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Slightly surprisingly, Vestel had a lot of digital signage monitors at IFA. Also, slightly surprising at IBC, the news that we got was about the company’s new smartphones that have been developed in-house although the company also had plenty of TVs and public displays. One of the reasons for Vestel’s entry into the market is … Read more
Distec in Germany is now carrying a range of industrial displays in 10.4″, 15″, 17.3″ and 19″ sizes. They are intended for use in 19″ rack cabinets, with two handles to aid installation and a 3mm-thick front plate of steel, for support. Customers have the option of VGA or DVI inputs and can add resistive … Read more
Epatra is now distributing SignageLive products in Benelux, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.
Clear Channel Airports has joined the USA’s Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA).
A new world record has been set by JCDecaux ATA, together with LG Electronics and KKIA. The companies have designed and installed the world’s largest outdoor advertising billboard (taking a Guinness World Record in the process), at Riyadh’s King Khaled International Airport in Saudi Arabia. The structure, which took more than three months to complete, … Read more
JCDecaux has taken a new London site, Motion@LiverpoolStreet, live. Four landscape-orientation LED screens measure 4.6m x 1.2m and target commuters passing through the station. The screens have a 6mm pixel pitch and 2,000 cd/m
Clear Channel has committed to a significant expansion of its DOOH portfolio in the UK. The first part of the expansion is called ‘Play London’, which will consist of the current Storm-branded screens (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 39) (set to double in number, to 20 sites); the LD6 network of 100 LCD displays (to … Read more
An Android-based hybrid set-top box known as ‘Miami’, supporting UltraHD content, will be launched by Bouygues Telecom in France by the end of the year. It is compatible with IPTV and DVB signals. Display Daily Comments We saw a high-end Android box from Bouygues Telecom at IBC this month, on the Marvell stand (see our … Read more
The games console is the primary method of streaming in US homes, according to Parks Associates. 46% of broadband households in the country have a console connected to the internet, and 28% use it as their primary connected CE device. Of the latter group, around 75% use the console at least weekly to access non-gaming … Read more
A white paper on the future of UltraHD technology has been published by the France-based B-Com Technological Research Institute (http://tinyurl.com/odtsfa3). The author, Jean-Yves Aubi
UltraHD content will be delivered to LG’s new and current TVs by Deluxe Digital Distributions. The company, with operations in the USA, Europe and Asia, will handle content preparation and packing of native and remastered UltraHD films, shows and local content by region. Deluxe will also test and perform QA on software decoding, frame rates, … Read more
The Ryder Cup golf tournament is being filmed by Sky Sports in UltraHD, as part of a trial of the technology.
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