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NEC’s High Brightness Combats Ambient Light

by Tom Allen

The VE projectors from NEC feature quick power-on, vertical keystone correction (manual, +/-40°) and manual zoom (1.1x). They are designed for mid-sized meeting rooms and classrooms with high ambient light levels; luminance reaches 3,000 …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Hisense Pushes QDs for Energy Saving

by Tom Allen

QD Vision and Hisense are working together and have announced an initiative to lower display energy consumption. This appears to simply be a new method of promoting the power-savings of QD Vision’s quantum dots. …

Tags:China| Environment| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Power Consumption| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 13

International VR Show Begins in Canada

by Tom Allen

Consumer VR (CVR) 2016 is a new conference and exhibition for the virtual and augmented reality industries. Hosted by Archiact, the first show will take place on the 14th May in Vancouver, Canada. The …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Mobile Display Monitor| North America| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 13

AOC Continues With Slim Bezel Style Line

by Tom Allen

Following the launch of slim-bezel Style line monitors last October (AOC Slims Style Line Bezels), AOC has decided to further expand the range with two smaller units: the 23″ I2381FH and 21.5″ I2281FWH. Retaining …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Narrow Bezels| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Media Broadcast Tests Live UHD

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Media Broadcast tested an UltraHD broadcast, via satellite, on the 2nd April. The firm showed a live transmission of the Vienna State Opera, with 100% signal availability or the 50fps stream. It used …

Tags:4k| Broadcast| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Roku Updates Streaming Stick

by Tom Allen

A new Roku Stick has been announced, with a quad-core processor and up to eight times the power of its predecessor. WiFi has been updated to dual-band MIMO and the operating ysstem is Roku …

Tags:HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Play PS4 Games on a PC or Mac

by Tom Allen

An update to the Playstation 4 console has delivered an in-built game streaming service. The ‘Remote Play’ feature enables gamers to stream games to PCs and Macs on the same network, so that the …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| Streaming Video| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Matrox Returns to DSS Europe

by Tom Allen

Matrox has said that it will exhibit at the Digital Signage Summit Europe (23rd – 24th June, Munich). There, the firm will show off its C900 video card and Maevex encoders and decoders.

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Signage| Events| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Matrox| Vol 23 - Issue 13

LG Invests in Vietnam

by Tom Allen

LG Display has said that it will build an OLED display module assembly plant in Vietnam. The plant, in Hai Phong, will begin production in the second half of 2017. Although LGD did not …

Tags:APAC| Investment| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Samsung Augments Reality With Contact Lens Display

by Tom Allen

The Korea Intellectual Property Office has granted Samsung a patent for contact lenses with a tiny display and built-in camera, as well as sensors that detect movement. The ‘eye-mount display’ projects images onto a …

Tags:Cameras| Contact Lens Display| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Netflix Rewards LG

by Tom Allen

LG’s 2016 TVs have been awarded the Netflix Recommended badge, for the second year in a row.

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| Netflix| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Job Cuts Rumoured at Nokia

by Tom Allen

‘People familiar with the plans’ have told the Taipei Times that Nokia Oyj is planning to cut between 10,000 and 15,000 people – 14% of its total 104,000 employees – from its workforce, following …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 23 - Issue 13