president JC Wang has said that the company will construct new G8.6 LCD facilties, entering mass production in Q3’15. Monthly ...

Christie Shows Fast Calibration Tool

One of the challenges in projection mapping applications is properly registering your projectors to the objects to be projected onto. Now ...

CCI Digital Signage Day Changes Venue to Cologne-Deutz

The venue for this year’s CCI Digital Signage Day has been changed to a larger one in Cologne-Deutz, due to the ...

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IDC Forecasts AR and VR to Reach $13.9 Billion in 2017

by Alan Spencer

IDC is forecasting that worldwide revenues for AR and VR will reach $13.9 billion in 2017, which is an increase of 130.5% over 2016 when the revenues were $6.1 billion. AR and VR spending …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 08

New Zealand Blocks Vodafone and Sky Merger

by Alan Spencer

The New Zealand Commerce Commission has refused to grant clearance for a merger of Sky Network Television and Vodafone New Zealand. The focus of the Commission’s assessment was centred on competition in both the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Monopolies (Anti Trust)| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Omate to Launch 4G Wearables Powered by Qualcomm

by Isaac Oburu

Omate announces its first 4G enabled smartwatch, the Omate 4G Video Call – O4VC – wearable platform powered by Qualcomm® Snapdragon Wear 2100 system-on-chip (SoC). The O4VC is a low power 4G always-on standalone …

Tags:Smartwatches

ARM and SMI Collaborate on VR at GDC

by Bob Raikes

We missed an earlier report that Arm and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) were planning to collaborate on demonstrating at the GDC that a combination of the latest Arm Mali G71 GPU and SMI’s technology is …

Tags:AR/VR| Arm| Gaze Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| SMI| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Online Advertising Revenue in China to Grow 14.3% in 2017

by Alan Spencer

According to IHS Markit, the online advertising market in China will grow 14.3% in 2017 mainly due to a strong growth in online video. IHS Markit also predicts that more than 75% of online …

Tags:Advertising| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 08

UDC Has a Good Year

by Yvette Raikes

Universal Display Corporation (UDC) posted Q4 net profit of $24.8 million, up from $18.1 million a year earlier, on turnover which rose to $74.6 million from $62.3 million. For the year there were profits …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UDC| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Orange Sees IPTV and DTH Growth in France and Spain

by Alan Spencer

At the end of last year, Orange had 8,483,000 subscribers for its IPTV and DTH services, which was 550,000 more than at the end of 2015. Strong growth was seen in France where figures …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 08

ShowMax Poland Launch Tops Netflix

by Alan Spencer

ShowMax clocked up over twice as many viewers on PC devices as Netflix on 15th February, the day of its first broadcast in Poland. Data produced by PBI/Gemius, shows that ShowMax had 172,000 viewers …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Poland| Vol 24 - Issue 08

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Frontier using SES for Service Delivery of Ultra HD

by Alan Spencer

SES’s managed Ultra HD distribution platform is being used by Frontier Communications Corporation to test 4K Ultra HD content delivery. Frontier is using the platform to move to Ultra HD delivery for its subscribers …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| North America| Satellite| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 08

The Samsung Galaxy S8 to be compatible with the Mirabook

by Bob Raikes

After its success at the CES in Las Vegas, Miraxess will be present at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 27th until March 2nd 2017. The French start-up releases its new partnership …

Tags:MWC 2017| Samsung| Smartphones

Samsung Introduces New Gear VR With Controller

by Milos Pavlovic

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the Samsung Gear VR with Controller powered by Oculus, the company first-ever Gear VR headset with a controller. The Gear VR with Controller expands Samsung virtual reality ecosystem …

Tags:Samsung| Virtual Reality