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Sony Forms BIG to Accelerate Time-to-Market

by Tom Allen

Sony’s Future Lab Program is also part of the BIGSony has formed the ‘Business Incubation Group’ – a division to bring together its new concept design and technology products under a single umbrella in …

Epson, InFocus and Aaxa Lead in February

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in February. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. The February results showed Epson topping the …

Beamr Acquires Vanguard

by Tom Allen

Israeli company Beamr, a specialist in video compression whom we have reported on before, has announced that it is acquiring California-based Vanguard Video. Vanguard is a supplier of H.264 and HEVC codec technologies. Beamr’s …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 23 - Issue 12

AOC Shows Gaming Prowess at PCR Boot Camp

by Tom Allen

AOC will take part in the annual PCR Boot Camp, which will be held at the Emirates Stadium, London on the 18th May. The firm will show off four of its newest monitors: the …

Skyworth Rolls Out Seraphic

by Tom Allen

Skyworth has deployed the Blink-based Sraf TV Browser, by Seraphic, to its connected TVs in Europe. The browser supports over 1,000 apps and has been ported to a variety of TV SoCs, including those …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Skyworth| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 12

ATSC Tested at Plug Fest

by Tom Allen

ONE Media and Sinclair Broadcast Group hosted an ATSC 3.0 Plug recently, with the purpose of testing interoperability between modulators and demodulators. Attendees focused on functional validation tests, rather than competing equipment.

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| Testing| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Lilliput Splits Screen

by Tom Allen

China’s Lilliput is now producing an UltraHD carry-on monitor, the 15.6″ BM150-4K – smaller than its existing 28″ and 23″ products in the same series. Four-way split screen is supported, using any of the …

Tags:Field Monitors| Large Display Monitor| SDI| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Nanotech Brings UHD VoD to TVs, Media Players and Mobile

by Tom Allen

Nanotech Entertainment has said that its UltraFlix UltraHD and HD VoD service will be available pre-installed on its partners’ TVs and streaming media players. The app will also be available on modern (three years …

Klassen Moves From Blackberry to Christie

by Tom Allen

Gary Klassen, the inventor of Blackberry Messenger, has joined Christie Canada as the director of solutions software. He will focus on growing a development team to expand Christie’s software capabilities, and will be based …

LCD Panels Fall in Q1’16

by Tom Allen

IHS has released its PriceWise data, which contains predictions of LCD panel prices in March. TV panels The earthquake in Taiwan (Earthquake Rocks Taiwan Production Base) this February, as well as low production yields …

Foxconn-Sharp Deal Falls by $2 Billion

by Tom Allen

Foxconn is trying to reduce its offer to Sharp by 10% – 20%, we heard last week (Foxconn Seeks to Lower Sharp Value), and sources have now named a figure. The Taiwanese company wants …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp

AMOLED Screen, Glass Chassis for iPhone Redesign

by Tom Allen

Ming Chi Kuo, a prominent Apple analyst at KGI Securities, has said in a note to investors that the company will ‘radically’ redesign the iPhone 7. As previously reported (iPhone 7 Case Suggests No …

Tags:AMOLED| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 12