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Thomas Chang has joined large screen pcap touch maker Displax as an executive vice president, to support the company’s expansion in North America. Chang has previously worked with Cima Nanotech as VP of sales, and before that with 3M.
Insight Media has published a new white paper on sub-pixel rendering. The document both discusses the technology itself, various methods of SPR and provides details on products using these techniques. These include smartphones, tablets, notebooks and TVs from companies such as Samsung, LG, Hisense and Lenovo. The whitepaper can be downloaded for free at http://tinyurl.com/hl8pzo2.
Barco has celebrated an rise in its results for the first half of 2016. Incoming orders rose 2% YoY (to €532.9 million) and sales were up 4.5% (to €529.2 million). Gross profit margin was 35.9%, up 2.6 percentage points. EBITDA was €49.5 million, up €8.9 million compared to the first half of 2015. Finally, net … Read more
Asahi Glass has revised both its first half and full year 2016 consolidated financial forecasts, based on ‘recent performance trends’. The previous forecast for the first half 2016 was ¥680 billion ($6.4 billion), with operating profit of ¥30 billion ($281.4 million). The revised forecast is revenue of ¥625 billion ($5.9 billion) and profits of ¥39 … Read more
NEC Corporation today announced that it will be branding its lineup of artificial intelligence (hereinafter, “AI”) technologies as “NEC the WISE” and globally launching this new brand and its mark as part of NEC’s efforts to contribute to the realization of a safe, secure, efficient, and equal society in which people work together with AI … Read more
Leyard LED video walls are being used in La Salle des Emirats, at the European headquarters of the United Nations: the Palace of Nations in Geneva. The Leyard TVH series wall uses 126 LED tiles with a 1.6mm pitch on the wall, and a Leyard Carbonlight CLM series installation on the ceiling. The CLM series … Read more
A report from the Pay TV Innovation Forum, researched by MTM and funded by Kudelski, has found that 92% of operators in Europe offer a multiscreen service. 49% provide access to third-party platforms and 30% offer standalone, unbundled pay TV services. However, only 10% offer UltraHD content.
Christie has signed an agreement with Universal Parks & Resorts, to act as the Official Projection System Provider for the organisation. Christie will supply projection systems, including hardware, software and services, for Universal, including its theme parks and CityWalk complexes throughout the USA.
The Austrian Media Days event will be held on the 20th and 21st September 2016, where industry members will discuss digital signage in Austria and the wider world. A focus this year will be on mobile communications, and interaction with mobile audiences. Programmatic buying will also be discussed.
The next Gartner Symposium/ITxpo will take place between the 16th and 20th October in Orlando, Florida. More than 8,500 CIOs and senior IT and business leaders will attend. Keynote speakers will include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and former US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates. For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/96st8n2.
Encoding/transcoding firm Media Excel and stream technology provider Unified Streaming are now offering a joint content delivery solution, based on HEVC, using existing infrastructure and ‘proven’ workflows. Live HEVC has been added to Media Excel’s HERO fragmented MP4 output; this means that Unified Origin (which streams one source to multiple screens) now manages Live HEVC … Read more
Digital TV Research’s OTT & video revenue report predicts that global revenues will reach $64.8 billion in 2021 – a large increase from $4.5 billion in 2010 and $29.4 billion in 2015. APAC will contribute most of the $35.4 billion additional revenues between 2015 and 2021: $12.7 billion. Western Europe will be contribute $8.3 billion … Read more
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