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Motive’s TabletTV Reaches Europe

by Tom Allen

Motive’s TabletTV service (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 46) has been released in Europe, on the Apple App Store. It is initially available in the UK, joining TabletTV UK (Display Monitor Vol 21 No …

China’s MIIT Reveals Huawei Flagship

by Tom Allen

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has shared the specifications of Huawei’s upcoming Ascend P8 smartphone. The handset will have a 5.2″ display (1920 x 1080) and run on an octa-core Kirin 930 …

Entatech First With Hannspree’s Wearable

by Helen Vince

Entatech in the UK is to be the first distributor for Hannspree’s first wearable device, the Smart Sports Watch.

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 14

by Tom Allen

Blackberry‘s Leap smartphone (Blackberry Shows new Smartphone and Prototype with Curved AMOLED Display) can now be pre-ordered in the UK, USA, France and Germany; residents of Canada have been told to ‘stay tuned’, so …

Red Button Rebranded

by Tom Allen

The BBC’s Connected Red Button service will be rebranded to ‘Red Button+’ this month, with new features launched, such as picture-in-picture browsing of news, weather and video highlights. The service will be available on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

DTG Updates UK’s D-Book for 2015

by Tom Allen

The UK’s Digital Television Group has launched the D-Book 8. The new version provides the DTT industry with the tools to support Freeview Play and manage the clearance of the 700MHz spectrum. Also included …

UK MPs Choose Apple

by Tom Allen

Every MP in the UK – all 650 of them – will be given an iPad Air 2 after the General Election in May. The plan will cost around £200,000 ($300,000) a year – …

Tags:Back Panel| iPad| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 13

LG Renews John Lewis Partnership

by Tom Allen

UK retailer John Lewis entered into a partnership with LG to produce an own-brand TV last year: the JL9000 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 18). The successor model, the JL9100, has now been announced. …

Celebrating 90 Years of TV

by Tom Allen

Baird’s TV only had 30 lines of vertical resolutionJohn Logie Baird – the inventor of the television set – showed off his creation in London, 90 years ago. The original box was a gimmick …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Epson Modernises World War Museum

by Tom Allen

The Bentley Priory Museum in the UK has been modernised, with help from Epson and integrator Atlas AV. The museum tells the story of the country house, focusing on its role as a command …

Pixel Projects Completes Google Installation With Interactivity

by Tom Allen

AV specialist Pixel Projects has supplied solutions for Google’s new shop-in-shop in Currys PC World on Tottenham Court Road, London (Google Opens Shop-in-Shop in London), where customers can try out new interactive installations. One …

Optoma Recreates 16th-Century Dockyard

by Tom Allen

Optoma has helped to update the Chatham Dockyard Museum in the UK, with 17 projectors used to recreate the feel of a 16th-century dockyard. Sysco Audio Visual installed four EW865s, four EW775s and nine …