Mediaset Raises Paying Customers
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset’s pay-DTT subsidiary, Mediaset Premium, has increased its subscriber base by 112,000 since June. Its total base now stands at 1.8 million.
CSA Supports T2 and HEVC
The CSA, the French regulator, has supported a proposal from the Senate, which calls for the introduction of the DVB-T2 and HEVC platforms for UltraHD services. The CSA supports the use of these platforms for all UltraHD services as well as HbbTV.
An Unusual Means is Used to Capture 3D in the Visionsense 4mm Camera
Visionsense Corp. (Philadelphia, PA) has developed a high definition 3D camera based on an unconventional technology. The need for an unusual 3D camera is a consequence of the fact that Visionsense products are a family of endoscopes in which the diameter of the device and hence the 3D camera is as small as 4 mm. … Read more
CCW is now NAB Show New York
The CCW (Content and Communications World) in New York has adopted a new name and is now called NAB Show New York. It still contains the SatCon conference and adds InfoComm Connections as a sub-show to its offering. This year, the addition of InfoComm did not result in a different focus of the conference or … Read more
Display Gadgets at CES Unveiled
My colleague Norbert Hildebrand has already written about CES Unveiled (Display Gadgets at CES Unveiled) and I won’t repeat his coverage. I do want to fill in two gaps where he missed items of interest. IonVR showed their smartphone-based VR display at CES Unveiled. Fundamentally, it was similar to the cardboard one from Google and … Read more
Canon 4K Projector Demoed at CCW
At CCW this week (to be known in the future as NAB Show – New York), Canon demonstrated its recently announced 4K LCoS REALiS Projector. The REALiS series of projectors is known as the Power Projector or XEED series in other areas of the world. Meko had previously published an article on this projector (Canon … Read more
TabletTV Plus Launches for Pre-Order
Tablet TV LLC, the joint venture between Motive Television plc and Granite Broadcasting Corporation, announced that it will begin taking pre-orders at 00:01 AM ET, Thursday, November 12th for TabletTV Plus, its inclusive TV Unplugged solution providing viewers with everything that television and the internet have to offer in a single place. Supplies of the … Read more
Royole Makes Bold Claims About Home Theatre Device
Royole Corporation has launched its Royole-X ‘smart mobile theatre device’. Although essentially a VR display with headphones, the Royole-X does have a few big differences. For starters, the headset uses an AMOLED display (we assume that this is actually two displays, but the company did not make it clear. We have questioned this – TA). … Read more
LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE Launching Now In United States
The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, the first Android Wear smartwatch to feature cellular connectivity, will begin rolling out to customers worldwide starting this month in the United States and Korea. AT&T has announced the start of online sales and will be offering the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE in-store on Nov. 13. … Read more
Meet Royole-X, The World’s First Foldable Smart Mobile Theatre
Royole Corporation recently launched its new wearable product Royole-X, the first foldable smart mobile theatre device of its kind. With the highest pixel density displays, stunning noise-cancelling headphones, novel operating system Royole-X OS and a unique foldable product design, Royole-X presents unprecedented theatrical experience that follows you everywhere, whether you are in a college dorm, … Read more
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Unveils First 4K Ultra HD Discs
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today announced the studio’s first releases in the next-generation 4K Ultra HD™ Disc format, which will arrive in early 2016. “By some estimates, consumers will own over 100 million Ultra HD television sets by 2019. Sony Pictures’ 4K Ultra HD Discs will deliver consumers the ultimate home theater experience, with … Read more
Vuzix Scores Eight CES Awards
Vuzix has secured eight CES Innovation Awards, for products that will be on show at CES 2016 this January. A new product, the iWear Wireless Video Headphones, was named ‘Best of Innovations Awards Honoree’ in the Gaming and Virtual Reality category. Other winners included the Vidwear B3000 and M3000 Smart Glasses, both of which took … Read more
