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Medion has launched a new media streaming box in France and Germany. The Medion Life Zoombox is connected to a TV via HDMI and can accept content from other devices via Miracast, WiDi and DLNA. It has no internet connection itself, but can mirror a display from another product. The box is available now for … Read more
Metropolis Digital Media has chosen to use Broadsign’s cloud-based software platform in a new screen deployment on top of black cabs in London next year. 500 screens (the Evolution 2 TXi Media Pod) will be deployed on taxis in the city. Metropolis claims that the number will double in the first year. The Pod consists … Read more
Nanolumens has supplied two large-scale LED displays to the Minneapolis Convention Centre. Both are part of the Nanocurve product line, installed in the new visitor information centre in the Centre’s main corridor. The displays cover a 1.5m x 27.4m area, with a 5mm pixel pitch.
Russia’s MTS will launch its own satellite TV platform this year. According to Kommersant, the service will cover 95% of Russia and offer 160 channels, of which 30 will be HD. It will cost RUB1,200 ($25) per year. MTS is aiming at significant growth for the platform, and intends for it to become Russia’s second-largest … Read more
Russian satellite provider MTS will be ready to offer UltraHD services to its subscribers once reception equipment becomes available. MTS executives did not tell Russian media when, where or on what equipment the format was tested, however.
Nanolumens has expanded its operations with Partnertech to manufacture large-format LED displays for distribution in Canada.
Ocean Outdoor has launched ‘The Screen @ Southern Terrace’, a new full-motion 325 site in Westfield London. It measures 5.2m x 2.7m and has a 10.5mm pixel pitch.
The Great Western Link is Ocean Outdoor’s new display site in the UK, linking Bristol and Bath. With a landscape configuration on the A4320 road (leading to the A4 to Bath), the site is formed of two double-sided LED displays, each measuring 12.8m x 3.36m. The screens have a 10mm pixel pitch. They can reach … Read more
Portugese regulator Anacom has said that there were about 3.3 million pay-TV subs in the country at the end of September. The figure represents a net addition of 46,500 QoQ (up 1.4%) and 132,000 YoY (up 4.2%). Pay-TV penetration in Portugal now exceeds 55%. Cable TV, with 1.37 million subscribers, was the most popular platform, … Read more
Aerial Burton, a Japanese company, has developed a way to show holograms in mid-air, without needing a surface (like smoke or water vapour) to reflect light. Moving 3D images are created by combining a 1kHz infrared pulse laser with a 3D scanner. The scanner focuses the laser on specific points in the air; the laser … Read more
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
Taiwanese OEM Qisda has raised its monitor and projector shipments by 20% and 40% YoY in Q1-Q3’14, according to company president Peter Chen. The results put shipments at 11.8 million and 1.2 million, respectively over the first three quarters. LCD monitor production has re-balanced to models with specific uses, such as gaming, graphics and medical. … Read more
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