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Cable and IPTV Rule Hungary

Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that there were 3.4 million pay-TV subscribers in the country at the end of 2014. More than 2 million received cable or IPTV services, 55% of whom were digital. There were 900,910 DTH subscribers and 117,307 for pay-DTT service MinDig TV Extra, based on data from the three main service … Read more

Daktronics Prepares Massive Halo Board

A circular LED video display will be built in a new stadium in Atlanta by Daktronics. The display will measure more than 5,900m²; more than five stories high and three times as large as the current largest single display board in the USA’s NFL. The ‘halo board’ will hang above the centre of the field and … Read more

Christie H Series Joins Powerful 1DLP Roster

Christie® introduces its most powerful 1DLP® projector line today which will have its first showing at theIntegrated Systems Europe (ISE) show in Amsterdam Feb. 10-12 at Christie’s stand H50 in Hall 1. The new Christie H Series projectors feature 12,000 lumens and are the lightest, brightest and smallest projectors available in the 10,000-plus lumen 1DLP® … Read more

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Processor Powers Premium Tier Mobile Experiences of 2015

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), has a growing customer design pipeline in excess of 60 premium tier mobile devices based on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 810 processor. New devices based on Snapdragon 810 include the LG G Flex2 and the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro, with many more expected in the coming weeks … Read more

Worldwide Tablet Shipments Experience First YoY Decline in Q4 While Full Year Shipments Show Modest Growth

Worldwide tablet shipments recorded a year-over-year decline for the first time since the market’s inception in 2010. Overall shipments for tablets and 2-in-1 devices reached 76.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14) for -3.2% growth, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Although the fourth quarter witnessed … Read more

Deluxe Steps Up Role in 4K-UHD Delivery Ecosystem

HD content today is delivered to a dizzying array of devices in a multitude of formats. While we are not there yet for the delivery of UHD-4k content, many of the same technologies and platforms will be used for 4k. Now we have learned that Deluxe is leveraging its existing OnDemand services to offer 4k-UHD content services … Read more

Archimedia Announces Atlas Player Support for 4K 60p and HDR Content on Any Display

Archimedia Technology, a company whose applications bring precise multiformat viewing to the professional’s desktop, TV, UHDTV, and SDI infrastructure, today announced the release of Atlas 3.1.1, the newest version of its full-featured precision media player. Atlas now makes it possible to watch 4K 60p content encoded in practically any format from all kinds of sources … Read more

Barco Finalises Defense & Aerospace Unit Sale to Esterline

Barco has finalised the sale of its Defense & Aerospace division to Esterline in the US (Barco to Sell Defense & Aerospace Division to US-based Esterline). As a result, all employees in the division have joined the Esterline group and Barco’s activities in the defence and aerospace markets have been transferred. In return, Esterline has transferred … Read more

Eye Expands DOOH at Newcastle

Eye Airports is installing new high-res advertising screens in Newcastle International Airport. The Initial rollout is of two 70″ LCD units with 1920 x 1080 resolution; the installation was managed by Eye Airports’ own team. Eye believes that the screens, which add to the airport’s limited DOOH advertising portfolio, will support brand’s campaigns and audience … Read more

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 6

A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia and supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as MacOS versions from 10.8 to 10.10. Users can use the adapter to send signals from a USB source … Read more