UltraHD Will Debut on Prime
Amazon is preparing to add UltraHD content to its Prime Instant Video service. Prime subscribers will be able to receive the service at no extra cost.
US TV Subscriber Fall Offset by Telco Gains
Cable and satellite TV services in the USA suffered significant subscriber losses in Q3 – but these were offset by telco provider gains. According to Informitv’s Multiscreen Index, there was a net loss of 45,000 digital TV subscribers in the quarter among the 10 leading service providers in the country. There are more than 87 … Read more
Vienna Station Outfitted With 44m² LED Board
Beginning full operations at the end of next year, the Vienna Main Station will serve more than 1,100 trains each day. Departures will be displayed on a 21m x 2.1m LED board supplied by Kapsch, which was recently installed. The screen is slightly curved, with a pixel pitch of 4mm and more than 8 million … Read more
Vizio Expands South of the Border
Vizio has entered the Mexican market. The company’s E-series and M-Series TVs are now being sold through Sams’s Club and Walmart Superstore locations.
Vizio Lowers Amtran Orders
LCD TV OEM Amtran will produce less than 10% of Vizio’s TVs going forward, say sources in Asia. Vizio has instead shifted its business to Foxconn, TPV and Wistron, while Amtran is focusing on supplying JVC and Sharp.
Walmart Sparks Chromecast Competition
Documents filed with the USA’s FCC have shown that Walmart is planning to launch its own streaming stick, competing with the Google Chromecast. The Vudu Spark will act as a gateway to Walmart’s film and TV store. Walmart is working with Korea’s Inkel and Movon to develop the device, which does not have a release … Read more
Wuaki Plans 2015 Expansion
Wuaki.tv, the Spanish OTT service, is planning to expand to 15 countries by the end of next year. The service is currently available in Spain, France, Germany and the UK.
Ziggo Maintains Market Share
Dutch cable provider Ziggo had a market share of 62.5% in Q3’13. While the company’s total TV customers dropped by 18,000, to 2.76 million, the total homes passed in the Netherlands also fell. Because of this, Ziggo’s market share remained steady QoQ. Of the company’s subscribers, 2.3 million are digital homes (rising 13,000).
3Dperception Unveils WarpLite
3Dperception has a unique approach to the alignment of multi-projector systems that it calls Northstar. The solution embeds LEDs into the screen that are invisible until turned on. Then, a precision 3D scanner and camera capture the pattern very accurately to determine the exact geometry of the screen to create a warp mesh for the … Read more
10 3rd Dimension Shows Sliced Projection 3D Display
3rd Dimension (Knoxville, TN) gave a paper and had a small demo in the AVT Simulation booth at I/ITSEC that showcased its second generation display technology. The company called it a “holographic” display, which is partly true as it uses a holographically-defined screen. 3rd Dimension calls its approach “an electronic form of holographic stereography”. But … Read more
20th HbbTV Workshop Takes Place in December
The 20th HbbTV Interoperability Workshop will take place in Munich, Germany, on 9th and 10th December. All HbbTV application developers and manufacturers of HbbTV products are invited to attend. More details can be found at http://tinyurl.com/l4kpk7p.
30 CAE Launches Next Generation Medallion-6000 Image Generator
CAE launched its next generation Medallion-6000 image generator at I/ITSEC 2014, which is based upon the latest COTS graphics processor from Nvidia (probably the consumer GeForce series rather than the Quadro cards). The Medallion now includes an increased sustained polygon capacity of more than 400,000 polygons for heightened detailed synthetic environments. The resolution of imagery … Read more
