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Oculus Improving Go Rendering

by Bob Raikes

More details are appearing on the Oculus Go, a standalone mobile VR headset that is being developed, after Oculus spoke at the GDC. The headset will have a single 2560 x 1440 LCD display …

SelfArray’s Good Vibrations are Rewarded

by Bob Raikes

Everybody (well almost everybody!) agrees that LED is a good prospect for a range of applications from wearable displays to large area outdoor displays and including TVs. All you have to do is lay …

Tags:MicroLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Gloves Come Off in TV Market

by Bob Raikes

The market for premium TVs, which was competitive last year, is looking to hot up in 2018 with Sony announcing much more aggressive prices for 2018 models, LG planning a big boost in supply …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Pricing| sony| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Best Buy Will No Longer Sell Huawei Products

by Bob Raikes

Best Buy has announced that it will no longer carry Huawei laptops, smartwatches or phones, including the Honor sub-brand, due to increasing political pressure. Verizon and AT&T both recently backed out of partnerships with …

Tags:Best Buy| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Samsung Exynos 7 Series 9610 Improves Image Processing

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Electronics announced its latest application processor (AP), the Exynos 7 Series 9610, which is built on Samsung’s 10-nanometer (nm) FinFET process to allow processing including FullHD video recording at 480fps. Vision and image …

Tags:Application Processors| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Leyard Shows Us Around

by Bob Raikes

We then had a quick briefing at each of the four key product demo areas Rental & Staging Corporate, Collaboration and Retail Broadcast Control Rooms Rental & Staging In rental, the key development recently …

Leyard Sets Out its Plans

by Bob Raikes

CEO of the European business, Marco Bruines, a veteran of the BarcoLeyard JV, opened the event. The company is developing its presence in Europe (the parent is, of course, Chinese – Man. Ed) and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Leyard Barcelona 2018| Outdoor Displays| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Leyard Hosts Showroom Opening in Barcelona

by Bob Raikes

Leyard opened a new European showroom in Barcelona and invited us to visit for the opening event. We wouldn’t normally go all that way for such an event, but we were able to combine …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Leyard Barcelona 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 11

UltraHD Projector Market is Growing Well

by Bob Raikes

We saw a quote in an Asian source that reported a forecast that 4K home cinema projector sales will grow from 80,000 in 2017 to 680,000 in 2021. The source of the data wasn’t …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Projectors| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Acer Improves with PC & Display Focus

by Bob Raikes

Acer reached sales of NT$237.28 billion ($8.1 billion) in 2017, up 2%, while it moved back into profit at NT$2.82 billion ($96.4 million), a turnaround from a loss in 2016. The company has seen …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Google To Buy Lytro

by Bob Raikes

Google is buying light field pioneer company, Lytro for a deal that is reported to be somewhere between $25 million and $40 million although one report claims that Google is getting only the assets …

Socionex Claims World’s Smallest 8K Media Player

by Bob Raikes

Socionext said that it would show a new media player that can support 8K at the forthcoming DSE show. As well as supporting four 4K panels through HDMI 2.0, the company said that it …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 11