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USA is Sony’s First Xperia X Market

by Tom Allen

Sony has said that the Xperia X smartphones, which it announced at MWC 2016 (Sony Focuses on Iteration, Not innovation), will be launched in the USA this summer. The Xperia X is available to …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Mediatek Pumps Up Smartphone Charging

by Tom Allen

Qualcomm currently leads the fast charging market for smartphones, but Mediatek announced plans to dethrone its rival at Computex. Pump Express 3.0 is the company’s new charging technology, said to be able to power …

Jaguar Maps SUV to Celebrate Vivid Sydney

by Tom Allen

To celebrate Jaguar’s contribution to the Vivid Sydney 2016 event, the company has shown its F-Pace SUV (Wearables Battle the Hype Cycle at WTS 2016) using projection mapping and an LED video wall. TDC, …

TiVo Approaches 30% Growth

by Tom Allen

TiVo finished Q1’16 with more than 7.1 million subscribers, worldwide: a 28% (1 million) increase from last year. Net additions in Q1 were up by 312,000 and gross additions rose 8% YoY. Churn, at …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Tivo| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Worldwide

NEP Chooses Leader to Head NTL Production

by Tom Allen

NEP Visions, an outside broadcast service provider, chose to use Leader’s LV5940 UltraHD waveform monitor at the Wyndham Theatre in London’s West End. The display was used as the master reference instrument, during the …

VR Spin-Off Rumoured for HTC

by Tom Allen

A Chinese-language report from the Commercial Times claims that HTC will spin off its VR unit in Q3 this year. The company will retain a 100% stake in the new business.

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Brands Shorten Lifecycles as Smartphone Slowdown Continue

by Tom Allen

Smartphone shipments will rise 3.1% YoY in 2016: a significant slowdown from the 10.5% growth seen in 2015, and 27.8% in 2014. The forecast is 2.6 percentage points lower than IDC’s previous prediction, and …

MSI Mobilises VR

by Tom Allen

MSI had a lot to show off, including a ‘niche of a niche’ – a backpack PC for VR (it was actually announced just before HP’s Omen X: Everything Optional on HP’s Omen Laptop). …

DTVE Examines Next-Gen TV

by Tom Allen

Digital TV Europe has published a free report on the launch and delivery of UltraHD TV services. It deals with what constitutes a UHD TV, and the implications for adding ‘better pixels’ to the …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Intel Looks to Video Delivery

by Tom Allen

According to Cisco, video is expected to approach 80% of all internet traffic in the coming years. This makes it important to be able to deliver such content quickly and efficiently through the cloud. …

AMD Dramatically Lowers VR Cost

by Tom Allen

AMD is planning a series of new Radeon RX Series graphics cards, based on its Polaris architecture, designed for VR-ready PCs. The RX 480 series is designed to be financially accessible, starting at $200. …

Pixelworks Wins With Asus

by Tom Allen

Pixelworks has claimed a design win with Asus. The company provided its Iris video display processor, for use in the Zenfone 3 Ultra smartphone.