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Eutelsat and Telespazio Promote HD & UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Eutelsat and Telespazio, a Leonardo-Finmeccanica (67%) and Thales (33%) joint venture, have a new agreement to develop HD and UltraHD transmission on Eutelsat’s Hotbird ‘video neighbourhood’ which is centred on Italy and provides coverage …

LG Sets Out Gitex Plans

by Bob Raikes

LG was planning to show its ‘wallpaper’ OLEDs, Dual Curved Displays, Dual sided OLEDs and 86” Ultra-stretch Display at the Gitex show. The company also said that it has a new OLED-based Hotel TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 41

SVOD Income Five Times Higher by 2021 in MEA

by Yvette Raikes

At the end of this year, SVOD subscribers in the Middle East and Africa will number 3.7 million, according to Digital TV Research. But this figure is forecast to rise to 20 million by …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Almoe Digital Solutions To sell Peerless-AV in the Middle East

by Isaac Oburu

During the Gitex 2016 event, Almoe Digital Solutions announced that it had partnered with Peerless-AV to distribute the products in Dubai and the Middle East.

Tags:Display Mounts| Distribution| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Nessma Offers OTT Streaming Video

by Yvette Raikes

Tunisian commercial TV channel, Nessma TV, launched a mobile network called Nessma Mobile. The network has taken delivery of OTT online video technology from SotalCloud to provide streamed video for over 200,000 subscribers. SotalCloud …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Digicomm Uses BrightSign & LG for Shark Week

by Milos Pavlovic

Brightsign recently collaborated with a local S.I., Digicomm, to put on a special ‘Shark Week’ at the Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo. There were around 90 displays driven by 42 players to create the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 37

NCR Wins Kuwait ATMs

by Isaac Oburu

NCR was was contracted to supply and install 300 ATMs for Kuwait Finance House (KFH). NCR APATRA software was used for the infrastructure as well as NCR’s Branch Effectiveness Modeling (BEM) that has tools …

LG Plans 17% of 55″ as OLED in Israel

by Milos Pavlovic

LG Israel held an event with a home theatre website to promote its OLED TVs. During the presentation, the company claimed that the combination of UltraHD LCDs and OLEDs would claim 44% of revenues …

Notebook Rebound Boosted EMEA PC Shipments

by Tom Allen

PC shipments in EMEA were slightly above expectations in Q2’16, says IDC, at 16.1 million units shipped – although this still represented a 4.7% YoY fall. Western Europe stabilised at -0.8%, while CEE and …

Moab Moves Into Solar TV

by Tom Allen

A company called Moab Power is designing TVs for countries where power supplies are only intermittent. The company’s normal focus is on addressing basic power and lighting needs in developing regions. The Solar TVs, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Power Supplies| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Scala Promotes Harry Horn

by Tom Allen

Scala has appointed Harry Horn as VP and general manager of the EMEA region. Horn, who joined Scala in 2010, will oversee the sales, marketing, finance, services and support and daily activity of Scala’s …

NEC and Metra Focus on Government

by Tom Allen

NEC has signed a distribution agreement with Metra Group in Egypt. Metra will distribute NEC’s display products, and will focus on adding new government and public sector customers.

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| NEC| Vol 23 - Issue 26