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We knew that Kenya wanted its analogue switch-off to go ahead soon (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 47), after several delays (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 50 and Vol 20 No 48). The Ministry of Information Communication and Technology has now announced that ASO will begin in the capital city of Nairobi on 31st December. … Read more
KPN’s DTT platform in the Netherlands, Digitenne, is believed to have dropped below 500,000 subscribers. In KPN’s recent results, the Digitenne figure came under the heading ‘Other TV homes’ (508,000), which also included analogue FttH customers – believed to be around 10,000. Subtracting analogue customers from the total puts Digitenne’s base under half a million.
Dutch operator KPN is working with SMiT, a manufacturer of conditional access modules (CAMs), to launch an IPTV service that does not require a set-top box. A product pilot will begin next year, using the CI+ 1.4 standard (shown at IBC this year, in Display Monitor Vol 21 No 38). It will enable KPN to … Read more
A new digital billboard has been erected in New York’s Times Square – one of the largest and most expensive in the world. Running the length of a full city block, the billboard is part of Clear Channel Spectacolor’s portfolio at the front of the Marriott Marquis hotel. It was built by Vornado Realty Trust … Read more
The 72-screen flight information display at Munich Airport (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 27) is driven by Matrox’s M-Series graphics cards. Local system integrator Inonet used a combination of an M9148 quad-monitor and an M9188 octal-monitor graphics card in six of its Magnius-2 videowall controller systems to run the display.
Nanotech Entertainment has signed a deal with Samsung, making its Ultraflix VoD service available on all 2014 Samsung UltraHD TVs.
After achieving 14.4 million subscribers outside of the USA in September, Netflix has said that it expects to reach 17 million paying customers by the end of this year.
OVAB’s Digital Signage Business Climate Index in the DACH countries shows that UltraHD signage is not expected to reach mainstream adoption next year. The ‘vast majority’ of respondents expected that the technology would have a 5% – 10% market share next year; however, trends point to a single-digit range. Only a ‘very small’ proportion of … Read more
Ocean Outdoor has extended its ‘Face @ Westfield’ screens. East Face @ Westfield is 15m x 9m and towers over the West Cross route, the main approach to the shopping centre. It is surrounded by a vinyl wrap (20.2m x 13.3m), which acts as an extension for branding. The LED display has a 20mm pixel … Read more
Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that there were around 3.4 million pay-TV subscribers in the country at the end of October. More than 2 million were taking cable or IPTV services, of which 1.1 million were digital. Satellite homes stood at almost 900,000, and pay-TV platform MinDig TV Extra had just under 120,000 customers. There … Read more
Research commissioned by Vindicia and Ooyala shows that the premium OTT market is set to grow 80% over the next three years. UK consultancy firm MTM says that the UK market will grow from £110-130 million ($172-203 million) to £390 million ($611.2 million); the Dutch market will grow from €15-20 million to €190 million; and … Read more
Sony’s Playstation TV (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 24) box is now available in Germany.
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