USA – Page 99 – Display Daily

Travel Plaza TV’s Displays Designed for High Traffic Areas

by Raverstead

Travel Plaza TV is a digital signage network which works exclusively with 3D autostereoscopic displays. The company currently has 259 installations in 38 states of the USA. The 46″ autostereoscopic displays are lenticular-based units …

Dish Subscribers Dip in Q3

by Raverstead

Dish Network of the US said its pay-TV subscribers fell by about 12,000 in Q3. The company reported a rise in churn rate, to 1.67% (versus 1.66% last year) and ended the period with …

Apple Gives Way to Google in the Classroom

by Raverstead

According to IDC, Apple’s iPads have been overtaken by Google’s Chromebooks in US schools for the first time. 715,500 Chromebooks were shipped to schools in Q3, compared to 702,000 iPads. Chromebooks now represent 25% …

CE Thanksgiving and Black Friday Deals

by Raverstead

Thanksgiving in the US marks the official start of the holiday buying season for everything, including consumer electronics in all shapes and forms. While the holiday buying season had already started in August this …

Tags:Black Friday| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Minneapolis Convention Centre Chooses Nanolumens

by Raverstead

Nanolumens has supplied two large-scale LED displays to the Minneapolis Convention Centre. Both are part of the Nanocurve product line, installed in the new visitor information centre in the Centre’s main corridor. The displays …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Christie is The BOSS

by Raverstead

Christie’s StIM WQ DLP projectors and FHD461-X LCD displays have been chosen to power the visual displays for the Air National Guard’s Boom Operator Simulation System (BOSS) in the USA. Each system is designed …

US TV Subscriber Fall Offset by Telco Gains

by Raverstead

Cable and satellite TV services in the USA suffered significant subscriber losses in Q3 – but these were offset by telco provider gains. According to Informitv’s Multiscreen Index, there was a net loss of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| TV Reception| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 45

FCC Delays TV Spectrum Auction until 2016

by Raverstead

The FCC has now announced a delay of its auction of UHF spectrum until 2016. Through an announcement in late October, the Commission is apparently reacting to a move by broadcasters to block or …

Walmart Sparks Chromecast Competition

by Raverstead

Documents filed with the USA’s FCC have shown that Walmart is planning to launch its own streaming stick, competing with the Google Chromecast. The Vudu Spark will act as a gateway to Walmart’s film …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 45| Walmart

Parks Names Most Popular Christmas Gifts

by Raverstead

Parks Associates expects smartwatches and connected entertainment devices (including games consoles and streaming media players) to be among the most popular gifts given in the USA this Christmas. The trend will echo one seen …

Dish Network Keeps Negotiating with Turner and CBS

by Raverstead

Dish Network, the large US-based satellite provider is in tough negotiations with Turner and CBS over a new contract. Over the past few weeks, Dish had cut certain Turner channels from the line-up. Now …

Epson’s Powerlite 97 Appears in All PMA Channels

by Raverstead

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in September. The company divides the results into three channels: ‘Retail’, ‘Pro AV’ and ‘Distribution (previously PMA tracked by device type rather than channel …