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R-series is Barco’s Thin, Light LED Solution

by Tom Allen

Barco’s R-series of LED displays uses a very thin, lightweight and flexible design, and is capable of attaching to almost any surface – including curved ones. Described as a ‘digital media canvas’, Barco believes …

Tags:Barco| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Fujitsu’s Mobile Workstation is Close to Desktop Performance

by Tom Allen

Fujitsu has released its ‘most powerful ever’ mobile workstation, which brings the product category closer to the performance of desktop units. Available now, the Celsius H760 is a 15.6″ workstation can accomplish all that …

Tags:Fujitsu| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22| Workstations

Eizo Takes Panasonic Monitor Business

by Tom Allen

Eizo has agreed to acquire Panasonic Healthcare’s endoscopy monitor business. It is part of a move by Eizo to expand its presence in specialised markets like industry and healthcare. The acquisition means that Eizo …

Tags:Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Panasonic| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Lightspeed Develops High-Quality VR Player

by Tom Allen

Lightspeed Design has built a new VR player platform called the DepthQ VR Film Experience, using its own DQVR codec. The player supports 4:4:4 encoding and CUDA real-time processing. One of the first experiences …

Tags:Media Players| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Asus Brings 240Hz to Computex

by Tom Allen

When we covered Asus’ presence at Computex last week (Asus is Firmly in Phablets), we missed out on some of the company’s new monitors – none of which have full specifications yet, but are …

Tags:Asus| Computex 2016| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22

LG Claims 30-Year OLED Lifetime

by Tom Allen

The Korea Times has visited an LG Electronics OLED TV manufacturing facility, detailing the testing that goes into each set – and finding an interesting tidbit about OLED lifetimes. Reporters were invited to view …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Gartner: Smartphone Growth Will Halve

by Tom Allen

Gartner’s predictions for the global smartphone market are slightly – but only slightly – more positive than IDC’s recent figures (Brands Shorten Lifecycles as Smartphone Slowdown Continue). Gartner expects growth to roughly halve YoY, …

Tags:Gartner| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 22| Worldwide

Allegro Adds HEVC Test Streams

by Tom Allen

Allegro DVT has extended its HEVC test suites with new test streams. The MV-HEVC stream is a multiview extension profile of HEVC; it provides the means to encode content with multiple camera views, to …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 23 - Issue 22

OnePlus Ships Free VR Viewers

by Tom Allen

Image credit: Venture BeatChina’s OnePlus has designed a VR viewer specifically to promote the launch of its next flagship phone. 30,000 units, which require a smartphone to act as the display, were given away …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Bloomberg: Samsung’s Bendable Phones at MWC 2017

by Tom Allen

Bloomberg sources have revealed more details about the rumoured bendable smartphones (codenamed Project Valley), which are said to be under development by Samsung. There will be two units, expected to be unveiled in early …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Samsung Goes Active – Again

by Tom Allen

A rugged version of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 (Samsung Chooses VR, Cameras and Gaming), the Galaxy S7 Active, has been unveiled by AT&T. Compared to last year’s S6 Active, the new model features a Snapdragon …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Batteries, Displays and Connectivity Are Key for Mobile

by Tom Allen

Gartner’s Roberta Cozza has chosen the top 10 technologies that mobile device vendors must investigate over the next two years. The full article is available as a Gartner blog post. The top technologies are: …

Tags:Gartner| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 22