Vol 23 - Issue 50

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So What is Y-OCTA?

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is lining up to launch its next smartphone (which forecasters are calling the ‘S8’) and last week we saw a report that it would use a touch technology called ‘Y-OCTA’, used in the …

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New UHD Travel Channel will Use HLG

by Bob Raikes

SES said that Travelxp 4K will use the SES-1 satellite in North America from January, bringing the total of UltraHD channels being broadcast by SES to 30, 21 of which are commercial. Interestingly, the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Satellite| SES| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Google Launches Android Chrome WebVR Support

by Bob Raikes

Google has launched support for the WebVR APIs in Android, via support in the Chrome browser, which should mean support for users of Cardboard or DayDream compatible devices. There is a website for developers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Samsung To Show ‘QLED’ at CES

by Bob Raikes

A report from the Maeil Business News suggests that Samsung will show a “new type of self-emitting UHD LCD TV powered by quantum dots” at the upcoming CES event. The report also suggests that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 50

NPD Expects 239 Million Connected TVs by 2019

by Milos Pavlovic

NPD said that it expects 238 million ‘installed’ devices to be connected to the internet and able to deliver apps to TVs in the US by 2019, 59% up from the number in 2015. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| NPD| Smart TV| STBs| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 50

NPD Partners with Tru Optik on OTT TV Data

by Bob Raikes

NPD said that it has made a partnership with Tru Optik, which claims to be “ the only audience measurement and data management platform built for OTT. Through the partnership, NPD will have access …

Tags:audience measurement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

SoftAtHome Used by Swisscom

by Bob Raikes

SoftAtHome said that its software is being used in customer premises equipment (CPE) from Swisscom, more precisely in the Internet-Box 2 home gateway. The box has seven antennae for otimised Wi-Fi and the box …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Switzerland| Vol 23 - Issue 50

You.i TV Goes Out-of-Box

by Bob Raikes

We met with You.i TV at IBC (You.i TV Wants to Exploit GPUs) and the company explained its approach to developing OTT services, using the power of GPUs and Adobe After Effects to develop …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Vimeo Updates Apps on HTML5

by Bob Raikes

Vimeo, the online video sharing service, has developed new apps for Apple tvOS, Android TV and Samsung SmartTVs based on HTML5. The new apps include a number of features, including: a ‘curated cinema experience’ …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Crestron Room Booking Includes Displays

by Bob Raikes

Crestron has launched a range of room booking systems that can connect to corporate scheduling systems such as Exchange, IBM Notes and Google Calendar and include touch displays with 7″ diagonal. There are also …

Tags:Crestron| Large Display Monitor| Meeting Rooms| Vol 23 - Issue 50

IDC Looks at A/R & V/R

by Bob Raikes

Not wanting to be left out of the slew of numbers about VR & AR, IDC has released some data. Worldwide AR and VR headset shipments are expected to see a CAGR of 108.3% …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Optoma Maps onto M&Ms

by Bob Raikes

Optoma has released a case study of a projection mapping application with M&M’s in the Leicester Square flagship store. There are two pods, where custom CG animations are projection-mapped onto blank M&M bottles. This …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Optoma| Projection Mapping| Vol 23 - Issue 50