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Comcast Streams Live TV

by Tom Allen

By the end of the summer, Comcast will have launched the beta test of a new service called Stream (how many meetings did it take to come up with that one, we wonder…? – …

Tags:Comcast| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Field Tests Demonstrate ATSC Benefits

by Tom Allen

Field tests of ATSC 3.0 signals are taking place in Cleveland, USA, over the summer. An experimental broadcast licence has been granted to Tribune Broadcasting’s WJW-TV by the FCC. WJW-TV will provide a transmitter, …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Have You Got America’s Ugliest Conference Room?

by Milos Pavlovic

Offices across the USA can now compete in ZTE’s “Ugliest Conference Room Makeover” contest, with a grand prize of a $50,000 room redesign. To enter, people can submit a photo of their ugly conference …

Westinghouse Returns to Consumer TVs

by Tom Allen

Westinghouse has shown off a new line of UltraHD LCD TVs at an event in New York City, which range from an affordable 41.5″ set to a mammoth 84.5″. All of the models (41.5″ …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| UltraHD| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Multidyne Brings US Open to Golf Fans at UltraHD

by Tom Allen

Multidyne provided video and fibre technology to the US Open at Chambers Bay Golf Course last month. The company’s Silverback 4K5 camera-back transceiver was used as a fibre link to an X-Mo 4k camera …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 29

Directable Lowers Signage Costs With Sony

by Tom Allen

A digital signage application called Directable, running on Android, has been launched for Sony’s smart TVs. The app, which can be downloaded from the Google Play store, is intended to turn a consumer TV …

More than a Quarter of US TV is Streamed

by Tom Allen

28% of all TV viewing in the USA is now accomplished via streaming, says GfK. 16% is through a PC or mobile device; 9% through a TV set; and 3% through other methods, such …

Tags:GfK| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 28

MediaMelon and Media Excel Claim 35% Bitrate Saving

by Tom Allen

Streaming company MediaMelon, and OTT transcoding solution supplier Media Excel, have announced a product integration to improve streaming video quality and bandwidth efficiency. The combination of Media Excel’s Hero encoders and MediaMelon’s QBR streaming …

DST and Peerless Discuss Signage in Education

by Tom Allen

On 14th July, Digital Signage Today will be interviewing Peerless-AV about a large-scale video wall that Peerless installed at the University of California – Riverside campus. The discussion will also cover the use of …

Christie Lights Up Summit of the Americas

by Tom Allen

Christie’s Q Series projectors were used at the seventh Summit of the Americas, held in Panama earlier this year. A projection mapping display, created by Meeting & Show Technologies, used four DHD951-Q in the …

Regulatory Trend: US States Adopting Lighting Standards for Digital Billboards

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to Digital Signage Today, several states in the US have recently adopted standards for controlling the set up and operation of digital signage boards along highways. As an example, they quote the recent …

Tags:Digital Signage| Health and Safety| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Teens Are Turning Their Backs on TV

by Tom Allen

Nielsen has found that young Americans are watching less and less TV. OTT portals, such as Netflix and Hulu, are putting traditional TV under pressure. It is still the most popular medium, but may …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TV Viewing| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 28