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AR to Kill the Display Business?

Juergen Lumera of Bosch Automotive, where he is involved in technical documentation, started by saying its easier to get outsiders to ...

93% Are Impressed With Ultra HD TVs says Strategy Analytics

4K – Consumer awareness of Ultra HD or 4K TV is growing steadily, and 93 percent of those who have seen the ...

Google Play Adds HDR to UltraHD Movies

The Flatpanelshd.com blog site has been tracking HDR support from Google Play and now counts 42 movies as being available in ...

Paris Hotel Installs Video Wall for Guests

The Sofitel Paris Baltimore Tour Eiffel Hotel, has installed an experiential video wall to aid tourists and business people. Not only ...

UK “May” Give Up DTT

John Whittingdale, the UK’s Culture Secretary, has said that ‘the time may come’ when the country’s DTT spectrum is given over ...

General Dynamics Focuses on Fire Fighting VR Application

Last year at I/ITSEC, General Dynamic was just starting to develop a VR application to help with fire fighter training, especially ...

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Ocean Doubles Grid Network

by Tom Allen

Ocean Outdoor has doubled the size of its ‘Grid’ network – a portfolio of full motion city-centre screens – in the UK (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 36). There are now 14 screens in …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Ocean Outdoor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Sky Subscriptions Continue Upwards

by Isaac Oburu

Sky has recorded 177,000 new customers and 686,000 more products in Sky homes during the company’s fiscal Q3.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Sky| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Sony Will Host VR Ads

by Isaac Oburu

Sony has announced that Crackle (Sony Discusses Crackle at Next TV Summit) will also include VR-enabled ads. Advertisers will be able to place logos and integrate their own 360º ads. Sony announced this at …

Tags:Content Discovery| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Aten Supports UltraHD on KVM

by Isaac Oburu

Aten’s CS782DP KVM switch supports resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz. The device also enables access to two UltraHD-enabled USB computers from a single USB keyboard, USB mouse,and DisplayPort monitor.

Tags:4k| DisplayPort| KVMs| Large Display Monitor| Switchers| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Hannspree Goes Octa-Core in New Flagship

by Tom Allen

Hannspree’s newest flagship tablet is much larger than the average slate, at 13.3″. The Hannspad Titan 2 (SN14TP1B) replaces the original Titan. Unusually for a tablet, it features a mini-HDMI port as well as …

Tags:Hannstar (Hannspree)| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Tech Data Official Distributors of Microsoft’s Band 2 Wearable

by Isaac Oburu

Tech Data has been appointed as the sole B2B distributor for Microsoft’s Band 2 activity tracker. Tech Data will be collaborating with Microsoft to drive interest in the new device, particularly to support resellers …

Tags:Distribution| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| TechData| Vol 23 - Issue 16| Wearables

Clear Channel and Zurich Reaffirm Deal

by Tom Allen

Zurich Airport in Switzerland has extended its marketing contract with Clear Channel, for another three years. Clear Channel manages all of the 32, 46″ and 55″ displays in the airport, as well as two …

Tags:ClearChannel| Large Display Monitor| Switzerland| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Dish TV Down in Q1

by Isaac Oburu

Dish Network has released subscriber results for Q1 2016. The company activated approximately 657,000 gross new pay-TV subscribers, compared to approximately 723,000 in Q1’15. Net Pay-TV subscribers declined approximately 23,000, compared to a gain …

Tags:Dish Network| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 16

TiVo Records 27% Subscriber Growth

by Isaac Oburu

TiVo Inc. has announced that it has reached 7 million subscriptions for TiVo-enabled platforms deployed by operators in both North America and Europe, including Virgin Media, Vodafone Spain, RCN, Cogeco and Suddenlink. The growth …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Tivo| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Parade and Samsung Work on eDP OLED Tcon

by Tom Allen

Parade Technologies is working with Samsung Display, to deliver AMOLED panels for the tablet and notebook markets. Together, the companies developed the DP699 eDP timing controller (Tcon), which is used exclusively in SDC’s AMOLED …

Tags:AMOLED| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Parade Technologies Inc| Samsung| Tcons (Timing Controllers)| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Privacy a Real Stumbling Block for AR / VR?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Some time ago I wrote about the philosophical privacy issue that surround the augmented and virtual reality in general (How Private do You Think You are in a Virtual World? – subscription needed). In …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Oculus Rift| Privacy| Video Editing & Production| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 16

LeEco Provides Resolution Choice

by Tom Allen

China’s LeTV rebranded itself as LeEco earlier this year, marking a change in focus for the firm to both the environment and its ecosystem. Four new products have been revealed at an event in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LeEco (formerly LeTV)| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 15