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US Broadcast-Only TV Households Increase to 15.8 Million in Last Five Years

by Alan Spencer

Ion Media commissioned Nielsen to study the growth of broadcast-only TV households and their overall impact in the marketplace. The report showed that there is a steady rise in the number of broadcast-only homes …

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NEC Display Extends InstaCare Guarantee for Projectors

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display Solutions in the USA has extended its advanced replacement programme, known as InstaCare, for most of its projector models to the entire length of their warranties. The extended duration of the repair-or-replace …

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Vizio Rolls Out SmartCast TV

by Yvette Raikes

Vizio has extended SmartCast TV to all of its 2016 E-series, M-Series and P-Series UltraHD models through an internet update. The software enables fast access to content from popular video apps via the remote. …

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Samsung and Xbox Partner for XBox One X Console

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has joined with Microsoft to jointly promote the XBox One X in the US with Samsung’s Quantum Dot LCD(‘QLED’) TVs. Samsung said it has reduced the input latency to less than 20ms to …

Fox Sports Plans UHD College Football

by Bob Raikes

Fox Sports in the US plans to produce one college football game per week in UltraHD (a total of 13 games) starting on 2nd September and featuring the Maryland Terrapins versus the Texas Longhorns. …

DirecTV Adds Local Affiliates

by Bob Raikes

DirecTV has added 25 ABC, NBC and Fox local affiliates to its DirecTV Now streaming service bringing the total to 130 local stations in 70 markets. The company plans to increase this number further …

Atlanta Falcons Unveil New Stadium with Daktronics LED Displays

by Andrew Fenn

The Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia opens its doors this week, as the city’s home team, the Atlanta Falcons, play their first game underneath Daktronics’ “Halo”, claimed to be the largest non-transparent LED display …

Chicago Towers to be Upgraded

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic has supplied LEDs for Chicago’s Millenium Park which has had an upgrade to its original displays, installed in 2004 by Barco. The contractor was Threshold Acostics. The original Crown Fountain system was designed …

Museum Uses Christie to Switch from Film

by Bob Raikes

The National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, in the US has installed a 6P Christie laser projector to replace a film-based system and has found that the flexibility of digital has allowed the premises …

SNA Displays Unveils Highest Resolution LED in Times Sq.

by Isaac Oburu

LED display maker, Sansi North America Displays (SNA) has unveiled the latest in its developments of LED displays in New York’s Times Square (SNA Installs New LED Display in Times Square). The 17,000 sq. …

Vizio Extends SmartCast to E Series UltraHD Sets

by Bob Raikes

Vizio said that its Smartcast technology will be rolled out on the 2017 E-Series Ultra HD Display models. The software was already supported on the M Series and P Series models and supports Amazon …

Foxconn Plans Three More Lines on Wisconsin LCD Campus

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn is to build three ancillary facilities in Wisconsin, USA, on a campus where a $10 billion LCD factory is due for completion in 2020. The company will add a back-end packaging line, a …