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HP Drops HDMI and Disc Drive for Thinnest Laptop

by Tom Allen

HP announced ‘the world’s thinnest laptop’ at the New York Times International Luxury Conference in Versailles this week: the 10.4mm Spectre 13. It is, as HP reminds us, as thin as an AAA battery. …

Tags:HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 13

NHK Plans 8k in August

by Tom Allen

NHK’s Kashima Yoshiharu announced the changes.Japan has announced updates to its UltraHD plans at MIPTV in France. National broadcaster NHK intends to begin transmissions on the 1st August this year in Super-Hi Vision, aka …

DTI Shows Off NASA 3D

by Tom Allen

Dimension Technologies Inc. (DTI) has launched a patented glasses-free 3D technology at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, called ROC3D. It has been specifically designed for NASA, although also has uses in applications such as air …

CJ Group Gets Into Virtual Cinema

by Tom Allen

Cinema chain CJ Group will show off its new virtual reality cinema experience at CinemaCon (11th – 14th April), at stand 2003A. CG Group is a Korean company and will focus on introducing its …

Printed Electronics Shown Off at LOPEC

by Tom Allen

A new electronic ink for inkjet printing, from DuPont Advanced Materials, is said to offer the high conductivity and strong adhesion required for digital design, prototyping and rapid manufacturing. It will be able to …

Idemitsu Rises to Second Place in OLED Emitter Market

by Tom Allen

UBI Research says that the OLED emitter materials market grew 17% from 2014 to 2015. Universal Display was the largest supplier in revenue terms, but experienced a decrease in sales – as did Dow …

OLEDWorks to Prototype Amber OLEDs

by Tom Allen

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) awarded a $500,000 grant to OLEDWorks last year (OLEDWorks Takes Lighting Grant), to develop bright amber OLED lighting panels. NYSERDA has now presented the …

LG Videos Show Korean OLEDs

by Tom Allen

LG installed OLED displays in Korea’s Incheon Airport and outside the N. Seoul Tower last year (OLED ‘Sculptures’ to be Built in Seoul), and has now published a video showing off the finished work. …

New Studio Joins UHD Blu-ray

by Tom Allen

Paramount is the latest Hollywood studio to sign up to the UHD Blu-ray movement. ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ will be released in UltraHD HDR, with Dolby Atmos, on the 14th June. …

Tags:4k| Blu-ray| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 13

AOMedia Video Becomes Open Source

by Tom Allen

New members have joined the Alliance for Open Media (Leading Companies Collaborate to Avoid Codec Fees), which has also announced availability of code for its AOMedia Video project. ARM, AMD and Nvidia are the …

Sony Eases Home Cinema Entry

by Tom Allen

Sony’s VPL-HW45ES is its newest projector, intended as an entry model into the world of home cinema. Based on Sony’s SXRD (a variant on LCoS) technology, it acts as a step down from the …

Tags:Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 13

DTG and DTVP Schedule UHD Plugfest

by Tom Allen

The Digital Television Group (DTG), of the UK, and German TV Platform (DTVP) are to hold the second joint Plugfest on the 12th and 13th April, at the DTG’s headquarters in London. The event …