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ZTE Brings Auto Focus to Smart Projectors

by Tom Allen

ZTE USA, a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation (Shenzhen, China), announced its second generation mobile smart projector.  The Spro 2 is a follow-on unit to the initial smart projector announced by ZTE at CES 2014 and introduced by Sprint …

Tags:CES 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| Pico Projectors| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 03| ZTE

Philips UltraHD TV

Philips Goes All-Out With Android

by Tom Allen

Philips and US-licensee Funai share space in the Renaissance hotel, next to the Convention Centre. The companies were mostly gathering feedback on their products for the year. A major announcement by TP Vision (the …

Tags:CES 2015| Funai| Large Display Monitor| Laser| Mobile Display Monitor| Philips| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Apple Watch To Launch by March?

by Tom Allen

9to5Mac, quoting ‘sources familiar with the matter’, claims that the Apple Watch will go on sale in the USA in March. While a date is not provided, the website has previously put forward 20th …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Wearables

NEC E705 LCD display

NEC Offers Large-Format LCD as Projector Replacement

by Tom Allen

Aiming to provide a projector replacement for conference rooms, NEC’s new Multisync E-series LCD display supports multiple different peripherals through its OPS slots. The slot can be used to attach PCs, tuner modules, HDBaseT …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| Vol 22 - Issue 03

FlatFrog InGlass Wins PC OEM

by Tom Allen

Flatfrog Laboratories is ramping up production of its InGlass touch modules for AIO PCs, which will be used by an unnamed ‘top tier’ OEM in North America. Shipments began in December. The first AIO …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Casio Has Plans for Core Business

by Tom Allen

At BETT, Casio was launching the Core – a new laser-LED hybrid projector that is positioned for mass-market adoption. As a solid-state model, the Core has a long lifetime, with no filters or lamps …

Tags:BETT 2015| Casio| Hybrid LED (Laser)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 05

Rumour: Flexible OLEDs From Foxconn Next Year

by Tom Allen

Asian sources claim that Foxconn is developing flexible OLED panel technology and expects to send out 5″ samples in 2016. Reports from Japanese media say that the panels will be used on smartphones and …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Sensio’s UltraHD 3D Format is Lossless

by Tom Allen

Sensio Technologies has launched a new 3D format called Sensio 3D/4K, which is optimised for UltraHD 3D TVs. The format enables the distribution of high-definition 3D content, without stereoscopic compression loss. It is compatible …

Tags:3D| 3D Formats| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Modder Jams Together Console and Monitor

by Tom Allen

Modder Ben Heck has, in the past, turned his skills to creating portable gaming laptops based on an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. His newest challenge saw him turn an Xbox One into a …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04| xBox

Nico Vernieuwe TPV

High Five with Nico Vernieuwe of TPV Technology Group

by Tom Allen

Nico Vernieuwe has a long history in both telecommunications and displays. For 18 years he worked at Alcatel-Lucent, across both Europe and the USA, before moving to an eight-year employment at Barco. While there …

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Nick Rogers

High Five with Nick Rogers of PMA

by Tom Allen

Nick Rogers is the president of PMA Research, a market information company specialising in large-screen displays – especially projectors. PMA was founded in 1992 and provides worldwide market data on all projectors – from …

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Christoph Dassau Ingram Micro

High Five with Christoph Dassau of Ingram Micro

by Tom Allen

We recently decided to introduce a new feature that we’re calling ‘High Five’. We’re asking industry insiders five questions, each with five topics. Who better to start with than someone that has been at …

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