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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

Samsung Electronics and AccorHotels Group Announce Strategic Partnership

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and AccorHotels Group, the world’s leading hotel operator, announced today a partnership to roll out Samsung’s SMART Hospitality Display technology across AccorHotels’ properties spanning 92 countries. “We are excited to partner with AccorHotels to transform the hotel experience and provide our innovative hospitality solutions to even more global consumers,” said Seog-gi … Read more

Digital Projection’s Ultra-bright INSIGHT 4K Dual-LED Projector Wins Industry’s Biggest Award

Emmy® Award-winning manufacturer Digital Projection International’s (DPI) INSIGHT 4K Dual-LED stood alone as the only projector to win a ‘Best New Product’ award at the recent CEDIA Expo in Dallas, Texas. Per the CEDIA website, “The winning products were selected by a panel of home technology professional judges and were selected for the innovation they … Read more

Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2016

As 2015 draws to a close Juniper Research has drawn up a list of predictions for the coming year, all neatly wrapped up as the top trends for the technologies industries for 2016. A free report detailing the findings is available to download from the Juniper website today. 2016 – A Watershed Year for Virtual … Read more

Juniper: 2016 Will be ‘Watershed Year’ for VR

Juniper Research has identified the top technology trends for 2016. VR headsets will have a ‘watershed’ year next year, in terms of both product launches and consumer rollouts. Several big firms, including Sony, Oculus and HTC, are investing in the space. Juniper says that the technology is poiseed to ‘transform the entertainment industry’. Juniper’s full … Read more

Broadcasters Debate TV Future

The CTA (formerly the CEA) held an event in New York City recently called the Innovate Conference, at which several members of the TV industry discussed the problem with UltraHD content delivery. Advances in picture quality are driving TV sales. However, major content distribution networks do not appear to be close to supporting the extra … Read more

Mexico Prepares Homes for ASO

The Mexican government is distributing 7 million STBs to low-incoming families in the country, as part of the promise to ensure that every home has access to digital TV signals. The move has boosted the proportion of the population with digital access to 75%. Analogue signals will be turned off on the 31st December. Analyst … Read more