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Display Measurement in the Post-Phosphor Era

meBroadcast & Distribution – On November 18th, the New York chapters of SMPTE and IEEE-BTS and the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the SID held a joint meeting titled “The Calibration Conundrum – Display Measurement in the Post-Phosphor Era” There were three speakers: Gary Mandle is Senior Product Manager in the Display Systems Group of Sony Electronics. … Read more

Apple and Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality – Augmented reality is often cited as one of the key technologies for the next few years or decades, depending whom you listen to. If we follow the recent logic of many analysts, a new CE product cannot be launched successfully without Apple preparing a consumer model for the masses. Smartwatches may fall … Read more

JCDecaux Brings Digital Network to Edinburgh Centre

JCDecaux has won a tender to act as the media partner for the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. The company will design, install and maintain 436 advertising bus shelters – the city centre’s first digital screen network. As well as this, interactive ‘LiveTouch’ screens will be installed in Princes Street and 60 large-format billboards (static and … Read more

Q3’14 Worst on Record for US Pay-TV

The 13 largest pay-TV providers in the USA (representing 95.3 million video customers – about 95% of the market) lost around 150,000 net video subscribers in Q3’14 – compared to a loss of 25,000 in Q3’13. Leichtman Research Group (LRG) says that the top cable companies (49.5 million video subscribers) lost about 440,000 customers, compared … Read more

32″ – 42″ Panel Prices Will Rise in Q4

Pricing for 32″, 40″ and 42″ TV panels will continue to rise in Q4’14, say Asian sources. The situation is not expected to soften until Q1’15, when demand seasonally falls. Panel makers have lowered production of 32″ units to focus on larger, higher-end products such as 50″ and 60″ UltraHD panels.

Belarus Makes Progress to Digital

Analogue services continue to be switched off in Belarus. Analogue transmissions were turned off in the agglomerations of Liozno in the Vitebsk region and Krichev in the Mogilyov region from 1st November. Further shut-downs will take place on 15th January, in the agglomerations of Kopyl and Telyaki in the Minsk region and in Smorgon in … Read more

DVB-T2 Plans Outlined in Germany

At a Media Broadcast event in Germany regarding DVB-T2, it was said that private broadcasters in the country plan to launch services using the platform in mid-2016. DVB-T broadcasts could be turned off in early 2018. Public broadcasters plan to begin -T2 programming in early 2017 and turn off simulcasts in mid-2019. Media Broadcast and … Read more