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The acquisition of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has not been approved, following a failure to gain antitrust approval. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission neither accepted nor denied the application, which expired on the 17th March. ASE will return all shares to participating investors, but has said that it will not give … Read more
Spectral Edge, which developed the Eyeteq colour correction system (Spectral Edge’s HDMI Adapter Compensates for Colour Blindness), has launched a server-based version of its technology. It is an alternative to the existing HDMI adapter. Operators can use Eyeteq Server to automatically process content at the head-end. Eyeteq-enhanced video is then streamed to subscribers in real-time.
Sky will roll out its own UltraHD content to the new Sky Q set-top box, the Sky Q Silver, this summer. The company’s strategy director, Nick Hern (speaking at the Connected TV Summit in London), also said that the new Now TV box will feature a new DTT tuner. The box, which will also be … Read more
In a recent article, Tom Allen of Display Daily reported on data from the Leichtman Research Group that the cable subscriber base in the US has dropped by about 385,000 subscribers in 2015 (US IPTV Suffers First Decline). This is seen as a continuation of the ‘cable cutter’ syndrome that has been haunting US cable … Read more
Today the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, formerly the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, announced the return of its CES Unveiled event series to France for a fourth consecutive CES Unveiled Paris and a debut event, CES Unveiled Prague. These two events, uniting innovative technology companies, top members of the press, industry analysts, buyers and key consumer … Read more
BagTag is from the Netherlands and was at the show to introduce its electronic bag tagging system which is built around an E Ink display. The tag is designed to be fixed to individual bags by adhesives (3M VHB tape, apparently, which is also used to stick GoPros to helmets!) and uses bluetooth (or NFC) … Read more
Rimowa is a high end supplier of baggage that is based in Germany. Like BagTag, it wants tags to be electronic, but wants travellers to buy the firm’s baggage with the displays already fitted. Like BagTag, the label can be updated with bluetooth from a phone, but Rimowa already has support from the Lufthansa app … Read more
Jackie Chan Cinema and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) today announced that the premium Dolby Cinema™ experience is coming to the top-grossing movie site in China, Jackie Chan Cinema’s Beijing Wukesong. The cinema site topped China’s box office and attendance rankings from 2011 to 2015. In 2014, it was the only cinema to achieve a box … Read more
Panasonic, a leading provider of digital signage solutions, will showcase its latest professional display and projector technology at Digital Signage Expo booth 1519. These technologies are part of the company’s end-to-end digital signage solutions for virtually any industry, including retail, education (higher education & K-12), rental and staging, restaurants, corporate offices, government organizations and more. … Read more
As expected, we saw all the new hardware from NEC Display Solutions at the recent ISE show, but the company had a good presence at PTE. Given that only they and Data Modul were there as display suppliers, we guess that they have positioned their brand well. The displays on show looked really good, especially … Read more
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, is proud to participate in the 2016 Digital Signage Expo (DSE) in Las Vegas, March 16-17, 2016. At the event, Sharp will present its full line of Commercial and Professional High Definition and 4K Ultra High-Definition displays, including a demonstration of … Read more
When we met with Data Modul at the recent Embedded World show, we promised to cover the transparent OLED that it showed when we got to PTE as we knew that there would only be very limited new hardware. The company is gradually moving to use the Data Modul name, although Conrac is still very … Read more
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