Vol 23 – Issue 39 – Page 5

HTC Seeks Ideas For Vive Accessories

by Yvette Raikes

HTC is running a competition inviting participants to suggest an idea for a Vive accessory. The Viveport community forum will then vote on the ideas and the best three will win a free Vive …

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Holland Rumoured to Get Amazon Prime

by Yvette Raikes

Amazon Prime looks to be coming to the Netherlands next year. Although the company normally keeps quiet about future launches, the CEO of RTL Nederland says that Amazon is buying the rights to several …

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Vodafone Romania launches TV, strikes Netflix deal

by Bob Raikes

Vodafone has entered the Romanian TV market with an application called 4GTV+ which allows smartphone users to view TV content within 72 hours of transmission on the system. The company is also offering Netflix …

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Acer Named Official Partner for 2016 League of Legends

by Isaac Oburu

Acer are the official partners for 2016 League of Legends World Championships and 2016 All Star Event; Riot Games announced. Acer will be supplying their Predator XB1 (XB241H).

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CGR France Chooses Christie Laser

by Bob Raikes

CGR Cinemas of France, a nationwide chain, is upgrading projection in selected outlets with the Solaria CP42LH RGB laser projector from Christie. Installed and supported by Cine Digital Service, the projectors will be part …

Crystalplex Gets Patent for Sapphire Quantum Dots

by Bob Raikes

Crystalplex Corp. announced that it has been awarded US Patent No. 9,425,253, “Passivated Nanoparticles,”. The patent, which claims the fabrication and use of Sapphire quantum dots, or passivated quantum dots with improved stability, was …

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Japanese Update Bus Shelters

by Yvette Raikes

MCDecaux, the Japanese subsidiary of JCDecaux, has won two 20-year contracts for providing advertising in bus shelters from Fuji Express and Tokyo Bus Corporation. The agreements cover design, installation, maintenance and operation. MCDecaux now …

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German Church Shows Video Art

by Yvette Raikes

Digital signage has few outlets in DACH churches and moving images are almost unheard of, according to Invidis. However Munich artist, Stefan Hunstein, has an installation in St Paul’s of seven young people of …

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Amscreen Wins Digital Phone Box Contract

by Bob Raikes

Amscreen of the UK said that it will be supplying the digital phone boxes for a new roll out by Clear Channel UK under the name of Adshel Live. Amscreen said that it has …

Epistar to Increase LED Capacity by 300%

by Bob Raikes

Taiwan sources say that LED maker, Epistar of Taiwan, is to increase its capacity for CSP (chip scale package) LEDs that are used in TV backlights, by 300%. The chips have previously been used …

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Flexible OLED Under Development that Uses Graphene

by Arthur Berman

A team from Pohang University of Science and Technology (Pohang, South Korea) is developing an OLED that is claimed to be extremely flexible as well as very efficient when compared to current OLED technologies. …

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LG OLEDs Reach Reference Studio Monitor Class

by Steve Sechrist

Remember the gold standard ($50K or so) CRT reference studio monitors for the broadcast industry? They’ve just been matched by a commercial class OLED TV, according to Dr. Ray Soneira and the recent DisplayMate …