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Media Frankfurt – a joint subsidiary of Fraport AG, JCDecaux and Ströer – has announced that new digital signage will be open for advertising in Frankfurt Airport in June. The company has not published technical specifications but has said that six large video walls will be available.
Lenovo reported Q4 2015 net profit of $180 million, up 80% YoY. Turnover for the quarter was $9.1 billion, down 19% YoY. Net loss for full year 2015 was $128 million, while turnover for the period was $44.9 billion, down 3% YoY. Internal restructuring and challenging economic conditions negatively impacted financial results.
If fully successful, the gesture control technology under development at eyeSight Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel) will minimize the need for using input peripherals in conjunction with smartphone based VR headsets. Such headsets include the Samsung Gear VR and the Google Cardboard. The eyeSight approach provides the user with the ability to navigate virtual space through … Read more
A 4,400 square foot video wall boasting over 65 million pixels and comprising 1,640 2.5mm Christie® Velvet® LED tiles at the Westgate Sports SuperBook is keeping visitors to the casino up-to-date on everything from the rugby world cup to tennis. This enormous video wall spans the length of the world’s largest sports book creating a … Read more
BroadSign International, LLC’s automated digital out-of-home software has been selected by Airport Media to power its DOOH displays at airports in the United Kingdom. Airport Media has a portfolio of static, digital and experiential campaigns within London Gatwick and London Luton airports. The displays comprise a mix of large and small format digital and LED … Read more
SkyQ is Sky’s new multi-room service for customers who want the most up-to-date pay-TV experience (Sky Overhauls STB, Prepares for UltraHD). As well as all the features of Sky+, SkyQ features a choice of two set-top boxes (SkyQ and SkyQ Silver), one of which will support UltraHD later this year. Andrew Olson is the director … Read more
We will shortly have a great Display Daily article from Barry Young of the OLED Association on what he sees as the hype for quantum dots at SID. However, if you are still at the SID DisplayWeek, Young recommends you go and look at the demonstration on the QD Vision booth, where there is an … Read more
South Korean satellite pay-TV provider KT SkyLife has chosen to use Ericsson technology in its UltraHD service. Ericsson’s HEVC encoders will be used in KT SkyLife’s fifth UltraHD channel.
Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany and its North American branch, EMD Performance Materials, showed off their new logos and design language at SID Display Week for the first time. The look, startlingly, is more “Age of Aquarius” than “Serious Germanic Chemicals Company,” and that’s precisely the point. In addition to using the redesign as an opportunity … Read more
NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has achieved the world’s first wireless real-time transmission of 8K video deploying radio access technology for 5G mobile communications systems, in a trial jointly conducted with Nokia on May 19. The transmission of ultra-high-resolution 8K video was achieved by a combination of an experimental system jointly developed by … Read more
At InfoComm 2016 (Las Vegas, June 8–10, booth N2047), Matrox® Graphics Inc. will showcase the unique power and flexibility of multi-channel Full HD, 4K and 8K real-time encoding for digital signage, control rooms and other AV-over-IP applications. Maevex™ 2 PCI Express® cards that perform quad 4K capture and encoding will be used to stream up … Read more
According to Kotaku, Microsoft plans to launch a ‘cheaper, smaller Xbox One’ at this year’s E3 gaming show, and a more powerful model in 2017. Sources say that the 2017 console, code-named Scorpio, will feature a more powerful GPU and will be able to play UltraHD games – not unlike the Playstation Neo (Rumour Claims … Read more
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