Ivory Coast Bans Analogue TVs
The Ivory Coast has banned analogue TV imports, sales and marketing. The move has come as the country attempts to meet the ITU’s 17th June 2015 deadline to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting.
JCDecaux and Estée Lauder Paint Paris Red
Estée Lauder and JCDecaux worked together on a signage campaign in Paris recently. Passers-by could play a slot machine-style game on interactive screens, installed at three bus shelters in the city, to win lipsticks or vouchers. Over the six-day campaign, 1,500 lipsticks and 5,000 vouchers were dispensed. JCDecaux used 42″ LCD screens, with an after-market … 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
Medion Box Accepts Multiple Streaming Technologies
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 Visits The Big Smoke With Broadsign
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
Minneapolis Convention Centre Chooses Nanolumens
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.
MTS is Ambitious With DTH
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
MTS Readies for UltraHD
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 and Partnertech Expand to Canada
Nanolumens has expanded its operations with Partnertech to manufacture large-format LED displays for distribution in Canada.
Ocean Expands Westfield Presence
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.
Ocean Links Western Cities
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
Pay-TV Rises in Portugal
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
