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Scottish Football Gets Two Giant LED Screens

Two LED video displays have been installed in Scotland’s national stadium, Hampden Park, in Glasgow. Daktronics was responsible for the 5.49m ...

Sanderson Returns to Lead Ingram UK&I

Matt Sanderson, formerly VP and MD of Ingram Micro Australia, has moved to the UK & Ireland division of the company. ...

Lack of PC Replacements Drove AIB Market

Jon Peddie Research states that the add-in graphics board (AIB) market increased in Q1’16, despite the overall PC market falling. AIBs, ...

LEDs Rule the Roost at ISE

As I write this, ISE has just ended and the Display Monitor team is gearing up to bring you the event ...

Liverpool DOOH Screen Hacked

One of the 18 DOOH screens in the Liverpool One shopping centre in the UK was attacked by hackers to read ...

Lessons From the High Dynamic Range Acquisition and Display Frontier

The SMPTE Fall conference kicked off with a pre-show symposium produced by The Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA). Much of what was ...

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Canatu Receives EU Funding

by Yvette Raikes

Finnish company Canatu has won €22 million ($24.8 million) in funding for R&D into its transparent conductive films and touch sensors, €10 being investments and the remaining €12 million a loan. The films are …

Tags:Canatu| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Dell

Dell Result 07/09/2016

by Yvette Raikes

Dell Technologies recorded Q2 net losses of $264 million, down on losses of $292 million a year ago, on turnover which went up 1% to $13.05 billion from $12.98 billion. For the first half …

Tags:Dell| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor

Alienware Gaming Notebooks Power VR

by Milos Pavlovic

Dell has launched gaming notebooks suitable for VR use under the Alienware brand. The new notebooks feature Nvidia GeForce GTX 10 series GPUs and are claimed to have 85% better performance than the previous …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Intel to Acquire Computer Vision Company Movidius

by Milos Pavlovic

Intel is to buy Movidius which is a specialist developer of SoCs for vision processing (Is AR the New Hope for 3D?). Intel wants the technology to be used in “augmented, virtual and merged …

Tags:Computer Vision| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 35| Vol 23 - Issue 36

European Netflix Development Stutters

by Milos Pavlovic

Vivendi has been developing a European version of Netflix, but according to the French paper, Liberation, the project has had its meetings suspended. The project was originally planned to exploit content from Canalplay in …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| VOD| Vol 23 - Issue 35

MTI Adds Dell to Portfolio

by Milos Pavlovic

Broadliner MTI has began distributing Dell video projectors which they hope will boost their turnover and margins.

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Ukraine| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Successful Travel Pilot leads to Rollout

by Yvette Raikes

Travel company Flight Centre Australia, wanted to enhance the “in-store experience”, and worked with TechMedia and Scala to find a digital signage solution, which needed to be robust, easy to use, scalable and able …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Retailers| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Russian Mobile Market Cautiously Up

by Milos Pavlovic

IDC said that there was some life in the Russian mobile phone market in Q2 as the market slowly recovers. Imports were nearly seven million units, up from less than five million a year …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Russia| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Apple

Foxconn Sends iPhones for Launch

by Milos Pavlovic

Chinese sources say that Foxconn consigned 371,000 units of the latest iPhones through customs in Henan province, China, for shipment in the US, UK, the Netherlands and Italy. Analyst Comment As we went to …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 36

NAGRA Adds anyCAST CONNECT to 4K Ultra HD Partnership with KT Skylife

by Isaac Oburu

NAGRA, a digital TV division of the Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S) and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, announced today that it has extended its content protection partnership with …

Tags:IBC 2016| Korea| Security| UltraHD (4KTV)

High Dynamic Range – the Other Eight

by Matthew Brennesholtz

I’ve written about high dynamic range (HDR) systems several times recently. Most of the focus has been on Dolby Vision and HDR10, primarily because content formatted for these two HDR systems is available in …

Tags:BBC| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| NHK| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Fitness is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for Wearables

by Bob Raikes

Shipments of wearable devices reached 22.5 million in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16) according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Despite a decline in shipments for one of the largest vendors, the …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 36| Wearables