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Vtron to Show Hybrid Video Wall at ISE

Control room and video wall specialist Vtron will show its new ‘hybrid’ display wall system at ISE 2016. The product combines Digicom’s ARK3000 and IP-based CLINK 1000 processors, with Vtron’s VIS video wall control software. In addition, the company will show its various display solutions, including small-pixel-pitch LED displays (down to 1.2mm) and Visionpro rear … Read more

Huawei Shows Off Fast-Charge Battery

Huawei has published a video showing an extremely fast charge of a smartphone battery – five minutes to 50% capacity. The battery is removed from the phone (sorry, iPhone users) and placed in a separate power brick-type unit, then removed five minutes later and re-inserted. Huawei has not released any information about the technology, but … Read more

Norautron Acquires Hatteland Display

Norway’s Norautron Group is to acquire 100% of Hatteland Display from Herkules Capital. Norautron is an EMS provider and Hatteland manufactures maritime displays and computers. Including Hatteland Display, Norautron will have an estimated annual turnover of NOK1.8 billion ($207.5 million). The management teams of both companies will work together to establish a platform for continued … Read more

Latest iPad Displays Unrivaled in Daylight Performance

Apple’s newest crop of tablets including the iPad Mini4, iPad Air2 and brand new flagship tablet from Apple, the iPad Pro gained “unrivaled record holder” performance status in ambient light conditions, mostly due to their “significantly lower” reflectance numbers when compared to rival tablets currently shipping in the industry. This, according to Dr. Ray Soneira … Read more

Philips LED Screen Used in Leeds

SIS Digital has installed a 3.6m x 6.6m Philips ‘Showall’ LED display in the UK city of Leeds. Situated at The Pinnacle on Bond Street, the screen has a 10mm pixel pitch and 5,500 cd/m² of brightness. Wireless and NFC technologies are built in. Analyst Comment We were under the impression that Philips had left … Read more

BrightSign Players Used in Turkish Project

BrightSign players have been used in a large-scale network rollout of almost 400 screens in Turkey. Linova Digital Medya Teknolojileri built the network for Shell garage forecourts. BrightSign’s Network Enterprise Edition player was chosen due to its security and reliability. Over the next 12 months, the Shell TV Network will expand to 1,000 stores across … Read more

Tveon Claims Perseus-Beating Bit-Rates

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A Canadian company known as Tveon claims to have an encoding technology that beats even the impressive bit-rates of V-Nova’s Perseus (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). Having been operating in ‘stealth mode’ for the last three years, CEO Scott Hayward says that it was time to show Tveon’s technology to the world, because rivals … Read more

DTG and German TV Platform Collaborate on UHD Plugfests

The DTG UK UHD Forum and German TV Platform are working together to test UltraHD TVs, receivers, content and connectivity as new services are developed. The first of a series of joint plugfests will be held on the 8th and 9th December in Berlin; it will examine the delivery and support of HDR UltraHD. Future … Read more

The Horizon Report: Ed Tech Roadblocks

This summer the New Media Consortium (NMC), together with the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), released their international K12 Horizon Report. The full report can be accessed here. The following chart helps lay out the big ideas in this report. In my first article in this series, Dissecting the 2015 K12 Horizon Report, I outlined … Read more