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Taiwanese Smartphone Makers Down in Q3

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research said that smartphone shipments by Taiwan-based vendors declined 35% from Q3 2015 to 12.36 million, with lower than expected shipments from HTC, Asustek Computer and Acer which meant lower orders for assemblers …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 45

MSI & Dell to Go for Gaze

by Bob Raikes

Taiwanese sources claim that MSI and Dell will join Acer in adding Tobii’s gaze recognition technology to products. Acer announced products with gaze recognition at the recent IFA 2016 event. (Acer Jumps onto Gaze …

Asus AR Phone at CES?

by Bob Raikes

Asus is expected to be the second company after Lenovo with its Phab phone, to have a smartphone with Google Tango, the company’s CEO, Jerry Shen has said. The Google Tango platform is for …

LG In Trouble with Gamers for OLED Input Lag

by Bob Raikes

Gamers have raised complaints about input lag on LG’s HDR OLED TVs and have put a petition on change.org asking LG to do something about the delay which is said to be around 50ms …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Unipixel Client Wins Microsoft Approval

by Bob Raikes

Unipixel said that a customer, using its touchscreen sensor, has been awarded Pen Digitizer Certification for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 by Microsoft. Unipixel said that the stylus protocol in this device is …

Videocon D2H to Merge With Dish TV

by Bob Raikes

Videocon d2h in India will merge with Dish TV in India to create Dish TV Videocon which is expected to create a platform with 27.6 million subscribers (out of 175 million TV households). Analyst …

Tags:India| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Vol 23 - Issue 45

JDI to Cut 30% of Jobs – May Get More Cash

by Bob Raikes

Japan Display Inc has said that it will reduce its staff levels by 30% – around 4,700 jobs according to Reuters and the WSJ. The company is also reported to be in advanced discussions …

Tags:Financial Data| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 45

HDR10 to Win Tech Battle

by Bob Raikes

Strategy Analytics has created a report, “High Dynamic Range TV: Content and Technology Implications”, that looks at the implications of HDR. Looking at competing HDR technologies, the report concludes that HDR10 has already become …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Stream TV to Work with Signagelive

by Bob Raikes

Stream TV Networks, which specialises in glasses-free S3D has announced a deal with Signagelive, which provides cloud-based digital signage software. IAdea will supply the XMP-7300 4K media player, which has been made compatible with …

Eyevis Wins Control Room in Glasgow

by Bob Raikes

Eyevis of Germany said that it has been successful in winning a number of Smart City security and transport Operations Centre projects throughout the UK. An example is a deal, won with contractor IBI, …

Tags:Control Rooms| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 45

BBC to Release VR Film for Daydream

by Bob Raikes

The BBC has confirmed that it will launch a new VR film, “The Turning Forest” free on Google’s Daydream platform. A trailer has already been shown (with pretty good binaural audio, so use headphones …

Tags:AR/VR| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Industry News is Quiet – Has Something Been Happening?

by Bob Raikes

Well, I’m beginning to think I have to stop travelling to Munich. On Wednesday morning, I woke up in my accommodation in Munich to find that Donald Trump had been elected US president. In …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 44