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Wistron to Manufacture iPhone 6C

by Tom Allen

The iPhone 6C (Three iPhone Models Claimed for 2015 Release) will be made by Wistron, say Asian sources. The phone will be released in the second half of 2015; it will have a 4″ …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Getac Expects Growth Above Rugged PC Trend

by Tom Allen

James Hwang, chairman of rugged PC vendor Getac, has said that YoY shipment growth is expected to reach 15% this year. The rugged PC market’s average growth is between 5% and 10%. Getac recently …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 14

NTT Does UltraHD at 4:2:2

by Tom Allen

Japan’s NTT showed off a new professional video encoder LSI, capable of handling UltraHD at 60fps, in real-time. The encoder supports the HEVC codec. According to NTT, the LSI is the first every to …

Tags:Encoders| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Christie Brings HFR to Utah

by Tom Allen

12 of the 13 screens at the new Larry H. Miller Megaplex Theatres in Vineyard, Utah use Christie’s Solaria series projectors. Each of the Christie auditoria is capable of high frame rate projection, and …

Tags:Back Panel| Christie| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 13

UK MPs Choose Apple

by Tom Allen

Every MP in the UK – all 650 of them – will be given an iPad Air 2 after the General Election in May. The plan will cost around £200,000 ($300,000) a year – …

Tags:Back Panel| iPad| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Fraunhofer’s Microdisplay has Colour and Scalable Resolution

by Tom Allen

Fraunhofer FEP will present a new OLED microdisplay at HMI 2015 in Hannover next month (13th – 17th April), which will combine display and camera functions. The new full-colour unit is bi-directional; it is …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Gaze Recognition| Germany| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Analyst Calls Playstation Vue “Dead on Arrival”

by Tom Allen

TDG analyst Joel Espelien has called Sony’s Playstation Vue streaming service, launched in the USA recently, “dead on arrival”. According to Espelien, the service was “well-intentioned” in development, but is out of touch with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| sony| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 13

LG Renews John Lewis Partnership

by Tom Allen

UK retailer John Lewis entered into a partnership with LG to produce an own-brand TV last year: the JL9000 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 18). The successor model, the JL9100, has now been announced. …

Tags:John Lewis Partnership| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Celebrating 90 Years of TV

by Tom Allen

Baird’s TV only had 30 lines of vertical resolutionJohn Logie Baird – the inventor of the television set – showed off his creation in London, 90 years ago. The original box was a gimmick …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 13

SmallHD Claims Sharpest 5″ Camera Monitor

by Tom Allen

A camera monitor the size of a smartphone has been introduced by SmallHD. The unit is described as ‘the sharpest 5″ camera-top monitor in the world’ – it has 1920 x 1080 resolution (441 …

Tags:Field Monitors| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 14

by Tom Allen

A man has fixed his dead laptop by baking it in an oven. Sean Buckley, writing for Gizmodo, fixed his device following a recipe from the world’s greatest cookbook: the internet. The actual problem …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 14