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Sony and Epson Battle at 4,000+ Lumens

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in August. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. Epson had a pair of best-selling 4,000+ …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 39

by Tom Allen

AVM Ltd is now offering customers the Christie Roadster HD20k-J and Roadster WU20k-J for £36,000 ($54,685) to trade customers: 45% lower than the original price of £65,000 ($98,730), ex VAT. The EG9100 curved OLED …

Sahara and Clevertouch Win at AV Awards

by Tom Allen

Sahara and Clevertouch entered and were shortlisted for four UK AV Awards this year, which were presented last week. The companies won two of these: Outstanding Contribution to the Industry and Manufacturer of the …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 39

HP Extends Elite Series of Business PCs

by Tom Allen

New notebooks and AIO desktops have been released in HP’s Elite family. Focusing on reliability and durability, for mobile workers, the products are designed to pass MIL-SPEC 810G testing (still pending at time of …

UltraHD Arrives on UK Satellite

by Tom Allen

SES’s UltraHD demo channel is now live in the UK, via the Freesat platform.

Google Learns from Competition With Dual Flagships

by Tom Allen

Google, with partners Huawei and LG, has released two new flagship smartphones. The Nexus 5X, made by LG, is similar to the older Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, while the Nexus 6P (made by …

BlackBody Uses LG Chem Panels in Design Installation

by Tom Allen

The recent London Design Festival held an installation called the Dispertion, which was constructed using LG Chem’s OLED lighting panels. Built by Blackbody, the installation used 550 square panels, as well as some circular …

Iiyama Takes Down LFD Cost

by Tom Allen

Iiyama has developed new large-format Prolite displays with integrated media players. Intended to be affordable, they can play media directly from a USB stick or from a network. The four displays are the LE3240S-B1 …

Tags:Iiyama| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Vol 22 - Issue 39

Android 6.0 Arriving Soon

by Tom Allen

Google has confirmed that the rollout of Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) will begin next week. The software is being made available first on the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P (Google Learns from Competition With Dual …

Tags:Android| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 22 - Issue 39

DTT is ‘Integral’ to European Single Market

by Tom Allen

An infographic by Broadcast Networks Europe has shown the importance of the DTT platform to Europe’s ‘Digital Single Market’. The graphic points out that there are 2,000 channels and 50% of all Europeans used …

ATSC Elevates Physical Layer to Candidate Status

by Tom Allen

The physical layer transmission system for ATSC 3.0 has been elevated to ‘Candidate Status’ by the Advanced Television Systems Committee. Field testing will begin now, in preparation for the standard’s finalisation, expected in 2016. …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 39

Magnets Delay Project Ara

by Tom Allen

We missed this in mid-August, but it appears that Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone has been delayed. The company was planning to hold the components together using electropermanent magnets, but they are said to …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 39