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Panel Suppliers Have Mixed October Results

AU Optronics reported October turnover of NTD30.4 billion ($966 million), up 4% YoY, resulting in year-to-date revenue of NTD267 billion ($8.5 billion), down 12.5%. Large panel shipments fell 5% MoM to 9.4 million, while small and medium shipments dropped 11% to 11.6 million. Hannstar saw its second highest monthly sales of NTD3.2 billion ($101 million), … Read more

Telus adds Netflix 4K to Optik TV

Telus of Vancouver, BC, Canada, said that it is releasing the Netflix app on its Optik TV 4K set top boxes, allowing users with a Netflix Premium subscription to stream 4K content directly from their Optik TV 4K set-top boxes. The Telus UltraHD content already includes TSN 4K, adrenaline sports On Demand (e.g., snowboarding, surfing … Read more

PTC and Unity Announce Strategic Collaboration

PTC and Unity Technologies said that they would collaborate on AR development to integrate PTC’s Vuforia AR platform with Unity’s game and experience development platform. The aim is to make content creation quicker and easier. Additionally, improvements to AR application performance are expected through planned optimizations to camera and rendering pipelines. “AR is amazing to … Read more

Atlona Introduces Flagship 4K Matrix

Atlona has added a new eight-input, four-output 4K HDMI and HDBaseT switcher designed for applications including videoconferencing, multi-screen presentations, and divisible room installations often specified for classroom, corporate or hospitality environments. The new matrix is equipped with five HDMI and three HDBaseT inputs, two HDMI outputs, and two HDBaseT outputs. It supports 4K/UHD peformance at … Read more

Smartphones Not Just From Apple & Samsung

The data website, Statista has compiled IDC’s data on smartphones to create a chart that shows how the smartphone market is slowly becoming less and less about Samsung and Apple. The companies have been broadly flat or down in volume over the last couple of years and in Q3 2016 saw their lowest combined market … Read more

Atlona Introduces Flagship 4K Matrix for Advanced Videoconferencing, Presentation, and Education Use

Adding a new member at the top of its line of commercial market AV matrix switchers, Atlona introduced the AT-UHD-CLSO-840, a versatile eight-input, four-output 4K HDMI and HDBaseT switcher designed for applications including videoconferencing, multi-screen presentations, and divisible room installations often specified for classroom, corporate or hospitality environments. The new matrix is equipped with five … Read more

Arclight Cinemas to Make Cinema History With Unique Presentation of Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

ArcLight Cinemas, a premiere movie-going destination, is excited to announce its collaboration with Christie® to bring the most advanced movie-viewing experience possible for ArcLight guests at the legendary Cinerama Dome, with the west-coast debut of Academy-award winning director Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, using rare and innovative cinema-projection technology. Beginning Thursday, November 10th, … Read more

Budgeting for Better In-Room Entertainment in 2017? vuTyme Delivers What Guests Want and Hoteliers Need

Hoteliers knee deep in budget season need to keep In-Room Entertainment top of mind for 2017. Recent studies show that guests want a better interactive TV experience while hoteliers want one that is more cost effective. vuTyme by ADB delivers a complete set of services like live TV, VOD, PPV, concierge, digital signage and targeted … Read more

Lowe’s Delivers Augmented Reality: Now Available on Aisle 3

Lowe’s is giving home improvement customers an entirely new way to see their homes through Lowe’s Vision, one of the first applications using Tango, a Google technology that enables computer vision software on your phone for augmented reality experiences. Using the app and the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the first Tango-enabled smartphone, customers can visualize … Read more