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Has UHD Blu-ray Been Cracked?

by Bob Raikes

A Russian torrent tracker (UltraHDclub) has released a copy of a Blu-ray movie (Smurfs 2) onto Bit Torrent which may suggest that the Blu-ray encryption has been cracked. Although this is not certain, as …

Tags:Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Amazon Video app Coming to Apple TV This Summer?

by Alan Spencer

According to a report by Recode, the Amazon video app will be supported by Apple TV this summer. Apple TV has Netflix, HBO, YouTube, and most other global and local apps but not Amazon …

Saville Buys Panasonic Laser Projectors

by Alan Spencer

Saville Audio Visual in the UK has taken delivery of 16 Panasonic DLP laser projectors for the conference and live events division. The projectors are for hire stock, available through the company’s 12 branches. …

Why LCDs are Not Just Big Chips

by Bob Raikes

This week, IC Insights forecast that because of the current high pricing regime for memory, Samsung might go past Intel in the value of its semiconductor sales in Q2 of this year, the first …

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Meta to Ship 10,000 Dev Kits in 2017

by Bob Raikes

The editor trying the Meta Headset at AWE in 2016We reported on Meta from the Augmented World Expo last year (Meta Misjudges the AWE Tone) and the company said that it started shipping its …

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Amazon FreeTime Now Available in Google Play Store

by Alan Spencer

Amazon has added its FreeTime app to Google Play so now children can access books, videos, YouTube videos, and websites on an Android mobile phone or tablet. The basic service is free. FreeTime Unlimited …

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TADF Workshop to be held in Kyushu, Japan

by Alan Spencer

The International TADF Workshop 2017 will take place on 20th and 21st July at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. The workshop is free and is organised by the university with the aim to share the …

Logando Introduces a Mobile Configurable LED Wall Structure

by Alan Spencer

The Leipzig AV company, Logando, has developed a mobile 50 m² LED wall display with 5.9 mm pixel pitch. It has two 50 m² walls which are custom made and have a resolution of …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Outdoor Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 18

The Italian OTT Service Chili Nears 1 million Subscribers

by Alan Spencer

Chili, the Italian VoD platform, added over 100,000 new customers last month, and expects to reach one million subscribers during May. If this is achieved, Chili, would have achieved its target four months earlier …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| VOD| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Slow Uptake of OTT Services in the MENA Region

by Alan Spencer

The boom in smartphones and Internet use is transforming traditional TV viewing patterns in the Middle East and North Africa, according to the Frost & Sullivan report, “OTT Video Services to Transform TV Viewing …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 18

OLED Microdisplays Can be Used for Fingerprints

by Bob Raikes

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP said that it would show an OLED on silicon device with integrated photodiodes that can be used as a fingerprint detector as …

Tags:Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 18

VR and the Future of Car Design

by Bob Raikes

design and innovation company Seymourpowell showed the new ways they’re using Virtual Reality (VR) to design cars at this year’s London Motor Show, with all the software coded from scratch, in-house. The core functionality …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 18