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Satellite in 91% of TV homes in Middle East and North Africa

Eutelsat announced the headline results of its 2016 TV Observatory in Middle East and North Africa and gave these key conclusions: Satellite consolidates place as core digital infrastructure, reaching into 91% of TV homes (56.1 million) Eutelsat/Nilesat 7/8° West neighbourhood first choice for multi-channel viewing: offers broadcasters access to 52.3 million homes in 14 Arab … Read more

LRG Says US Pay TV down 255K in Q3 2016

Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) said that the eleven largest pay-TV providers in the US — representing about 95% of the market — lost about 255,000 net video subscribers in 3Q 2016, compared to a loss of about 210,000 subscribers in 3Q 2015. The top pay-TV providers account for 93.65 million subscribers — with the … Read more

NAB Show NY: HDR and VR

The NAB Show New York was held at the Javits Convention Center on November 9 – 10 and focused on broadcasters and content creators in the New York region and beyond. The show is not strictly a local affair, with 1,112 registered attendees from 87 countries compared to the total registered attendance of 15,404. 2016 … Read more

iiyama Expands LFD Range with 65” Multi-touch Display

iiyama, one of the leading providers of high quality professional displays, has announced an expansion of its large format display (LFD) range with the multi-touch ProLite TF6537UHSC-B1AG, a slim yet robust, ‘zero bezel’, edge-to-edge 65” 4K display designed for continuous operation. The ProLite TF6537UHSC-B1AG features a high quality IPS panel guaranteeing exceptional color accuracy, high … Read more

Volanti California Integrates BrightSign Media Player

Volanti’s 4K Ultra-HD touchscreen monitors are available in 55″, 65″, 84″ and 98″ sizes designed for corporate and digital signage applications. The BrightSign XT media players support very complex HTML5 based interactive digital signage applications with up to 4K 60Hz HDR video and the option of incorporating a live video or live TV feed. The … Read more

AptoVision Expands BlueRiver NT+ Series of AV-over-IP Chipsets

AptoVision™ today announced BlueRiver™ NT1000, the latest product in AptoVision’s BlueRiver NT+ Series of AV-over-IP chipsets, which remain the world’s only chipsets to transport uncompressed, zero-latency Ultra HD/4K HDR over Ethernet. BlueRiver NT1000 delivers all the advanced IP-switching and extension capabilities AptoVision is known for, while reducing the bill of material costs for AV over … Read more

Electronica 2016 Round-up

AlphaDisplay of Korea was at the show to highlight, in particular, its developments in medical displays. To help promote that vertical segment, Alpha has recruited from fellow Korean company, Kostec, which is a specialist in medical displays. Alpha already has a European facility in Sofia, Bulgaria, and is opening another in Bratislava, Slovakia in Q1 … Read more

Fraunhofers Have MEMs and OLED Microdisplays

The various Fraunhofer institutes had a big stand that represented all of them. First we looked at an unusual MEMs-based scanning projection system that uses biaxial mirrors with Lissajous scanning rather than rows or columns and could be used for a range of applications. However, the researchers told us, that a problem with this kind … Read more

BOE’s Varitronix Has Free Form Display for Automotive – Gets to 1600ppi!

Chinese panel maker, BOE was at the show with its European business, Varitronix, which is long established in the European automotive business and was bought by BOE in May of this year to give the firm a quick entry into the automotive field. The first display we looked at was a 12.3″ curved “free form” … Read more

Kyocera Experiments with Haptics & Gesture for Autos

Kyocera started by showing us a demonstration of an ASIC that it has developed to allow haptic feedback, using piezoelectric actuators. Especially in automotive and industrial applications, it is important that the user has a clear indication of functions. The ASIC allows up to 16 levels of intensity to be applied to deliver a range … Read more

OrtusTech Moves to Low Power

Ortustech, owned by Toppan and a company that has developed from the old Casio display business, usually shows some exotic high resolution displays at Electronica, but this year, as the market for the UltraHD 9″ has not yet developed, the company left it at home. At the show, there was an emphasis on new technoloogy, … Read more