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HEVC Advance Eliminates Content Distribution Royalty Fees

by Damir Lokas

HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, announced that it has eliminated “subscription” and “title-by-title” content distribution from the HEVC Advance Patent License in an effort to further accelerate HEVC adoption and support streaming, cable, …

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Vestel and Vewd Add Newest HbbTV Standard to Smart TV Partnership

by Damir Lokas

Vewd, the global market leader in enabling OTT, and Vestel announced a multi-year contract renewal that will see even more Vewd products delivered across the full range of Vestel televisions. This agreement will result …

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HDBaseT Alliance Becomes an Affiliate of Worlddidac

by Damir Lokas

The HDBaseT Alliance, the cross-industry group tasked with promoting and advancing the HDBaseT standard, has become an affiliate of Worlddidac, the global trade association dedicated to the development of education worldwide. As an affiliate, …

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It’s Not Too Late to Get Your Demo in Front of 7K+ at Display Week 2018 in L.A. – I-Zone Deadline Extended to March 23

by Damir Lokas

Attention: Inventors, Scientists, Researchers, Start-ups, Small Businesses and Universities! Do you have a cutting-edge recently launched product, prototype or demo that will take the display industry by storm? If so, we want to know …

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Optovate Ltd Announces Disruptive microLED Technology

by Damir Lokas

Optovate Ltd. (Oxfordshire, UK), the microLED optical specialists, announce that they have realised a microLED technology that enables multiple microLEDs transferred in parallel from a wafer to a substrate to be aligned in one …

Broadcom Calls Off Qualcomm Bid

by Milos Pavlovic

Broadcom called off its bid for Qualcomm after President Trump said that it should not go ahead. Trump cited concerns over national security (Broadcom is currently based in Singapore, but had said that it …

New Thunderbolt 3 Dock Supports Dual Monitors

by Bob Raikes

StarTech has introduced a Thunderbolt 3 docking station that supports dual 4K displays, one through a DisplayPort output and another via a ThunderBolt interface. It can also support a 5K display. As well as …

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Midwich Group Result 13/03/2018

by Vijaya

Midwich plc of the UK reported £471.9 million ($660.66 million) revenue for the fiscal year 2017, a 27.5% increase compared to £370.1 million ($518.14 million) reported in 2016. Profit after tax was £13.9 million …

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IDC: Africa Smartphone Market Declines Despite Strong Performance of Region’s Biggest Markets

by Andrew Fenn

Africa’s smartphone market experienced a quarter-on-quarter decline of 6.4% during the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the latest insights from IDC. The new data shows smartphone shipments were down to 20.3 million units …

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Pay TV subscribers at Major US Providers Down ~1,495,000 in 2017

by Damir Lokas

Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) found that the largest pay-TV providers in the US — representing about 95% of the market — lost about 1,495,000 net video subscribers in 2017, compared to a pro …

LRG: Pay TV Subscribers at Major US Providers Down in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

Leichtman Research Group has found that the largest pay TV providers in the US—representing about 95% of the market — lost about 1.5 million net video subscribers in 2017, compared to about 760,000 in …

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Google to Present on HR OLEDs at SID

by Bob Raikes

Last year at SID, Google’s Clay Bavor gave a keynote in which he said that Google was working on systems with 20 megapixels per eye and drew gasps from the assembled engineers. At this …