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Parent company of DSE files for Chapter 7

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The organiser of the Digital Signage Expo, Exponation LLC in the US has gone into bankruptcy. What We Think This will be nowhere near the only casualty of the lack of …

Tags:Events| Reorganisation & Restructuring

Huawei to enter monitor market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei is to enter the monitor market to compete with Xiaomi and others. The standard monitors will be made by BOE Vison-Electronic Technology (BOEVT), an ODM arm of BOE Technology and …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Huawei| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

DVB considers future codec options

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The DVB (which coordinates the technical activities of broadcasters in Europe) has held a meeting to discuss the future of codecs. The codecs discussed were: AV1 (from the Alliance for Open …

Tags:Codecs| DVB| MPEG

At this point, 5G is a bad joke

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Experienced tech journalist, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, posted that really, 4G may be faster than 5G at the moment and it will take years for millimetre wave 5G to be widely available. …

Tags:5G| Smartphones

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Comcast confirms interest in putting X1 on smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Comcast is thinking about licensing its X1 video platform, used in its cable and broadband devices, to Smart TV makers. X1 is the base for the firm’s Flex platform for broadband-only …

Tags:Comcast| Operating Systems| Smart TV