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HTC: Ready Player One Boosts VR Interest in China

by Bob Raikes

HTC China’s president Alvin Wang Graylin has said that the popularity of Ready Player One, the recent movie release from Steven Spielberg, will encourage more people to purchase VR equipment over the next 12 …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Microsoft Surface Hub 2 is Radically Different from Hub

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has announced a new version of its 50.5″ Surface Hub, the Surface Hub 2 which is quite different from the previous version and is more like the Samsung Flip. It is smaller and …

Tags:Collaboration| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 25 - Issue 19

H & M Tests Voice Interactive Mirror

by Bob Raikes

Hat tip to Invidis for pointing out that Swedish company, Visualart, has developed an interactive mirror display for the H&M fashion brand that uses voice and face recognition for control, eliminating one of the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| Retail| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Macroblock Wins Samsung Business, Optimistic on microLED

by Bob Raikes

Macroblock is reckoned to be the biggest supplier of LED driver chips for video displays (and the second largest maker of all LED drivers) and is based in Taiwan. The LEDInside blog reports that …

Tags:Display Drivers| Large Display Monitor| LED| MicroLED| MiniLED| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Peerless Boosts European Distribution

by Bob Raikes

Peerless has announced a deal with AGMulTivision of Milan for distribution in Italy. Under the new agreement with Peerless-AV, AGMULTIVISION will be responsible for sales, marketing, customer support and distribution activities in Italy for …

Tags:Distribution| Italy| Large Display Monitor| Peerless AV| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Apple and Samsung Patent Fight Resumes

by Bob Raikes

Apple and Samsung are in court again in another battle in the ongoing war over five patents. This is the third court case and the war has been going on since 2011. The key …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Warranty Week Updates on Costs

by Bob Raikes

Warranty Week has published a survey of the US computer industry that looks at warranty costs. 330 companies were checked (although this did not include Dell, which is now private, and Microsoft which does …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 19| warranty

Can FMMs be Made by Electroforming?

by Bob Raikes

A group at the New Material Engineering Department of Sunchon University in Korea, led by Professor Park Yong-Bum, has published a paper describing a new method of electroforming invar material (in comparison to rolling …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Vapour Deposition| Vol 25 - Issue 19

ViewSonic Claims Six Hour Battery for Projector

by Bob Raikes

ViewSonic has a new ultra-portable DLP LED projector that features 250 Ansi lumens with 858 x 480 resolution and a 1.2:1 throw ratio, for inages from 24″ to 100″. The unit has a claimed …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Portable Projectors| ViewSonic| Vol 25 - Issue 19

HP 38″ Wins Good Review

by Bob Raikes

We don’t usually bother to mention routine monitor reviews, but we were interested to see a review on the Toms Hardware site of the HPZ38c 38″ 3840 x 1600 desktop monitor. Toms tends to …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 19

AOC Monitor Runs via USB Type-C

by Bob Raikes

AOC has a new 15.6″ FullHD monitor, the I1601FWUX, using an IPS panel that runs via USB Type-C with the DisplayPort Alt mode and power to allow single cable connectivity to notebook PCs. With …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Notebooks| USB Monitors| Vol 25 - Issue 19

AOC Monitor Runs via USB Type-C

by Bob Raikes

AOC has a new 15.6″ FullHD monitor, the I1601FWUX, using an IPS panel that runs via USB Type-C with the DisplayPort Alt mode and power to allow single cable connectivity to notebook PCs. With …

Tags:MMD (AOC Philips)| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| USB Monitors| Vol 25 - Issue 19