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PC Market On Course for Slight Decline

by Bob Raikes

According to a new forecast from IDC, global shipments of personal computing devices (PCDs), comprised of traditional PCs (a combination of desktop, notebook, and workstations) and tablets (slates and detachables), are expected to continue …

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Roku Boosts its Share in the US

by Bob Raikes

According to research from Parks Associates, in Q1 of 2017, 7% of streaming media players owned by U.S. broadband households were Roku devices, up from one-third in Q1 2016. “Roku emerged early as a …

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Different Use Cases Need Different HMIs

by Bob Raikes

Strategy Analytics has a report on HMIs for sale and said (surprise, surprise!), no one HMI works on every kind of device, user case or context. The firm said that voice is helpful, but …

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BenQ To Preview the SW271 Colour Critical Monitor at IBC

by Bob Raikes

BenQ will show its SW271 monitor at IBC next month, after previewing it at SigGraph. (BenQ Brings New Monitors to Siggraph). The company will be on stand 12.G48 at IBC from 15th–19th September. The …

Peerless-AV Kiosk is Powered by BrightSign

by Bob Raikes

Peerless US has a new All-in-One Kiosk, powered by a BrightSign media player and intended for indoor use. The resolution is FullHD with 60P video decoding onto a 55″ LCD display which has 6 …

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Germany Celebrates 50 Years of CTV at IFA

by Bob Raikes

The quiet of the summer news cycle has been disrupted this week with the launch of new chips from Intel and the announcement of the Galaxy Note 8 in New York. Next week, IFA …

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IFA Celebrates 50 Years of Colour TV

by Bob Raikes

In an article about the fiftieth anniversary of the start of colour TV transmissions in Germany, which started on 25th August 1967, the GfU said that there were 28 models on the market from …

Screen Holdings Can Put Flex OLEDs on Curved Glass

by Bob Raikes

Nikkei Asian Review has reported that Screen Holdings of Kyoto has developed a new equipment item that can help with the attachment of flexible OLED displays onto curved glass substrates up to 80 x …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Production Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Note 8 Features Dual Camera

by Bob Raikes

Samsung held its much previewed launch event for the Note 8 and started by acknowledging the problems with the Note 7 and highlighting the positive feedback it got from many Note 7 users – …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Museum Uses Christie to Switch from Film

by Bob Raikes

The National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, in the US has installed a 6P Christie laser projector to replace a film-based system and has found that the flexibility of digital has allowed the premises …

Intel Updates the Core Range to Gen 8

by Bob Raikes

Intel released its latest chip family, the 8th generation of Intel Core processors. The new chips are claimed to have 40% more performance than the previous 7th generation chips and double the performance of …

Vizio Extends SmartCast to E Series UltraHD Sets

by Bob Raikes

Vizio said that its Smartcast technology will be rolled out on the 2017 E-Series Ultra HD Display models. The software was already supported on the M Series and P Series models and supports Amazon …