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It was rumoured in April that Nokia was planning a return to the mobile business (Rumor: Nokia Getting Back into the Phone Business?). Now the company says that it will outsource the manufacturing of any new devices and that the phones are unlikely to be ready until the end of 2016. A spokesman for the … Read more
Digitag said that the DTT platform is the most important television delivery platform in the UK and is used by approximately 75% of households. According to Digital UK, the platform will continue to offer new services and will work towards a successful clearance of the 700 MHz band.
The Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Audiovisual Services in Germany (VPRT) has said that new record figures were achieved in the German Pay TV market. Revenues reached €2.05 billion in Germany, €2.2 billion in the DACH region. The group is forecasting a 7% rise in 2015 to €2.4 billion for the region. The main driver … Read more
For some time now, the TV business in the US has been changing. Discussion of cable/cord cutting or cable/cord shaving (downgrading pay TV service) is affecting all areas of the home entertainment industry. The following chart shows the development of pay TV subscribers in the US since the third quarter of 2014 according to Statista. … Read more
JVC Professional Video, a division of JVCKENWOOD USA Corporation, today announced six new ProHD LCD monitors for field and studio use, including a dual nine-inch rack display. Integrated with a wide range of professional functions, the new DT-X92 monitors will replace corresponding DT-X91 models in the JVC ProHD monitor lineup. The DT-X92HX2 features two nine-inch … Read more
TFT LCD is a type of LCD that provides better optical properties such as picture contrast. TFT LCDs form the display panel for LCD TVs, desktop PCs, and mobile computing devices. An LCD panel is made up of a number of layers containing different components such as a polarizer, a color filter, and an LCD … Read more
Oculus, developer of the Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display system has acquired Pebbles Interfaces (pebblesinterfaces.com – Note: original website taken down) of Kfar Saba, Israel. The firm’s LinkedIn page (below) describes the firm’s specialties as gesture interface, optics, computer software and human machine interface. Oculus, owned by Facebook, is of course engaged in gesture … Read more
BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned provider of visual display solutions and the No. 1-selling projector brand powered by TI DLP® technology in The Americas, today introduced its all-new M6 Series projectors. Designed with exceptional brightness capabilities, easy installation options, and BenQ’s renowned Colorific™ picture quality, the company’s MX631ST and MW632ST short-throw projectors deliver an … Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has reported its second quarter results, posting a net profit of NT$79.4 billion ($2.5 billion) on turnover of NT$205.4 billion ($6.6 billion), which compares with a net profit of NT$59.7 billion ($1.9 billion) on turnover of NT$183 billion ($5.8 billion) in the second quarter of last year. For the first six … Read more
We have covered Aptovision’s BlueRiver NT video transport system briefly before (VoIP from Aurora Multimedia and AptoVision), but Insight Media has written about the technology in much more detail recently. BlueRiver is an FPGA-based video-over-IP product. It uses a standard ethernet infrastructure and equipment to transport AV, control, USB and ethernet signals from source to … Read more
SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced today that the leading German and Austrian pay TV-provider Sky Deutschland has secured additional capacity for Ultra HD broadcasts on ASTRA at 19.2 degrees East. Ultra HD delivers four times the resolution of today’s HD TV, providing more dramatic action for sporting events and … Read more
Apple’s smartphone payment system – Apple Pay – was quietly launched in the UK in mid-July. Is it just a matter of time before we are all using smartphones as a digital wallet? Not according to a Harris poll in the USA. Interest in mobile transactions – including Apple Pay and using mobile apps to … Read more
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