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700MHz Discussion is Ongoing Across Europee

UK regulator Ofcom has described plans to clear DTT services out of the 700MHz spectrum by Q2 in 2020. Two documents ...

MSI & Dell to Go for Gaze

Taiwanese sources claim that MSI and Dell will join Acer in adding Tobii’s gaze recognition technology to products. Acer announced products ...

Visbit Claims 12K 360º video using Wi-fi or LTE

Visbit, a start up specialising in streaming 360º video, has said that it has shown that it can stream 12K 360º ...

Win an OLED TV From LG

LG and Invidis of Germany are giving away a 55″ curved OLED TV: specifically the brand new 55EG9109. Participation in the ...

HTC To Lead Virtual Reality Enterprise Sector With Vive Business Edition

HTC Corporation (“HTC”), a pioneer in innovative, smart technologies, has today announced Vive Business Edition (“Vive BE”) to capture the huge ...

Nintendo 3DS Found Not to Infringe 3D Technology Patent on Retrial

On Sunday, April 24, 2016, federal Judge Jed Rakoff in New York ruled that the Nintendo 3DS does not infringe a ...

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Dolby Discusses Strategy in Analyst Meeting

by Chris Chinnock

Dolby Laboratories invited a number of industry analyst to spend the day with them in San Francisco showing off technology and discussing their business. It was an open and informative day. First, Dolby is …

Tags:Dolby Analyst Day 2015| Dolby Atmos| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Vol 22 - Issue 51

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SMPTE Sets Up UK Region

by Tom Allen

SMPTE’s Board of Governors has formally approved the creation of the SMPTE UK Region. Bruce Devlin, chief media scientist at Dalet, has been appointed to serve as the new region’s first governor. The SMPTE …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Apple Names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer

by Isaac Oburu

Apple® today announced that Jeff Williams has been named chief operating officer and Johny Srouji is joining Apple’s executive team as senior vice president for Hardware Technologies. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide …

Tags:Apple| USA

getTV and Cine Sony Television Join DISH Lineup

by Isaac Oburu

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and DISH Network L.L.C have completed long-term carriage agreements for three of SPT’s wholly-owned domestic networks: Sony Movie Channel, Cine Sony Television and getTV. The agreements include first-time nationwide distribution …

Tags:Cinema| Dish Network

Hannstar & CPT Illustrate the Effects of “Fungibility”

by Bob Raikes

This week we feature two stories that highlight how far down CPT and Hannstar are on a year on year basis. That reflects a range of problems at the moment for the panel industry. …

Tags:CPT| Editorial| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Internet Speeds Rise for 4k Readiness

by Tom Allen

According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report, 15% of global IP addresses are now classified as ‘4k-ready’ (defined as 15Mbps speeds or higher) – almost triple that of the 5.3% in Q2. …

Tags:4k| internet| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 22 - Issue 51

LG Completes Internal OLED Sale

by Tom Allen

The sale of LG’s OLED lighting business to LG Display, from LG Chemical (LG Display Takes LG Chem’s OLED Business) has been completed. It is part of the move to consolidate all of LG’s …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Netflix Opts for ‘Per-Title’ Encoding to Save Bitrates

by Tom Allen

Netflix has announced a new system of compression called ‘per-title encoding’. This is not a new codec – the company will continue to use H.264 – but a new way of looking at different …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Apple Fills Vacant COO Spot

by Tom Allen

Jeff WilliamsApple has filled the position of chief operating officer – a post that has been vacant since Tim Cook became CEO in 2011. Jeff Williams, a former SVP, is the company’s new COO. …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Moving Towards a Powerline HDMI Spec

by Tom Allen

ETSI has published a technical report (http://tinyurl.com/po7yj4l) that analyses the benefits of powerline HDMI (PHDMI) technology for HD/UltraHD video transmission. The report aims to define the technical elements required to establish a PHDMI specification. …

Tags:HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PowerLine Networks| Transport| Vol 22 - Issue 51