Vol 23 – Issue 39 – Page 2

Cdiscount Starts Triple Play Streaming

by Yvette Raikes

France’s Cdiscount has acquired 16 million customers since it was founded in 1999. It is now offering a streaming service which it describes as a “world first”. Cstream has three applications – music, video …

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DisplayLink Integrated into Windows Core

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink, which has technology for graphic display over USB, said that it has a version of its software that works with Windows 10th Anniversary Upgrade and it said that the software is integrated with …

Three New ATSC 3.0 Standards Added

by Bob Raikes

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has standardised three more components of the next-generation television system that it hopes will transform the ability of broadcasters to deliver mobile, interactivity and higher quality content. ATSC …

PS4 Users Have to Choose VR or HDR

by Bob Raikes

Pocket Lint reports that when the PlayStation VR processor unit is connected to the PlayStation, normally it will feed HDMI to a TV as well as driving the HDR headset. Unfortunately, the website has …

Anders Extends Truly Deal to OLED

by Bob Raikes

andersDX in the UK said that it has agreed to extend its five year agreement with Truly, for whom it is the exclusive distributor. The deal will now cover Truly’s AMOLED displays which are …

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Qualcomm to Sell All of Its 10-Nano APs to Samsung?

by Bob Raikes

ETNews has reported that Qualcomm has committed to supply all of its 10 nanometre production of its next Snapdragon 830 application processor to Samsung for the next (S8?) Galaxy smartphone. The paper reports that …

Cynora Combines Efficiency with Long Life in TADF

by Bob Raikes

Cynora’s labCynora of Germany has released new data on the development of its TADF OLED materials that are claimed to combine both high efficiency and long lifetime, for blue emission and keeps the company …

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Google Supports Dolby Vision in Ultra Puck

by Bob Raikes

Google had a busy week at its Pixel developers’ conference this week and said it would start to deliver video content in UltraHD to its ‘Google Play Movies & TV’ service in November. The …

Apple’s Universal Search in Five More Countries

by Yvette Raikes

Apple TV’s universal search function is now available in Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden, bringing the total to 11 countries. This feature allows a voice or text search to get results from …

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Medical Channel Consolidates Networks

by Yvette Raikes

The Australian waiting room digital signage network, Medical Channel, has raised £25 million to buy its rival, Community Network. Medical Channel was founded in 2012 and at the start of 2016 was operating on …

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ViewSonic Refreshes Partner Programme in Germany

by Milos Pavlovic

ViewSonic Sales Director, Dominic MeinViewSonic in Germany has launched a new partnership programme for its desktop and large format monitors as well as its projectors. The company uses Ingram Micro, Also and Delo for …

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SPIL, KYEC grabs orders for MediaTek 10nm chips

by Bob Raikes

Unconfirmed reports from Taiwan say that Mediatek’s next AP, the Helio X30, will be made by TSMC with a 10nanometre process. The chip has two ARM Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.8 GHz, four ARM …