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Virtual Reality Headset Market Forecast CES Update

The VR AR space is a niche market at best, barely showing up as a rounding error in the recent CEA ...

SK Telecom is Working on 8k Encoding

SK Telecom is a major telco in South Korea, and signal transport was its main focus at MWC. This covered data ...

SiliconCore Improves LED Quality with ZACH Driving

SiliconCore said that it would show a new Z(Impedance) Adjustment for Color Homogeneity, ZACH, technology, that is claimed to improve the ...

Samsung’s Tizen SSSP 4.0 Displays Now Shipping

Samsung’s Tizen-based smart signage monitors in the PMF and PHF series that were announced around Infocomm, are now shipping in Europe. ...

AltBalaji OTT Offers Alternative to Mainstream Indian TV

Balalji Telefilms of India is launching AltBalaji, an OTT entertainment platform that aims to provide 300 hours of original shows in ...

ARRIS and Charter collaborate on WorldBox 2.0 development

ARRIS International plc and Charter Communications today announced plans for ARRIS to be a key participant in the development of WorldBox ...

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Skyworth and Tencent Bring TV Gaming Device to IBCShow

by Isaac Oburu

Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology Co. LTD., a leading set-top box and smart home solutions provider, today unveiled the miniStation – the OTT gaming console that is the result of its successful partnership with Internet …

Tags:Consoles| IBC 2016| Skyworth

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V-Nova Compression Integrated with Vimmi Distributed CDN

by Isaac Oburu

V-Nova Ltd., a global software IP company that delivers game-changing video and data encoding solutions, and Vimmi, the technology leader in distributed video delivery network platforms, today announced that V-Nova PERSEUS™ video compression has …

Tags:OTT Video| Video Processors

Smartphone Forecast Drops as Competition Builds

by Steve Sechrist

For the second time in three months market research firm IDC cut its smartphone forecast amid maturing world-wide markets as competitive forces continue to build in the space. New research released this week from …

Tags:Apple| Huawei| Market Data| Patents| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Daimler’s Zetsche Discusses Improvements Coming to Mercedes Cars

by Chris Chinnock

Daimler’s CEO Dieter Zetsche delivered a keynote address at IFA this year which focused on three new features coming to Mercedes automobiles. These include Office Manager, Fitness Coach and Personal Assistant. Office Manager is …

Tags:Automotive| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Toshiba Describes 2017 Line

by Chris Chinnock

Toshiba was at IFA to describe its new deal with Vestel (Vestel Wins Toshiba Brand for TV in Europe) and to show off the 2017 TV line, which should be ready by Q2’17. Planned …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| TVs (TV Sets)| Vestel| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Vestel to Mass Produce OLED HDR TVs

by Chris Chinnock

Vestel, the big Turkish TV brand and OEM supplier for Europe, used IFA to unveil plans to offer UltraHD HDR OLED TVs. The first sets at 55” and 65” should be ready for the …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED TVs| toshiba| Vestel| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Changhong Launches New HDR TVs

by Chris Chinnock

We stopped by the Changhong at IFA. We saw a lot of TVs, most of which were previously shown at CES 2016. This includes a line of curved OLED 65” HDR TVs that looked …

Tags:Changhong| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Newsflash – Hanjin Failure May Mean Bad Xmas for Samsung & LG Buyers!

by Bob Raikes

We don’t normally bring out a Display Daily at the weekend, but we thought you’d appreciate a ‘heads up’ on a big story that’s causing a buzz among those ‘in the loop’ at IFA. …

Tags:IFA 2016| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung| TV Set Market| Vol 23 - Issue 35

JVC Reveals Native 4K Projector at IFA

by Chris Chinnock

JVC used IFA to launch its newest home theater projector with a native 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution set of D-ILA imagers. These imagers are new too at only 0.69″ in diagonal – that’s …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2016| JVC| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 36

HbbTV to Merge with Smart TV Alliance – Mozilla Ends Firefox OS

by Bob Raikes

The HbbTV Association is merging with the Smart TV Alliance so that applications in the future will be able to use a single architecture. The two groups have started technical collaboration and will merge …

Tags:HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Smart TV| Smart TV Allance | Vol 23 - Issue 38

Alcatel Has Stand-Alone Headset

by Bob Raikes

Alcatel, now owned by TCL of China, is keen on VR and has multiple solutions. First, the company is supplying a ‘smartphone add-on’ (think Gear VR) headset for free with its Idol 4S phone. …

Tags:Convertible PCs| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| TCL| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 36

What we Learned (or Didn’t Learn) from IFA Press Days

by Chris Chinnock

The press day at CES is 1 day long – at IFA it’s two days. Bob Raikes and I attended this year and frankly, it is too much and the value is marginal. And …

Tags:Acer| IFA 2016| Samsung| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 35