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Too Much from Lenovo….

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo had a huge range of new products at CES, but was not showing publicly on the show floor. Fortunately, we have friends in high places and we were able to meet the company …

NPD Looks at Wearables and Fitness

by Bob Raikes

NPD held its annual event at CES and we have reported and enjoyed it for a number of years. We loved it in years gone by when Ross Young of DisplaySearch made his “death …

Toshiba is Re-Assessing its US TV Plans

by Bob Raikes

Toshiba did not announce any new TVs at CES earlier this month; a surprising move for a company that has been in the US market for several decades. It appears that this may have …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| toshiba| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 03

The PC is not Dead Yet

by Bob Raikes

This is a good summary of why the PC is not going away anytime soon. Meko’s monitor forecasts have been (relatively) positive for the same reasons, despite the clamour a couple of years ago …

Tags:PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Samsung Displays Sets the Future for Tablets

by Bob Raikes

This week, most of the team was at CES in Las Vegas, so we were unable to get a full issue out of both our newsletters, so we’ve created a combined issue, rather than …

So what the !?XXX is a Qwuxga?

by Bob Raikes

I make no apology for quoting display industry veteran, Mark Fihn of Veritas & Visus, in his memorable question “What the !??XXX is a Qwuxga?”. Mark was commenting on the ridiculousness of the acronymns used by …

Tags:ISE 2015| Resolution| Vol 22 - Issue 03

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Kent Display Shows New Products at CES 2015

by Bob Raikes

Kent Display sells a unique type of display. With a black background, it is a note taking pad that can replace pen and paper. Some versions allow saving the notes too. AT CES 2015, …

Tags:CES 2015

Intel Gives a Keynote – and Might Have Convinced us About Realsense

by Bob Raikes

Intel’s Brian Krzanich gave a keynote address for the second year in a row. Intel also had a booth with its partners. In his keynote, Krzanich said that we are on a wave of …

ViXS powers first 4K Ultra HD HEVC 10-Bit OTT media player

by Bob Raikes

Vixs was showing different tone mapping strategies for HDR contentViXS has had a good time recently as it has been ahead of most of its competition with UltraHD support in the XCode 6400. The …

Display Daily Changes

by Bob Raikes

I’m at the CES show and that means plenty of technology stories to talk about (although it seemed a bit quiet on the first day), but I thought I should update you on the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 02

Sigma Launches UltraHD VP9/HEVC Chip

by Bob Raikes

The first topic that we discussed with Sigma Designs was HDR technology. Sigma was the first company to support Dolby Vision technology in its SoCs and both TCL and Philips have shown sets that …