Vol 23 – Issue 16 – Page 9

Atomos Adds PQ to Monitor Recorders

by Tom Allen

At NAB, Atomos announced updates to its new Shogun Flame monitors (Atomos Brings HDR to Field Monitors), as well as a new Shogun product. It has only been one month since the Shogun Flame …

Ocean Doubles Grid Network

by Tom Allen

Ocean Outdoor has doubled the size of its ‘Grid’ network – a portfolio of full motion city-centre screens – in the UK (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 36). There are now 14 screens in …

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Sky Subscriptions Continue Upwards

by Isaac Oburu

Sky has recorded 177,000 new customers and 686,000 more products in Sky homes during the company’s fiscal Q3.

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Sony has announced that Crackle (Sony Discusses Crackle at Next TV Summit) will also include VR-enabled ads. Advertisers will be able to place logos and integrate their own 360º ads. Sony announced this at …

Aten Supports UltraHD on KVM

by Isaac Oburu

Aten’s CS782DP KVM switch supports resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz. The device also enables access to two UltraHD-enabled USB computers from a single USB keyboard, USB mouse,and DisplayPort monitor.

Hannspree Goes Octa-Core in New Flagship

by Tom Allen

Hannspree’s newest flagship tablet is much larger than the average slate, at 13.3″. The Hannspad Titan 2 (SN14TP1B) replaces the original Titan. Unusually for a tablet, it features a mini-HDMI port as well as …

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Tech Data Official Distributors of Microsoft’s Band 2 Wearable

by Isaac Oburu

Tech Data has been appointed as the sole B2B distributor for Microsoft’s Band 2 activity tracker. Tech Data will be collaborating with Microsoft to drive interest in the new device, particularly to support resellers …

Clear Channel and Zurich Reaffirm Deal

by Tom Allen

Zurich Airport in Switzerland has extended its marketing contract with Clear Channel, for another three years. Clear Channel manages all of the 32, 46″ and 55″ displays in the airport, as well as two …

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Dish TV Down in Q1

by Isaac Oburu

Dish Network has released subscriber results for Q1 2016. The company activated approximately 657,000 gross new pay-TV subscribers, compared to approximately 723,000 in Q1’15. Net Pay-TV subscribers declined approximately 23,000, compared to a gain …

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TiVo Records 27% Subscriber Growth

by Isaac Oburu

TiVo Inc. has announced that it has reached 7 million subscriptions for TiVo-enabled platforms deployed by operators in both North America and Europe, including Virgin Media, Vodafone Spain, RCN, Cogeco and Suddenlink. The growth …

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Parade and Samsung Work on eDP OLED Tcon

by Tom Allen

Parade Technologies is working with Samsung Display, to deliver AMOLED panels for the tablet and notebook markets. Together, the companies developed the DP699 eDP timing controller (Tcon), which is used exclusively in SDC’s AMOLED …

Privacy a Real Stumbling Block for AR / VR?

by Norbert Hildebrand

Some time ago I wrote about the philosophical privacy issue that surround the augmented and virtual reality in general (How Private do You Think You are in a Virtual World? – subscription needed). In …