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Gatwick Gets LED Storefront

by Bob Raikes

Hour Passion, a watch store belonging to the Swatch group at London’s Gatwick Airport, has a shop front that has been upgraded to include an LED display with 3mm pitch from Dynamo LED of …

Tags:Aviation| Large Display Monitor| Retail| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Sky Q Adds Mobile App

by Bob Raikes

Sky has expanded its Q Mobile App to allow access to content stored on a home box while the viewer is away from the home. Content can also be downloaded from boxes to smart …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 42

New Beacon Network Developed in UK

by Bob Raikes

Proxama of the UK has developed its network of beacons in the UK to 4,000 locations with support for both Apple iBeacon and Google Eddystone formats. The company claims a billion ‘touch points’ in …

Tags:Beacons| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Outdoor Plus Wins TfL Deal

by Bob Raikes

Transport for Londong (TfL) has made a deal with Outdoor Plus for advertising and the company will install six digital screens in underpass locations including the A3 Kingston, the A40 in Ealing and the …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 40

BFI Film Festival Uses Christie 4K Projection

by Yvette Raikes

The London Film Festival has built a temporary 800-seat cinema on the Embankment with a 16m screen. The films will be shown using two Christie Solaria CP4230 DLP projectors, and the BFI has opted …

Tags:Back Panel| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 40

British Land secures 100 screen portfolio deal with Clear Channel UK

by Isaac Oburu

British Land has signed a significant digital advertising contract with Clear Channel UK to install over 100 digital advertising panels across its regional and local multi-let retail portfolio. The initiative supports the company’s vision …

Tags:Advertising| UK (United Kingdom)

First IMax VR Centre in Europe to be in Manchester

by Bob Raikes

We have reported on the plans by IMax to develop VR experiences attached to cinemas and now the company has announced a deal with Odeon & UCI Cinemas group, under which the first pilot …

Tags:IMAX| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Sky Q Adds Sports Split Screen

by Bob Raikes

Sky in the UK has a new STB and service that it is calling “Sky Q” and that is based on a gateway, supporting multiple other screens over a home network. Now the company …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Sky| STBs| TV Viewing| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 39

MCDecaux Wins 20-year Tokyo Advertising Contracts

by Isaac Oburu

JCDecaux SA, the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announced today that its Japanese subsidiary, MCDecaux (85% owned by JCDecaux and 15% by Mitsubishi Corporation) has been awarded the bus shelter advertising contracts by …

Tags:Advertising| JCDecaux| UK (United Kingdom)

Amscreen Wins Digital Phone Box Contract

by Bob Raikes

Amscreen of the UK said that it will be supplying the digital phone boxes for a new roll out by Clear Channel UK under the name of Adshel Live. Amscreen said that it has …

Tags:Amscreen| ClearChannel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Recruitment & Appointments| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Kodi Box Dealer Taken to Court

by Bob Raikes

In the UK, a dealer of a ‘fully loaded Kodi box’ has been accused of selling products that breach copyright laws. Kodi is a development of the XBox Media Centre, which was used to …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Litigation| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 39| xBox