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Plessey Expands European Reach

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Plessey has signed a distribution agreement with Syscom Electronique to expand its European network with coverage in the France and Tunisia markets for its GaN-on-Silicon LED products.

Tags:Distributors| France| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Massive Billboard Installed in Times Square

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A new digital billboard has been erected in New York’s Times Square – one of the largest and most expensive in the world. Running the length of a full city block, the billboard is …

Tags:ClearChannel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mitsubishi| USA

4K Cameras from Canon at CCW

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Canon provided an update on its 4K and HD cameras at CCW, but the star of the Canon show was not a camera but a wide zoom ratio 4K lens for cameras with a …

Tags:Cameras| Canon| CCW 2014 (Content & Communications World)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Ingenic SoC Supports Two Screen Technologies

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China’s Ingenic has developed an asymmetric, dual-core MIPS-based chip for 301, as well as a 15 x 13mm development kit. The Newton2 dev kit includes the new processor (M200), eMCP memory, power management controller, …

Tags:China| Chips| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| SOCs| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Graphics Market Begins Return to Traditional Trends

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After the turmoil of the recession, the graphics chip market appears to be (finally) returning to its typical seasonality, says Jon Peddie Research (JPR), having estimated shipments in Q3’14. The third quarter is traditionally …

Tags:GPUs| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Best Buy Licenses Sharp Brand

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Best Buy and Sharp have signed a licensing agreement (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 43) which allows the US chain to use Sharp’s brand on three recently released HDTVs. The new line comprises 32″, …

Tags:Best Buy| Large Display Monitor| sharp| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Hon Hai, Innolux to Set-up Joint Panel Plant

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Hon Hai Precision and Innolux are to invest NT$50 billion ($1.6 billion) in a joint venture 6G panel production plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to produce LTPS panels for smartphones. Sources suggest that the plant …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Innolux| LCD Fabs| LTPS TFT| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Advanced Advertising at the NYC Television Week

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The NYC Television Week hosted another conference that focused on Advanced Advertising in the TV space. There were several panels focusing on topics from big data, targeting advertising and programmatic TV (automated and dynamic …

Tags:Advertising| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Television Week| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Video Everywhere Requires New Technology

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There was a further panel discussion on the future of video everywhere and the measures needed to improve the delivery on every screen. The title of the session was “Technology Improving Video Delivery on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NYC Television Week| OTT Video| Vol 21 - Issue 46

4K Cameras from Blackmagic and Red at CCW

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Blackmagic Design was showing its new 4K URSA camera, which was introduced at NAB. After NAB, Chris Chinnock wrote about it and posted a video http://tinyurl.com/pkyxsmq. The big news about URSA from CCW is …

Tags:4K DCI| Cameras| CCW 2014 (Content & Communications World)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Red| Vol 21 - Issue 46

EC Appoints Ziggo Monitor

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Following the final approval last month by the European Commission of Liberty Global’s acquisition of Dutch cable operator Ziggo, the Commission has appointed a monitoring trustee to oversee the transaction. CompetitionRx, a London-based company …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Liberty Global| Netherlands| Vol 21 - Issue 46

MDM Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 46

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The Tab 8W from Acer (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36) is now available in Europe, starting at £135 ($210). The company has also started to sell the Liquid Leap smartband (Display Monitor Vol …

Tags:Acer| Convertible PCs| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Printable Display| Samsung| Smartphones| Smartwatches| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 46