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Tablet Adoption Slowing, but Hybrids are ‘Opportunity’

by Tom Allen

A survey by Gartner has found that 17% of consumers in mature markets intend to buy a tablet in the next 12 months. 19,000 consumers were surveyed in early summer, across the UK, USA, …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 45| Worldwide

Blu-ray Popularity to Rise

by Tom Allen

The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) says that consumer spending on home entertainment remained stable in Q3 this year. Spending was driven by gains in electronic sell-through and streaming. Although a ‘resurgence of interest’ in …

Tags:Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Packaged Media| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Q3 Cord-Cutting Forecast by TDG Research

by Tom Allen

US-based TDG Research has found that adult broadband users are now less likely to cancel their pay-TV service. Research conducted in the first half of 2015 found that the percentage of these users ‘moderately …

Tags:Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Video Clarity Compares 8k Video

by Tom Allen

Video Clarity has announced a video quality analysis system for 8k video, as well as an uncompressed SD-to-8k recorder and player. The ClearView Extreme 8k system can be used to measure and analyse the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Anoto to Acquire Livescribe

by Tom Allen

Anoto Group AB is to acquire digital pen maker Livescribe. Livescribe will act as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anoto when the deal is closed, expected to happen later this month. The deal will be …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 22 - Issue 45

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Pixelworks Result 05/11/2015

by Yvette Raikes

Video display processing company Pixelworks Inc. posted Q3 net losses of $1.2 million, an improvement on losses of $2.3 million a year earlier, on turnover of $16.6 million, down from $17.1 million. For the …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pixelworks| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Elko Group Signs ScreenMedia

by Milos Pavlovic

Elko is now distributing ScreenMedia’s projection screen, mounts and lifts in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Projection Screens| Vol 22 - Issue 45

French PSB Warns of DTT Loss

by Tom Allen

The head of French public service broadcaster France Televisions has said that up to 7% of households could lose DTT access, when the country moves to the MPEG-4 AVC platform on the 5th April …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Free Brings UltraHD to Basic Offer

by Tom Allen

Free is now broadcasting an UltraHD channel in France: Festival 4K, dedicated to music festivals, concerts and similar. Access is included in Free’s basic Freebox package.

Tags:4k| France| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Colmbian Pay-TV Enjoys Small Rise

by Tom Allen

According to Dataxis, the pay-TV market in Colombia will reach 5.8 million households by 2018: a 3.4% rise from end-2015. Households with CATV services will have a 64.8% share of the country’s pay-TV market. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 45

SMPTE 2015 – Introduction

by Chris Chinnock

The SMPTE 2015 Fall Conference is history now, but as usual, it was an information-packed event in Hollywood. Our focus was on displays, high dynamic range, color management and virtual reality for the most …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

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HDR and Compression

by Chris Chinnock

With many “flavors” of HDR still being considered, what will that mean for the distribution part of the equation? That was one of the topics considered by several speakers in the “Compression” sessions at …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44