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DOOH in Other Regions

Sikander AhmedYou may not realise it, but London leads the world in DOOH, said Cotterill at the start of the next ...

Lumileds Leaves the Philips Nest

Lumileds is now officially independent from Royal Philips, 80.1% of the company having been bought by Apollo Global Management, a private ...

Apple to Re-Enter Display Market

Apple did something very unusual (at least for Apple!) this week, by inviting a small group of journalists into the company’s ...

LG to Add Low End Phone at CES

According to the ET News in Korea, LG will have a new low end smartphone at CES. The 2018 K10 will ...

Two Keys to Optimal HDR TVs: Dynamic HDR Metadata and Tone Mapping

The Society for Information Display LA Chapter held its 14th annual One-Day Conference on February 3, 2017 at the Costa Mesa ...

Lithium-Sulphur Battery Technology from Fraunhofer

Four Fraunhofer Institutes, led by Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (Fraunhofer IWS), have recently completed a three year research ...

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NPD Expects 239 Million Connected TVs by 2019

by Milos Pavlovic

NPD said that it expects 238 million ‘installed’ devices to be connected to the internet and able to deliver apps to TVs in the US by 2019, 59% up from the number in 2015. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| NPD| Smart TV| STBs| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 50

NPD Partners with Tru Optik on OTT TV Data

by Bob Raikes

NPD said that it has made a partnership with Tru Optik, which claims to be “ the only audience measurement and data management platform built for OTT. Through the partnership, NPD will have access …

Tags:audience measurement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

SoftAtHome Used by Swisscom

by Bob Raikes

SoftAtHome said that its software is being used in customer premises equipment (CPE) from Swisscom, more precisely in the Internet-Box 2 home gateway. The box has seven antennae for otimised Wi-Fi and the box …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Switzerland| Vol 23 - Issue 50

You.i TV Goes Out-of-Box

by Bob Raikes

We met with You.i TV at IBC (You.i TV Wants to Exploit GPUs) and the company explained its approach to developing OTT services, using the power of GPUs and Adobe After Effects to develop …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Vimeo Updates Apps on HTML5

by Bob Raikes

Vimeo, the online video sharing service, has developed new apps for Apple tvOS, Android TV and Samsung SmartTVs based on HTML5. The new apps include a number of features, including: a ‘curated cinema experience’ …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Crestron Room Booking Includes Displays

by Bob Raikes

Crestron has launched a range of room booking systems that can connect to corporate scheduling systems such as Exchange, IBM Notes and Google Calendar and include touch displays with 7″ diagonal. There are also …

Tags:Crestron| Large Display Monitor| Meeting Rooms| Vol 23 - Issue 50

IDC Looks at A/R & V/R

by Bob Raikes

Not wanting to be left out of the slew of numbers about VR & AR, IDC has released some data. Worldwide AR and VR headset shipments are expected to see a CAGR of 108.3% …

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

Optoma Maps onto M&Ms

by Bob Raikes

Optoma has released a case study of a projection mapping application with M&M’s in the Leicester Square flagship store. There are two pods, where custom CG animations are projection-mapped onto blank M&M bottles. This …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Optoma| Projection Mapping| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Amazon Re-vamps Fire TV Interface

by Bob Raikes

Amazon has designed a new user interface for its Fire TV STB. The new interface includes video ‘snippets’ and trailers and Amazon said that it would add more content services in the longer term. …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

EU Agrees 700MHz Switch in 2020

by Bob Raikes

The main european institutions, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission, have agreed that the 700MHz UHF frequency band (694MHz-700MHz) will be made available for broadband wireless use by June 30th 2020, …

Tags:Broadcast| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 23 - Issue 50

French Start-Up Allows Real Pen & Pencil Input

by Bob Raikes

The Slate is a new drawing system developed by ISKN in Grenoble, France, that uses a special ring that is fitted to a traditional pen or pencil and uses magnetic tracking to digitise the …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 50