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Russian OTT Market Grew by 50% in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to data from TMT Consulting, the value of the online video market in Russia grew by 50% last year to 7.2 billion rubles ($124 million). As reported by Broadband TV News, Ivi was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| Russia| Vol 25 - Issue 11

DVB Needs to be More Open

by Bob Raikes

The DTG in the UK published a short summary of the recent DVB World 2018 event and said that it was clear that DVB needs to get beyond its traditional standards in the physical …

Tags:DVB| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 11

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AUO Developing MiniLED Backlights

by Bob Raikes

We recently saw reports from Taiwan that AUO has showcased a 27″ gaming monitor, a 15.6″ gaming notebook display and a 2″ VR display all based on miniLED backlight technology. We checked out the …

Tags:AUO| Direct Backlights| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 11

E Ink Teams Up with Papercast to Deliver Smart Signage to Japan Bus Stops

by Andrew Fenn

E Ink and Papercast have announced their partnership to deploy smart bus stop displays in Japan, piloting in Aizuwakamatsu city, 217 kilometres from Tokyo. The displays leverage E Ink’s ePaper solution and low power …

Tags:E Ink| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Foxconn Was the Top Smartphone Manufacturer in 2017 Q4

by Andrew Fenn

According to Digitimes, IDC Taiwan has reported that Foxconn beat Samsung to the number-one spot in the smartphone manufacture race during the fourth quarter of 2017, thanks to the release of the iPhone 8 …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Meo Launches Ultra HD Wireless Set-Top-Box

by Andrew Fenn

Portugal Telecom, operating as Meo, has launched an Ultra HD, wireless IPTV set-top-box, powered by the Microsoft-originated, Ericsson-owned operating system, Mediaroom. Meo customers with net speeds of at least 200 Mbps who subscribe to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Portugal| STBs| Vol 25 - Issue 10| Wireless

Max Planck Institute Shows Improved Hole Injection for OLED Devices

by Norbert Hildebrand

In the recently published article ‘Universal strategy for Ohmic hole injection into organic semiconductors with high ionization energies‘ by Naresh B. Kotadiya et. al. from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Deutsche Telekom Announces Digital Cable TV Switchover

by Andrew Fenn

Deutsche Telekom has confirmed that it will switch off its analogue cable TV service, according to Broadband TV News. A spokesperson for the company said that customers in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg will undergo a …

Tags:Cable| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Vestel and Vewd Add New HbbTV Standard to Smart TV Partnership

by Andrew Fenn

Vewd—previously known as Opera TV—and Vestel announced a multi-year contract renewal that will see more Vewd products delivered across the full range of Vestel televisions. This agreement will result in a deployment of smart …

Tags:HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 25 - Issue 10

KVMs Important in ATC

by Bob Raikes

The ATC industry, of course, has to have a lot of resilience and so KVMs to support duplicate and redundant systems are very important. There were several suppliers at the show and we spoke …

Tags:KVMs| Large Display Monitor| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 25 - Issue 10| World ATM Congress 2018

Wide Has Replaceable Backlights

by Bob Raikes

The smallest of the three display specialists at the World ATM event was Foreseeson of Korea which was showing monitors for ATC applications which it sells under its Wide brand. The company has been …

Tags:Air Traffic Control (ATC)| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 10| World ATM Congress 2018

Esterline Positive on French Success

by Bob Raikes

This was the first time that we have met with the ATC group at Esterline since the purchase of the division from Barco, although we have met at ITSEC and other shows. The company …

Tags:Air Traffic Control (ATC)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 10| World ATM Congress 2018