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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.
Scalable Display Technologies is best known for its ScalableDesktop automatic camera-based warp and blend software but they have also started to ship a turnkey display system called Huddlewall, introduced last November at I/ITSEC. At the recent Sapphire Marketing road show, I had a chance to see this system in operation and get a demonstration of … Read more
In recent years I have seen an increasing trend using powerful technical terms in the general marketing activities of companies. This is combined with an increase in the number of press releases for new consumer electronics products and underlying technologies. At the same time I have also seen an increase in the misuse of technical … Read more
StreamingMedia.com announced that its annual Streaming Media East Conference and Exhibition, taking place May 10–11 at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City, will feature sessions focusing on over-the-top video deployments, business models, and workflows. Developers, premium content owners, and broadcasters will speak or present on multiple business and technical topics including: Hands-On … Read more
Rovi Corporation and TiVo Inc. today announced that Rovi will acquire TiVo for $10.70 per share in cash and stock for total consideration of approximately $1.1 billion. The new company combines two media and entertainment technology innovators with complementary products, services, and intellectual property assets and a common mission to write the next chapter of … Read more
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