Vol 24 – Issue 13 – Page 4

Deutsche Telekom to Offer Free Add-On Streaming for Mobiles

by Alan Spencer

Deutsche Telekom, the German telco, will be allowing its mobile customers to stream music and video from selected partners from 19th April. StreamOn, the name of the service, will be at the standard speed …

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Foldable Phones May Not be Commercialised Until 2019

by Alan Spencer

According to Business Korea, Samsung Display believes that the world is unlikely to see the commercialisation of foldable smartphones for two years. Samsung does not need to sell new handsets with foldable displays as …

AUO Has New Monitor Panels Planned

by Bob Raikes

AUO has released more details of the panel used in the prototype HDR monitors that were shown by Acer and Asus at the recent CES. The M270QAN02.2 panels are 27″ UltraHD units with a …

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Netflix Adds Offline Viewing to Windows 10 PCs

by Alan Spencer

Netflix has introduced offline viewing for Windows 10 PCs and mobiles, with the update available from the Windows Store. At the end of last year, Netflix added this feature on Google Android and Apple …

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Loewe adds Dolby Vision & HLG to OLED TV

by Bob Raikes

Loewe in Germany has updated its Bild 7 OLED TV, launched at IFA, with new firmware to support both Dolby Vision and HLG format HDR.

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Samsung’s Tizen “Worst Code I’ve Ever Seen”

by Milos Pavlovic

The Motherboard blog has described the Samsung Tizen OS as a ‘Hacker’s Dream’ and a researcher said that he had found 40 vulnerabilities and the site quotes the researcher as saying “It may be …

Eizo MIL Test Facility Completed

by Bob Raikes

Eizo has completed the building of a new facility for the testing of products to MIL standards at its headquarters in Hakusan, Japan. MIL standards mandates materials that can be used remain stable under …

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Foxconn Result 06/04/2017

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) posted record Q4 net profits of NTD68.77 billion ($2.3 billion), up 30% from NTD52.93 ($1.7 billion) in Q4 ’15, on turnover which fell 2% to NTD1.4 trillion ($46.1 …

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Insight TV Adds Content to M7 Group’s Customers

by Alan Spencer

Insight TV is now providing UHD and HD channels to Luxembourg-based M7 Group, for broadcast on CanalDigitaal (Netherlands), two Belgian cable networks, Skylink in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and HD Austria. Bill Wijdeveld, …

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Opera TV and Zype Launch OTT Offering

by Alan Spencer

Opera TV and Zype have announced the launch of a fully-integrated, end-to-end distribution solution for video content owners to maximize advertising revenue through the Opera TV Store. World Poker Tour and Shout! Factory are …

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Samsung Rocks CinemaCon with New LED Screen for Theatres

by Chris Chinnock

The biggest technology buzz from CinemaCon was the announcement that Samsung has developed an HDR LED video wall solution specifically tailored for the cinema market. Called the Samsung Cinema Screen, this was earth shattering …

Cinema Roll Outs

by Chris Chinnock

Below is a compilation of announced cinema roll outs from the major players. Dolby Dolby Laboratories, Inc. said that Wanda Cinema Line Corporation Ltd. plans to purchase 800 units of Dolby digital cinema processors, …