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UltraHD Sports Arriving in August

by Tom Allen

BT will launch an UltraHD sports channel in the UK this August. A new YouView+ set-top box, with 1TB of storage, will also be launched at the same time, and will be supplied to …

Optoma Brings Middle East to Milan

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeA VR underwater landscape, set in the Arabian Sea, and a projection of a Middle Eastern kitchen were created by LM Productions for the Milan Expo (1st May – 31st October). The …

German Companies Co-operate for T2 Rollout

by Tom Allen

Several German companies have organised a joint initiative for the introduction of the DVB-T2 platform in the country. Public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, with commercial broadcasters RTL and ProSieben Sat.1, industry association VPRT and …

Tags:Broadcasters| DVB-T & T2| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Samsung Debuts Mirror and Transparent OLEDs

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s past virtual fitting room applications have used LCD screens and cameras Samsung Display has shown off new OLED panels at Retail Asia Expo 2015 (RAE), which it says are the world’s first-such transparent …

Tags:AMOLED| Large Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Transparent Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Vukunet is NEC Success Story

by Tom Allen

NEC’s Vukunet ad serving platform has achieved more than 1.8 billion ad impressions – in 100,000 locations – since it was launched.

Nvidia Patent Shows HMD With Own GPU

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeNvidia has filed a patent for a VR headset, with its own CPU, GPU and storage built in. The unit will use six cameras – two forward, two down and two to …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| Patents| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sony Skimps on Storage

by Tom Allen

Website XperiaBlog has found that Sony’s M4 Xperia Aqua (Sony Improves the Look of its Waterproof Devices) is supplied with just 1.2GB of usable storage. The phone has 8GB of storage built in, but …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| storage| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Samsung Ruggedises S6 Flagship

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s Galaxy Active line-up is expanding with the Galaxy S6 Active smartphone: an iteration on its current flagship. Built with rugged use in mind, the S6 Active is housed in an IP68-compliant housing. It …

New LCD Lines for Innolux

by Tom Allen

Innolux president JC Wang has said that the company will construct new G8.6 LCD facilties, entering mass production in Q3’15. Monthly capacity is expected to be 40,000 glass substrates. Panels sized from 40″ – …

IPTV Rises Quickly in Spain

by Tom Allen

The Spanish pay-TV regulator, CNMC, says that the market in Spain reached 5.1 million subscribers at the end of last year – with 345,000 new customers in Q4. 325,000 of these were IPTV subscribers. …

Fraunhofer’s Discrete Glasses Compensate for Vision Defects

by Tom Allen

A team at Fraunhofer IOF have developed a way to produce AR glasses in a smaller, less prominent form factor. These glasses – to be shown at Laser World of Photonics in Munich (22nd …

Christie Breaks Newly-Set Record

by Tom Allen

Hexogon Solution used Christie projectors to accomplish a new Guinness world record, for the highest light output in a projected image ever produced in a single event. 160 Roadster HD20K-J and S+22K-J projectors were …