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The Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat, co-organised by SMPTE, is dedicated to the technologies of film production. This year, for the first time, an edition of the event was held in the UK, in the cultivated wilderness of Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire – a convenient 20 minutes from your reporter’s home! The first talk we … Read more
The Alder Hey children’s hospital in the UK recently moved to a new facility, with 16 operating theatres – 13 of them featuring Sony monitors and room cameras. In total, Sony supplied 39 displays for the faciltiy’s ORs (26 27″ surgical displays, 13 43″ Bravia displays) and 343 screens around the hospital. These included 20 … Read more
Sharp Europe today launches software that makes it possible to join together up to three 80” BIG PAD Pros, to create one huge interactive flat panel display. The ‘Advanced Multi-Board’ set-up, with three BIG PADs side-by-side, creates a surface that is 5.4m wide. Six people can work on the display at the same time. Christopher … Read more
Barco’s CFO, Carl Peeters, has decided to leave the company. He will be replaced by Ann Desender, currently VP of finance & control, in September. Peeters joined Barco in 1987, initially working in business development before becoming CFO of BarcoNet in 2000. He was appointed group CFO in 2010. Desender joined Barco in 2008, and … Read more
The market for LEDs used in phones (including for display backlights, keypad illumination and camera flash) will fall at a 2.6% CAGR between 2015 and 2021, says IHS Markit. The rising penetration of OLED display technology is given as the reason. IHS expects OLED display penetration to rise from 13% of mobile phones in 2015 … Read more
Sources speaking to Recode have said that Google has cancelled the development of a standalone VR headset. The company declined to comment on the move, but Recode speculates that the decision comes from Google’s efforts to streamline its projects: shifting its focus to mobile VR, such as apps and services, rather than hardware. In May, … Read more
A new VoD service called Pantaflix will be launched in Europe and the USA on the 28th July, by Pantaleon Entertainment. Unlike rival services, Pantaflix will deal directly with producers, without involving sales companies or distributors. This means that revenues for content creators will be higher, says Pantaleon, and that content will not be geo-locked.
Amazon will launch its Prime Instant Video VoD service in France, Italy and Spain simultaneously, before the end of the year. The news comes from French newspaper Le Figaro.
Tech Data UK has appointed Ross Turner as head of consumer business development and Teresa Johnston as smart home business development manager. Both will report to Mark Glasspool, director of consumer product marketing at the firm. In addition, Jason Clegg and Carl Thomas have joined the Retail team; the former as senior account director and … Read more
Distributor Also has opened a new logistics centre in Pirkkala, Finland, enabling same-day delivery across most of the country. The eCommerce warehouse will also serve parts of Estonia. In total, €20 million was invested in the 17,000m² site. In related news, Also Belgie is a new office opened to serve the Belgian market. Based in … Read more
Taiwanese passive OLED maker Ritdisplay has said that demand for its PMOLED panels has been high this year, and revenue for the first half of 2016 is up 40% YoY to $31.2 million. It is thought that profits in the six-month period could exceed those for all of 2015. On the back of the news … Read more
A posting on Amazon’s Spanish site, since removed, appears to have leaked the launch date of Sony’s Playstation Neo console (UHD Playstation is Official – But…). The unit will apparently be available in October (matching the release of the Playstation VR headset), for $440. In addition, a presentation that was leaked online has shown the … Read more
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