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Philips TV Wins 2016 EISA Award

The outstanding, market leading picture quality of the latest Philips TVs has been acknowledged once again by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) who have voted the Philips 65PUS7601 as their EUROPEAN BEST BUY LARGE SCREEN TV for 2016-2017. The 65PUS7601 features many of the PQ technologies normally reserved for the company’s award winning, … Read more

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 32

Doogee of China has launched a new handset called the T5, aka ‘the Businessport Phone’. It is IP67-compliant, with a 5″ display (1280 x 720) and 4,500mAh battery with fast charging. Doogee claims that five minutes of power will provide ‘half a day’s’ use. The phone runs Android 6.0 on an octa-core MediaTek processor. It … Read more

Microsoft Makes Streaming High Priority

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Microsoft’s Team Xbox has signed an agreement to acquire game streaming service Beam. Beam, based in Seattle, enables live stream viewers to play along with the streamer. The streamer can use Beam’s own protocol to enable viewers to control certain aspects of the game, like selecting a weapon or building a quest. Beam was only … Read more

90% of Video Providers Plan UHD by 2020

Video service providers and content producers believe that the majority of consumers and operators will adopt UltraHD TV by 2020, and are willing to pay more for such services. These results came from a global survey by SNL Kagan and Irdeto. 64% of video service providers, and 73% of content producers, believe that consumers will … Read more

Many Brands Honoured in EISAs

The winners of the 2016-2017 EISA Awards have been announced, ahead of IFA 2016. Most of the major CE brands took a prize. Panasonic’s 65DX900E took Home Theatre TV; LG’s 65″ G6 OLED TV was named to the High-End TV award, and the UH770V to Smart TV; the UE55KS9000 from Samsung took the European TV … Read more

BenQ Adds Collaboration to Smart Signage Series

The Smart Signage series from BenQ is a range of all-in-one digital signage displays, comprising the screen and software for content creation and control. The first model was the ST550K, and BenQ has now released two new products: the ST650K and ST430K. Like the 55″ display, the 65″ ST650K and 43″ ST430K feature X-Sign software. … Read more

LG Worships at Church of SK Rapid

LG Electronics Austria has begun to sponsor the SK Rapid Wien football team, supplying displays to the Allianz Arena. One of these is a 77″ UltraHD OLED TV, which replicates a new stained glass window that has been made for the stadium. Along with the OLED display, LG has supplied more than 250 screens for … Read more

Asus Takes Workers From Tablets for VR/AR

Asus’s CEO, Jerry Shen, has said that the company is accelerating the development of its robotics and VR businesses, to counter the continued weakness of its PC and tablet arms. “We have been reallocating resources, engineers and software developers from our tablet unit to the robotics, VR and AR teams to enhance the new businesses,” … Read more