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Loewe Brings UltraHD Down to 40″

by Bob Raikes

Loewe has released its latest ‘bild 5’ range of edge-lit LCD TVs in Europe. The UltraHD sets (except the 32″ which is FullHD) will range in size from 32″ to 55″ and will be …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Winners of Stereo 3D Competition

by Bob Raikes

As part of the 28th annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference in San Francisco, a number of awards were made for 3D content. Best-of-Show Live-Action Category:”From Great Depths 3D – Witnessing the Wrecks …

Tags:3D| 3D Content Creation| Awards| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05

MediaTek Chipset Supports Dual-camera Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

MediaTek has released the Helio P25, which uses 16nm Octa core processing and supports single or dual cameras (24 MP or dual 13 MP) with de-noise algorithms and real time shallow depth of field …

Tags:Chips| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Phones| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Analyst: 5G TV Could be Important

by Bob Raikes

TV and video delivery is likely to become a core capability of next generation 5G wireless services, concludes a new report from Strategy Analytics. Recent demonstrations have suggested that 5G will support 1Gbps data …

Tags:5G| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Lenovo Unveil Budget A12 Yoga Book

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo has a new, cheaper, version of its Yoga Book which has a 360º hinge for use as a tablet or noteboo. The display is a 12.2″ IPS unit with just 1280 x 800 …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05

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V-Nova Buys Faroudja Patents

by Bob Raikes

V-Nova, based in London and developer of the Perseus codec, has bought the ‘full global patent portfolio’ of Faroudja Enterprises Inc, founded by Yves Faroudja. The key patents for V-Nova are those that can …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| V-Nova| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Visual Processing Market Poised to Take Off

by Bob Raikes

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) launched its quarterly report on the Visual Processing Unit (VPU) market. Capturing, and quickly processing tens of megapixels of 10 to 12-bit data at 60 to 120 frames a second, …

Tags:Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Sony Europe Shows 2017 TV Range

by Bob Raikes

Sony has held some meetings in Europe to give more details of their new TVs. We were unable to attend the UK event, but reports from elsewhere have clarified that the company will have …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| sony| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Samsung’s QLED TVs Priced from $2,500

by Bob Raikes

Samsung US has released list pricing for its 2017 ‘QLED’ LCD TVs. Flat Series – Q7F 55″ $2,499.99 65″ $3,499.99 75″ $5,999.99 Curved Q8 series – Q8C 55″ $3,499.99 65″ $4,499.99

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pricing| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 05

TV Panel Prices Still Rising

by Bob Raikes

Witsview has reported that 65″ LCD TV panels are increasing again by between $5 and $10 while 49″ and 50″ units have gone up by $2 or $3. The boost in 65″ is a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Pricing| Vol 24 - Issue 05

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ISE 2017 Catch-Up

by Bob Raikes

As a friend has often said to me, covering major events is like ‘trying to drink from the fire hose’, so you never catch everything at the time. However, we like to cover as …

Tags:Intel| ISE 2017| Large Display Monitor| OPS| Samsung| Scala (now Stratacache)| Smart Digital Signage| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Chinese Smartphone Market Sees19% Growth

by Bob Raikes

The latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker has been published and shows that the Chinese smartphone market grew by 19% in 2016 when compared with 2015. In addition, the last quarter of 2016 saw …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 05