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Sky Deutschland’s Sky Sport Bundesliga UHD and Sky Deutschland will launch on Astra (19.2 degrees East) in autumn 2016 making the two UltraHD/4K channels available for DTH households. Sky Sport Bundesliga UHD will be showing select Bundesliga matches while Sky Deutschland will air live UEFA Champions League.
FOR-A today announced it will showcase a variety of its cutting-edge technology solutions and new products under the continued theme, “FOR-A World of Possibilities”at the upcoming IBC 2016 tradeshow September 9-13 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre on Stand #2.A51 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Visitors to the FOR-A stand will see the ever … Read more
At Touch Taiwan this year (24th-26th August), AUO is showing both large and small panels, with highlight technologies including fast refresh rates, narrow borders and AMOLED. LTPS technology is being used in smartphone and notebook panel applications, with high resolutions and narrow borders. One of the products is a 5″ 1920 x 1080 AHVA smartphone … Read more
Elko, a Russian distribution company, will distribute Lenovo notebooks in Russia.
The venue for this year’s CCI Digital Signage Day has been changed to a larger one in Cologne-Deutz, due to the high number of registrations. The one-day event will be held at Hotel Dorint An der Messe Köln on 30 August 2016.
The acquisition of Ingram Micro by China’s Tianjin Tianhai (a division of the HNA Group) has been delayed. The date that the deal must be completed by has been extended to the 13th November 2016. The extension will provide more time for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review the … Read more
Sharp’s Tai Jeng-wu (left) and Foxconn’s Terry Gou (right). Image: Nikkei.Japan’s Sankei Shimbun and Nikkei Shimbun quote Sharp president Tai Jeng-wu as saying that he will cancel a base and managerial salary reduction at the company, in an effort to raise employee morale. Tai will also forgo his salary as a member of Sharp’s board. … Read more
Sony will introduce two new Playstation 4 consoles at its event next month, according to the Wall Street Journal. As well as the Playstation Neo, Sony will launch a refreshed model of its standard PS4. In this way, it will target both hardcore and casual gamers at the event. Damian Thong, an analyst at Macquarie … Read more
A company called Cyberdrive (previously Forte Audio) is intending to fill a (niche) gap in the media player market, by providing compact players that can output high-res audio and UltraHD video. Cyberdrive has launched a campaign on crowdfunding website Indiegogo, which went more than 1,600% past its funding goal. The funded players are known as … Read more
The ISTE 2016 educational conference held in late June, with over 16,000 in attendance hailing from 76 countries, is the largest ed-tech conference held in the U.S. One of the newest and most interesting arrivals at this year’s ed-tech expo hall was Mursion, a company that designs customized training simulations held in virtual space. A … Read more
Korea’s Yonhap News reports that the country’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has chosen the ATSC 3.0 standard for UltraHD TV broadcasts, over DVB-T2. UHD transmissions are expected to begin in February 2017. So far, most UHD TVs manufactured in Korea have been DVB-T2 sets; these will require a separate STB to receive … Read more
HZO Inc., the total solutions leader in liquid and environment protection technology, announced its recent collaboration with Rakuten Kobo to protect its latest eReader, the Kobo Aura ONE. The HZO Protected™ Kobo Aura ONE is rated to IPX8, making it a versatile device enabling people to read in more places than ever before. HZO’s innovative … Read more
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