Vivitek Signs Edumax in Norway
Vivitek has signed a distribution agreement for its projectors with Edumax in Norway.
Age UK Chooses Amscreen
Amscreen has supplied 150 AM24 LCD displays to 150 Age UK charity stores. The screens supply live news and weather. They also highlight products and services offered by the charity. The screens are fitted with Amscreen’s OptimEyes audience impressions metric suite (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 42). Each AM24 is a 24″ display with 1920 … Read more
GDS Brings Massive Digital Floor to Kazakhstan
Not content with a regular videowall, the Museum of the Republic in Kazakhstan has chosen to have a video floor installed. Global Display Solutions supplied more than 900 screens for the project, all of which feature anti-slip and -scratch coatings to make them safe to walk on. Designed for 24/7 operation, the 46″ GDS Floor … Read more
Hamburg Bridge Goes Digital
Eight new 55″ landscape-style screens have been installed on Hamburg Airport’s central bridge. Each has 1920 x 1080 resolution, but the airport could not tell us which company supplied them.
EE Chooses HbbTV for UK Service
UK telco EE has launched an HbbTV service, EE TV, which is free to existing broadband/landline packages or
Media Broadcast Begins -T2 Trial
German DTT operator Media Broadcast spoke out in support of the DVB-T2 platform in June this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 23). The company has now launched a pilot project to test -T2 with HEVC in Berlin. Trials are planned to last for 18 months, covering the entire broadcasting system chain.
Orange Signs Netflix Agreement
Orange will offer Netflix on its set-top boxes in France from November. Orange has more than 10 million subscribers, so the deal would be a significant boost for the newly-launched service.
Roku Tests Mirroring
Roku is beta-testing a screen mirroring feature on its Roku 3 and Streaming Stick devices. The feature can be used with select Windows 8.1 and Android products, worldwide.
Sony Enters Chinese Console Market
Sony will follow Microsoft into the console market in mainland China, with a facility in the Pudong New Area packaging around 200,000 Playstation 4 units annually. The consoles will go on sale in December.
Spanish Pay-TV Grows With Multi-Play
Pay-TV adoption in Spain is being boosted by combination packages, which roll five services (mobile and landline phone; mobile and fixed internet; and TV) into a single product. According to Spanish regulator the CNMC, 345,000 new customers took these multi-play packages in Q1’14, for a total of 1 million subscribers. 52.2% of total pay-TV subscribers … Read more
Subscribers Rise but Revenues Fall in Europe
Revenues will fall for more than 40 European TV operators between 2013 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. Having risen from $33.7 billion in 2010 to $35.8 billion in 2013, the firm expects revenues to reach $36.2 billion by the end of the forecast period. Analogue to (often cheaper) digital conversions and greater competition (such … Read more
Tricolor Reaches 15 Million Subscribers
Russian DTH operator Tricolor TV signed its 15 millionth subscriber in Q3. It began the year with 15.17 million subscribers, but only 10.66 million were active. More than 99% of new subscribers elected to take HD services: Tricolor now has almost 4.2 million HD subscribers, of which more than 3.9 million are active.
