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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 …

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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

Free Antennas Promote DTT

by Tom Allen

TV Freedom and Antennas Direct have given away more than 300 indoor antennas in San Francisco. The companies are seeking to promote DTT, as an alternative to cable and satellite services.

Technavio Says Awareness of AR Technology Will Boost Mobile Augmented Reality in the US Through 2019

by Helen Vince

Technavio has published a new report on the mobile augmented reality market in the US,which is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 99% from 2015-2019. The new Technavio report confirms that …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| USA

AT&T’s DirecTV Acquisition Close to Approval

by Helen Vince

Sources have told Reuters that AT&T’s planned acquisition of DirecTV is close to being approved by the US Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The two companies have been in negotiations for …

Baseball Match to be Shot in 8k

by Tom Allen

Six 8k cameras will be in use at an upcoming baseball game in mid-July. The Seattle Mariners vs New York Yankees game will be filmed and broadcast (although not to the public) in the …

India Will Overtake US to Become World’s Second Largest Smartphone Market by 2017

by Helen Vince

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone sales are forecast to grow from 1.5 billion units in 2015 to a record 1.7 billion by 2017. China, India and United States are …

Tags:China| India| Smartphone Market| USA

State of Android Changes by Region

by Tom Allen

Android remained the USA’s most popular smartphone operating system in the three months ending in May, data from Kantar Worldpanel shows. Google managed to increase the share of its OS by 2.8 percentage points, …

Samsung Reclaims Smartphone Crown

by Tom Allen

Samsung lost its leading position in the US smartphone market to Apple in the three months ending in April, according to Kantar Worldpanel. The company passed its Californian rival to take back its first-place …