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IHS expects public display shipments to rebound this year, with recovering regional economies and a rising number of large projects. Unit shipments will grow 9.3% YoY to around 3 million units, and revenues will climb even faster: 15.3% YoY. Rising ASPs will help that figure; IHS forecasts an increase from $1,826 last year to $1,926 … Read more
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in home entertainment, today announced that its first Ultra HD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500, has been awarded UHD Premium Certification by the UHD Alliance (UHDA). The new certification, introduced in April 2016, is granted to Ultra HD Blu-ray players that comply with rigorous performance standards for resolution, high dynamic … Read more
Wowing crowds of 17,000, Dutch superstar Marco Borsato’s Symphonica in Rosso is one of the most spectacular series of performances in history. Held at Amsterdam Ziggodome Arena during 2016, 12 sold-out concerts broke all boundaries in terms of technical creativity, innovation and wizardry. Jo Pauly, d3 operator and programmer from Belgium-based Visual Solutions was brought … Read more
DVIGear has opened an office in the UK. The distribution office, in London, will be run by Steve Mattingly, who has previously worked at TVOne (as EMEA general manager, EMEA managing director and later president), Scanom and Vine Micros.
A team at the University of Oxford has used virtual reality to treat people suffering from severe paranoia. Patients were encouraged to put themselves in simulated situations where they would be surrounded by other people, such as a train carriage and a lift. Image copyright: Oxford UniversityMembers of one group of the 30 participants were … Read more
The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) has said that US consumer spending was ‘stable’ in Q1’16, at $4.6 billion. UltraHD adoption is rising quickly: more than 1.5 million UHD TVs were sold in the quarter (up 210%), and UltraHD discs outsold conventional Blu-ray discs by a factor of two (80,000 units). The DEG also said that … Read more
UltraHD TVs are now well-established in the market; it is difficult to find a 55″+ set that is FullHD any more. Similarly, HDR is now in its second year of mainstream use. However, technology is notorious for never standing still – we saw more developments of a third HDR format, the BBC/NHK’s Hybrid Log Gamma, … Read more
In the USA, Costco is offering a free 32″ Samsung TV to customers who buy a Galaxy S7 smartphone. A $25 Costco gift card and 5,200mAh battery pack will also be supplied. The offer is running through May.
Samsung has confirmed that it has no plans to introduced an OLED TV in the near future. President of visual display, Kim Hyun-seok, said this week, “[N]ow when little progress has been made on [OLED’s] tricky production and high costs since our suspension back in 2013, I wouldn’t say OLED is our future direction”. Kim … Read more
Cynora GmbH of Germany, which works with TADF materials, has made significant progress with its efficient blue material in the last six months. Image: OLED-InfoSince 2015, Cynora has been developing organic blue dopants for vacuum deposition. The company believes that OLED displays using blue TADF materials will feature a power consumption that is lower than … Read more
Hisense, sponsor of the FC Schalke 04 football team in Germany, is continuing to upgrade the stadium (Hisense Follows Through With Schalke Partnership). A new LED video cube will be installed above the pitch this year, which Hisense says is the largest of its kind in Europe. Each of the four faces will be 76.2m² … Read more
Deutsche Telekom has added 70,000 TV customers in Q1’16 from Q4’15 – 53,000 of them in its home market of Germany. Subscriber numbers across Europe (excluding Germany) were up 0.4% QoQ and 4.8% YoY, to 3.9 million. The majority of the 181,000 net additions over the past year were in Greece, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.
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