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Altice-Cablevision Create USA’s Fourth-Largest Operator

by Bob Raikes

Altice has acquired Cablevision Systems Corporation, for $17.7 billion, a deal that creates the fourth-largest cable operator in the USA. Cablevision serves the US metropolitan area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut), with a …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 38

UK “May” Give Up DTT

by Tom Allen

John Whittingdale, the UK’s Culture Secretary, has said that ‘the time may come’ when the country’s DTT spectrum is given over to another service. At a keynote speech to the RTS Cambridge Convention, Whittingdale …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Terrestrial (DTT)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Invidis Examines EMEA Signage

by Tom Allen

Invidis has released the third edition of its Digital Signage Yearbook, at the annual Digital Signage Summit Europe in Munich. The document contains an overview of the EMEA digital signage market, with country reports …

Meynen Leaves Ingram

by Tom Allen

Ingram Micro’s country director for Belgium, Steve Meynen, has left the company to work for Awingu, a local workspace aggregator. http://tinyurl.com/p4bggv2

Second-Gen Chromecast Seen in Leak

by Tom Allen

9 to 5 Mac has posted an article about a second-generation Google Chromecast streaming dongle. The site claims to have seen internal documents showing a new, circular design and with improved WiFi connectivity. A …

Tags:Google| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| Vol 22 - Issue 38

BBC Brings Video Streaming to USA

by Tom Allen

The BBC has announced plans to launch an OTT video streaming service in the USA. Tony Hall, the broadcaster’s director general, said that thee new service will be launched online next year, with no …

Tags:BBC| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Germany Prepares for T2 Launch

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Media Broadcast and Eurofins are working together to develop a receiver specification and test suite, in preparation for the launch of the DVB-T2 platform. A soft launch is expected in June 2016. In …

Tags:DVB-T & T2| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 22 - Issue 38

UltraHD for $100 With Amazon

by Tom Allen

Amazon has been active in the TV STB/dongle space for more than a year now, and is stepping up its game to challenge the new Apple TV. The company’s newest Fire TV STB not …

Dolby Explains HDR

by Bob Raikes

Dolby gave a talk as one of the SES seminars at the event. Arnd Paulsen of Dolby started by talking about human vision and its capabilities. The aim is to deliver content that matches …

Hollywood Excited by HDR & WCG and “The sparkle in actors’ eyes”

by Bob Raikes

Unfortunately the joys of torrential rain and Monday morning Amsterdam traffic meant that we missed the very beginning of the Pixar/ILM keynote. The discussion when we sneaked in was about the use of different …

DVB Says HDR Will be in EU in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Helmut Stein opened the annual DVB IBC press event. Phil Laven, the DVB Chairman, was the first speaker. Laven started by talking about HEVC – he said that without it, UltraHD would not be …

AirTies Teases us With “Same Old Stuff”

by Bob Raikes

We met with Turkey-based Wi-fi specialist AirTies, in particular CEO Bülent Çelebi, who had a very nice bottle of chilled white wine on his table just as the exhibition was winding down on Sunday …

Tags:IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37| Wi-Fi