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No One Company Rules PMA’s January Projector Data

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

UltraHD for $100 With Amazon

Amazon has been active in the TV STB/dongle space for more than a year now, and is stepping up its game ...

Russia’s NTV-Plus to Embrace MPEG-4

Russian satellite TV operator NTV-Plus has announced that it plans to convert all of its remaining MPEG-2 channels to MPEG-4 between ...

Nvidia Shield Can Now Stream 4K Movies

The Nvidia Shield box has received an update that enables it to stream 4K movies from the Google Play Movie store ...

3D Globe in Stockholm

Projection mapping is being used to show live data tracking flights to and from Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden, on a ...

IHS: Flexible AMOLED Capacity to Exceed Demand by 44% in 2018

With flexible AMOLED panel fabs building at a quicker pace than global demand, supply capacity of flexible AMOLED panels is forecast ...

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Can’t Stop Drinking the QD “Kool-Aid”

by Barry Young

The many reports of Quantum Dots (QD) saving LCD TVs from the emergence of AMOLEDs tend to superficially use the extended color space and the higher luminance of LCDs as their key arguments. There …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| LCD displays| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 26

SMPTE Presents HDR Workflow

by Tom Allen

Raymond Yeung will join as a guest speakerSMPTE will run a webcast on the 14th July dealing with HDR. Specifically, the event will present a workflow system for mastering HDR content for theatrical and …

Tags:Back Panel| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| Vol 23 - Issue 26

ITU Builds on Rec.2020 With HDR Standard

by Tom Allen

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has developed and published a new HDR standard (aka Recommendation) for television broadcasting. The standard was developed by the ITU’s Radiocommunication sector (ITU-R), working with industry stakeholders. It builds …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| ITU| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 26

IT Market Growth Shrinks

by Tom Allen

The European IT Observatory (EITO) has published a report on the growth of the European ICT market. Following strong (3% YoY) growth in 2015, EITO expects a slowdown in 2016. Revenues are projected to …

Tags:Europe| it| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 26

ICDM Schedules HDR Meeting

by Tom Allen

The SID’s International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) has arranged a three-day meeting at Samsung Electronic’s San Jose facility, from the 28th – 30th September. The meeting will focus heavily on HDR display metrology …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| ICDM| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 26

HTC Closes in on 80,000 Units

by Tom Allen

SteamSpy, Valve’s data collection service which collects data from every Steam user, has been used to estimate the HTC Vive’s user base. Each Vive is supplied with a game called Job Simulator, which provides …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Wuaki Experiences Fast Growth

by Tom Allen

SVoD service Wuaki.tv has added 500,000 subscribers in Spain during the first six months of the year – taking its customer base to 2.5 million. It is the highest increase for Wuaki since it …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Spain| SVOD| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Pay TV Rises Slowly in Spain

by Tom Allen

Almost 27% of Spanish homes subscribed to a pay TV service at the end of 2015, said regulator CNMC. This is up from 21.2% at end-2014. However, 70.8% of viewers said that they were …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Spain| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Leader Will Attend Tech Retreat

by Tom Allen

Leader Europe will be at the HPA Tech Retreat on the 13th-14th July. The company will demonstrate its LV5490 waveform monitor and HDR suite of production and test tools at the event, in Oxfordshire. …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Scala Promotes Harry Horn

by Tom Allen

Scala has appointed Harry Horn as VP and general manager of the EMEA region. Horn, who joined Scala in 2010, will oversee the sales, marketing, finance, services and support and daily activity of Scala’s …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Scala (now Stratacache)| Vol 23 - Issue 26

The Clubhouse Chooses Multitaction

by Tom Allen

The Clubhouse is a new business venue that has recently opened in London, with a Multitaction iWall. The 3×3 interactive wall can be used to review and manipulate data.

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Signage| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Video Walls| Vol 23 - Issue 26

BlackBerry

Android Handsets Coming From Blackberry

by Tom Allen

Blackberry is set to launch three new Android smartphones to join the existing Blackberry Priv, says VentureBeat. First is the Neon: a 5.2″ midrange model with an aluminium frame, Snapdragon 617 SoC, 3GB of …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 26