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FandangoNow Joins iTunes and Amazon Video in Movies Anywhere

by Andrew Fenn

FandangoNow is following in the footsteps of iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play and Vudu, becoming the latest online video retailer to join the Movies Anywhere initiative, which allows movie fans to source content from …

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Big Screen TVs for Gaming to be Stutter Proofed

by Jon Peddie

Why should PC gamers have all the fun? Indeed. Just because you can get a large screen 4K UHD beautiful monitor and drive it with a powerful GPU that is used in supercomputer, doesn’t …

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Conax Secures Canal Digital’s New Ultra HD Android TV Service

by Andrew Fenn

Conax has announced a collaboration with Canal Digital to secure its new Android TV-based entertainment service, OnePlace. The new DTH satellite set-top box will provide access to all Google Play content from one unified …

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LRG: Pay TV Subscribers at Major US Providers Down in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

Leichtman Research Group has found that the largest pay TV providers in the US—representing about 95% of the market — lost about 1.5 million net video subscribers in 2017, compared to about 760,000 in …

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Microsoft Shows Off Haptic Controller Research

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent article on the Microsoft Research Blog, Microsoft described an array of haptic controllers that can be used to enhance the experience in a virtual reality environment. In the current state, these …

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Google to Present on HR OLEDs at SID

by Bob Raikes

Last year at SID, Google’s Clay Bavor gave a keynote in which he said that Google was working on systems with 20 megapixels per eye and drew gasps from the assembled engineers. At this …

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Sony Brings AR Projection Concept to SXSW Film Festival

by Andrew Fenn

Sony has unveiled conceptual AR projector technology at this year’s SXSW film festival, currently taking place in Austin, Texas. The technology uses the company’s Xperia Touch projector with its IMX382 high-speed vision sensors and …

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Motorola VR Smartphone Headset Leaks Online

by Andrew Fenn

Motorola is adding a VR headset to its Moto Mods range of smartphone accessories. Images of the headset appeared on Twitter recently. Hardware specifications are currently unavailable and other details, like a release date …

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SID and DSCC Announce Second Automotive Display Market Focus Conference

by Andrew Fenn

The Society for Information Display (SID) and Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) have announced the second Automotive Display Market Focus Conference, which will take place on May 22nd, during Display Week 2018 at the …

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Bose Introduces Audio Augmented Reality Platform

by Andrew Fenn

Bose has introduced its augmented reality platform, Bose AR. The company also announced its SDK schedule date for developers, manufacturers and research institutions, along with collaborations currently under way and venture funding for related …

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Lang and Samsung Electronics Announce New LED Partnership

by Andrew Fenn

Lang and Samsung Electronics have announced they will strengthen their cooperation in the LED segment. Markus Korn, Director of Display Samsung Electronics said: “Customer satisfaction is created foremost through strong partnerships, where everyone contributes …

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