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Cleaning Things Up II: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age

As I wrote in my previous article, “Cleaning Things Up: Technical Hygiene in the Covidian Age”, many of us are now hyperaware (almost to the point of bacillophobia) of cleaning often-used equipment surfaces in the education sector. One educator summarizes the covid-cleaning predicament in schools and universities in this way: “The problem with the virus … Read more

NetRange VISNOS Launched to Drive Smart TV Adoption in Regions where Cost is at an Absolute Premium

NetRange MMH GmbH, the global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, announced that it has launched its cloud-powered VISNOS (Virtual Smart TV NetRange OS) platform to slash CE device manufacturers’ Smart TV costs and enable existing low-powered TVs to receive Smart TV services. The NetRange VISNOS platform removes the requirement for a … Read more

Apple May be Genuinely Disruptive. Again

When I did a search of the Display Daily website for the term ‘Disruptive’, there were 166 articles identified. However, looking through them, I had to go back to a Display Daily I wrote four years ago (Why Big Companies Can Struggle to Innovate) to see an article that used the term as defined by … Read more

Star Alliance Biometrics is launched in Frankfurt and Munich

What They Say NEC said that Star Alliance Biometrics has been introduces for frequent flyers at Frankfurt and Munich airports for customers of Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines. The system uses touchless biometrics to allow security clearance and boarding, although not all points are yet equipped, so boarding passes must still be carried. What … Read more

Portrait Displays Teams with MediaMarkt and Saturn to Offer Professional TV Calibration Services In-Store Using Calman Color Calibration Software

Portrait Displays, global leader in color calibration solutions and advanced display control, has partnered with European electronic retailer giants, MediaMarkt and Saturn, to expand their extensive range of services to include the professional calibration of TVs using Calman® color calibration software. Customers across Germany can experience blockbuster-worthy pictures in their own home with the introduction … Read more

Omdia: “Next 2 years a marketer’s dream for 4K”

What They Say Speaking at the Spanish UHD Summit (no doubt virtually!), Omdia’s Senior Research Manager, Paul Gray, has said that he thought that 2021 will be a “tremendous” year for the take-up of 4K. That will be because of “the very rich pipeline of sports events”. Gray also recognised that 8K prospects should not … Read more

61% of US Broadband Households Subscribe to Two or More OTT Services

New research in Parks Associates’ The Next ‘Big 3’ in OTT finds 61% of US broadband households subscribe to two or more OTT services as of 3Q 2020, up from 48% the previous year. Forty-five percent subscribe to three or more, up from 27%, and 31% subscribe to four or more, up from 14%. The … Read more

(Mis)understanding HDMI 2.1

What They Say FlatpanelsHD as done a deepish dig into the weeds of HDMI2.1 to try to illuminate some of the aspects of the bandwidth specifications often quoted on TVs. It also looks at the longer term issues of variable support for different features. What We Think The problem that every feature in an HDMI … Read more