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Miraj Cinemas Partners with Galalite for their 100-Screen Project

Forging partnerships and building relationships with fellow businesses are vital to the progress of a business in any industry, and the cinema industry is no different. Galalite Screens, the leader in cinema screen technologies, has announced a strategic partnership with the Miraj Group, which includes providing 100 screens to Miraj Cinemas in the next 15 … Read more

How Much Contrast do You Need in a Monitor for Photography?

Those that are interested in photography and are keen to get good results know that they need a good monitor and in particular one with good colour quality and contrast. But how much contrast do you need? My attention was drawn to this topic in a review of photographic technology by Dan Wells and published … Read more

LG launches new office-use projectors in S. Korea

What They Say The Korea Herald reported that LG has launched new office projectors in S. Korea. The BU60PST and BF60PST ProBeam projectors are based on lasers, although details weren’t given. The new models have 6.000 Ansi Lumens of output, up from 5,000 on the previous BU50NST L/P model. The BU6PST has UltraHD resoloution, from … Read more

Amino Flexibility Enables Cablenet to Meet the Challenges of Android TV on a Hybrid Architecture

Amino, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, announced that Cablenet, the number one cable operator in Cyprus, has begun to roll-out Amigo 7XC Android TV set-top boxes to its cable and fiber customers. Following extensive lab and field tests, the roll-out began in December 2020. Amino is providing Cablenet with the AminoOS powered … Read more

Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Declined 5% in Fourth Quarter of 2020

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Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 5.4% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales declined 12.5% in full year 2020. “The sales of more 5G smartphones and lower-to-mid-tier smartphones minimized the market decline in the fourth quarter of 2020,” said Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner. “Even … Read more

Chinese monitor market to grow 3% in 2021

What They Say Sigmaintell that said that sales of monitors in the Chinese market in 2020 were 34.5 million units. The forecast for 2021 is 3% in volume to 35.6 million units. 144Hz monitors have become the ‘mainstream’ according to the report and there has been an increase in popularity of 165Hz and even 240Hz … Read more

Steering Board approves DVB-TA watermarking and DVB Home Broadcast spec

What They Say The DVB Steering Board has approved a new and an updated specification. The update was to the DVB Targeted Advertising specification to include watermarking as an alternative way to signal where content can be inserted in a broadcast. The new specification (DVB-HB/DVB Home Broadcast) allows client devices likes smartphones, tablets or HDMI … Read more

Steering Board Approves DVB-TA Watermarking and DVB Home Broadcast Spec

Last week’s meeting of the DVB Steering Board approved the publication of two BlueBooks, one an updated specification and the other a new specification. The DVB Targeted Advertising specification has been updated (BlueBook A178-1r1) to include watermarking as an alternative way to signal where content can be inserted in a broadcast. DVB Home Broadcast (BlueBook … Read more

VIZIO Ads Launches Glass-Level Frequency Control For TV Advertisers

VIZIO Ads, the award winning TV company’s direct-to-device advertising business, unveiled Universal Frequency Control, a new capability that enables brands to set limits on how often a VIZIO TV within a household is exposed to specific ad creative when placing an ad through its platform. Solving one of the biggest problems plaguing the over-the-top and … Read more

Roku Has a Good Q4

What They Say Roku had a good Q4 and good year in 2020 overall. The company went past 50 million active acounts, via players and Roku TVs and the company claimed 38% share of SmartTVs sold. For the year, revenue was up 58% to $1.778 billion and ARPU grew from $23.14 to $28.76 from Q4 … Read more