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The UK’s Digital Television Group’s Testing arm (DTG Testing) is launching an HDMI interoperability testing service. The unit said that that ‘many’ of its customers have found that HDMI compliance and certification does not guarantee that licensed devices will function correctly and be fully interoperable. Customers can now have their devices tested against the DTG’s receiver collection, … Read more
Spain’s Wuaki.tv plans to expand its service to The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Austria and Sweden this year.
Further doubt has been cast on Telefonica’s bid to acquire Canal+ after it emerged that talks between Spain’s competition authority, CNMC, and Telefonica were on the verge of collapse. At the end of last year, the European Commission warned of significant competition issues in four particular markets: the distribution retail pay-TV services under the Movistar … Read more
Samsung Display’s efforts to lower OLED smartphone panel pricing will see the company achieve cost parity with TFT-LCD panels this year, claim sources with upstream component suppliers. The gap was between $10 and $15 in 2013 and $5 in 2014. The cost difference is now about 10% higher.
Aixtron and Manz signed a strategic cooperation agreement early last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 2), to develop a G8 system based on Aixtron’s OVPD technology. However, in a recent press release Manz CFO Martin Hipp commented that he doesn’t expect any mass-production breakthroughs for OLEDs in the next two years (presumably referring to … Read more
Sony has been granted an extension to the deadline for submitting its third quarter results, which the company said was necessary following a serious disruption of its network systems, caused by a cyber-attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment in November. The company said it will still hold briefing sessions for the media and analysts on 4th … Read more
Russia’s Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (RTRS) has completed its DVB-T2 transition, which it began in March 2012. RTRS added that the main DTT multiplex it runs reaches 85.3% of Russia’s population (121.8 million people), and the smaller one 48.1% (68.6 million).
Kimberly Sarubbi, president of Saddle Rach Digital and recent chairman of the USA’s Digital Signage Federation, is to be presented with the organisation’s fourth Legacy Award. The Award is said to recognise ‘exemplary leadership, service to our membership and to the digital signage industry’.
New Parks Associates video research finds 17% of U.S. broadband households are likely to subscribe to an over-the-top (OTT) video service from HBO. Among these likely subscribers, 91% are currently pay-TV subscribers, and roughly one-half would cancel their pay-tv service after subscribing to this HBO OTT service. The research firm reports the average head of … Read more
UltraHD TVs represented more than 50% of 55″+ TV sales at the end of Q4’14 in Korea, said domestic retailer Lotte Hi-Mart, speaking to ET News. A Korean channel source forecast that the share would rise to 75% this year. The retailer said that UltraHD TVs represented around 30% of its total TV sales in Q4’14 (up … Read more
DivX, LLC, a leading provider of next-generation digital video solutions, and Altech Multimedia, a provider of products, professional services and competitive solutions to the digital multimedia broadcast and broadband industries, announced a new agreement to license and integrate DivX Plus® HD and DivX® HEVC technology into its upcoming set-top boxes. The devices will be made … Read more
Based on technology developed by Catopsys (Paris, France), the Immersis system can project imagery onto the area surrounding a TV. Doing so is intended to enhance the extent of the user’s immersion in a video game or panoramic video. It also allows the user to share the experience with others. Immersis is not intended to … Read more
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