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We Need a Definition for a High Dynamic Range Display

I am at the SMPTE Fall Conference in Hollywood, where I am learning all about the ecosystem for High Dynamic Range ...

AnyTiles from IAdea wins Tsai Ing-wen Award

Presented by the Taiwan president, IAdea’s AnyTiles won the Tsai Ing-wen digital signage award. The system is a video wall technology ...

Tablets and Ultrabooks Became ‘30% More Affordable’ in 2014

Tablets and ultrabooks became more affordable in emerging markets last year, says ABI Research. The ASPs of these products fell 7.8% ...

Amimon’s Latency-Free HDMI Replaces Analogue for Drone Racing

Image: The IndependentAmimon is a company specialising in latency-free wireless HD video transmission (the technology is called Connex), and has now ...

Beamr Acquires Vanguard

Israeli company Beamr, a specialist in video compression whom we have reported on before, has announced that it is acquiring California-based ...

Epson, InFocus and Aaxa Lead in February

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in February. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico ...

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EU Cable Will Grow Despite OTT – IHS

by Bob Raikes

IHS released data about the development of the cable industry in the EU and prepared in collaboration with Cable Europe, the European cable trade association. Key findings from the 2015 yearbook include: Gross cable …

Tags:Broadcast| Cable| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

EU Cable TV Continues to Grow Despite OTT Competition

by Milos Pavlovic

The cable industry in the European Union has continued to grow amidst increasing competition from traditional and Over-The-Top (OTT) players, according to a report released today by IHS Markit, a world leader in critical …

Tags:Europe| OTT Video| TV Viewing

Lenovo’s Flexible Phone and Tablet Shown at Lenovo Tech World 2016

by Arthur Berman

At the recent Lenovo Tech World 2016 held in San Francisco, Lenovo showed two next generation prototypes based on flexible display technology. The first prototype was called CPlus. It is a conceptual smartphone / …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Smartwatches| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 50

BMW to Show the HoloActive Dashboard Interface at CES

by Arthur Berman

BMW has announced that it will debut the so-called HoloActive Touch system at CES 2017. Described by its creator as “an innovative operating concept for the interior of the future,” it is the latest …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

JCDecaux Combines Sliding LED with Backlit

by Bob Raikes

JCDecaux has installed an unusual display configuration at Changi Airport, Singapore, Terminal 2. A 40m² 4.8mm pitch LED display is designed to slide in front of two 33m² backlit poster displays. The advertising designers …

Tags:DOOH| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 50

JC Decaux Wins Irish Transport Authority

by Bob Raikes

JCDecaux has signed a five year contract with the National Transport Authority of Ireland. The company will take over the advertising rights and maintenance related to 1,843 existing bus shelters and 3,726 advertising panels. …

Tags:DOOH| Ireland| Large Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Vivitek Appoints Karma in the UK

by Isaac Oburu

Vivitek has appointed Karma AV to distribute its home cinema solutions in the UK. Vivitek has also trained Karma AV on the new home cinema projector, H5098, that is expected to launch soon.

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

So What is Y-OCTA?

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is lining up to launch its next smartphone (which forecasters are calling the ‘S8’) and last week we saw a report that it would use a touch technology called ‘Y-OCTA’, used in the …

Tags:IHS Markit| Touch| Vol 23 - Issue 50

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New UHD Travel Channel will Use HLG

by Bob Raikes

SES said that Travelxp 4K will use the SES-1 satellite in North America from January, bringing the total of UltraHD channels being broadcast by SES to 30, 21 of which are commercial. Interestingly, the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Satellite| SES| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Google Launches Android Chrome WebVR Support

by Bob Raikes

Google has launched support for the WebVR APIs in Android, via support in the Chrome browser, which should mean support for users of Cardboard or DayDream compatible devices. There is a website for developers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Samsung To Show ‘QLED’ at CES

by Bob Raikes

A report from the Maeil Business News suggests that Samsung will show a “new type of self-emitting UHD LCD TV powered by quantum dots” at the upcoming CES event. The report also suggests that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 50