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MS-TestPro, the First HDBaseT Touchscreen Tester, Reaches the Market

Media Solutions Ltd, a design house for media distribution solutions for the smart home and the AV industry, announced today the availability of the MS-TestPro, the first touchscreen test device for HDBaseT networks. The MS-TestPro provides an elegant, handheld solution for in-field testing of HDBaseT-based systems and cabling. With its built-in monitoring, logging, and diagnostics … Read more

HDBaseT Touchscreen Tester Available

Media Solutions has made MS-TestPro, a touchscreen test device for HDBaseT networks, available for $1395. It is a handheld device for in-field testing of HDBaseT-based systems and cabling, which has built-in monitoring, logging, and diagnostic capabilities, allowing for up to 100m of Cat5e (or higher) cabling. There are two versions, a touchscreen model and a … Read more

Canatu Receives EU Funding

Finnish company Canatu has won €22 million ($24.8 million) in funding for R&D into its transparent conductive films and touch sensors, €10 being investments and the remaining €12 million a loan. The films are flexible and 3D formable and the funding will also increase production capacity. The firm hopes to widen its customer base to … Read more

Alienware Gaming Notebooks Power VR

Dell has launched gaming notebooks suitable for VR use under the Alienware brand. The new notebooks feature Nvidia GeForce GTX 10 series GPUs and are claimed to have 85% better performance than the previous generation. The Alienware 17 has an option for support of Tobii’s eye tracking technology. The Tobii camera can detect the user’s … Read more

Intel to Acquire Computer Vision Company Movidius

Intel is to buy Movidius which is a specialist developer of SoCs for vision processing (Is AR the New Hope for 3D?). Intel wants the technology to be used in “augmented, virtual and merged reality, drones, robotics, digital still cameras and beyond”. The first Movidius chip was used in the Google Project Tango. Analyst Comment … Read more

European Netflix Development Stutters

Vivendi has been developing a European version of Netflix, but according to the French paper, Liberation, the project has had its meetings suspended. The project was originally planned to exploit content from Canalplay in France, Whatchever in France, Mediaset from Italy and Telefónica of Spain. However there have been changes in some of those services … Read more

Successful Travel Pilot leads to Rollout

Travel company Flight Centre Australia, wanted to enhance the “in-store experience”, and worked with TechMedia and Scala to find a digital signage solution, which needed to be robust, easy to use, scalable and able to be implemented in 2500 stores worldwide with a variety of screens from videowalls to 84″ 4K screens. In addition, the … Read more

Russian Mobile Market Cautiously Up

IDC said that there was some life in the Russian mobile phone market in Q2 as the market slowly recovers. Imports were nearly seven million units, up from less than five million a year ago. Since the fall of the Ruble in 2014, distributors have been very cautious, with cheaper phones being imported. “This proportion … Read more