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DisplayPort 1.3 Adds 5k(!) Support

DisplayPort v1.3 has just been released by the Video Electronic Standards Association (VESA), supporting up to 32.4Gbps. The speed of v1.3 ...

Leyard Plans New European Factory

LED maker Leyard is planning a new European factory and showroom near Presov, Slovakia. The 3,120m² building is due to be ...

JCDecaux Follows Through on La Défense

JCDecaux has unveiled its new street furniture in the La Défense business district of Paris. The company won the contract in ...

AUO’s Sales and Shipments Decline

AU Optronics (AUO) saw sales and panel shipments decline in February. Revenue for the month of NT$28.3 billion ($895.8 million) was ...

A “Goldilocks” Smartphone-Based VR Headset

Virtual reality is well on its way to becoming a commercial reality for consumers. None-the-less, the hardware choices currently available to ...

Warner Announces First UHD Blu-ray Titles

To coincide with the availability of Ultra HD Blu-ray™ players in the marketplace in early 2016, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will ...

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MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 40

by Tom Allen

AMD has said that it will work with Oculus VR and Dell to drive PCs with the Oculus Ready certification (Oculus Lists VR Challenges). AMD will fit these PCs with its own Radeon GPUs. …

Tags:AMD| Dell| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Oculus VR| PCs| Samsung| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Taiwan| toshiba| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 40

COMPUTEX Returning 2016 with Two New Areas

by Isaac Oburu

COMPUTEX TAIPEI is coming back 2016 from May 31st to June 4th! Registration for local and overseas exhibitors is now open, and the organizers have already received requests to expand booth spaces from many …

Tags:Computex 2015| Events| Taiwan

Google Shares New Android TV Partners

by Tom Allen

TCL, Hisense and other ‘unnamed’ makers have just been announced as new Android TV partners by Google. Although the US firm did not mention other companies by name, we know that Grundig is one …

Tags:Android| Google| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| STBs| TCL| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Mobile Technology Spending to Rise 33%

by Tom Allen

A new IDC report on mobile technology spending (http://tinyurl.com/n9d9ffl) predicts that spending will rise 33% between 2014 and 2019. In monetary terms, that is a rise from $901 billion to $1.2 trillion! The report …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Phones| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Sony

Sony Teaches World About UltraHD

by Tom Allen

Sony Professional Solutions Americas division has launched a new ‘Sony 4k’ YouTube channel. As well as a variety of UltraHD content (from Sony cameras, of course), the channel will also host tutorials and testimonials …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| VOD in UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 40| YouTube

United Object Shows Laser Picoprojector

by Matthew Brennesholtz

United Object (UO) is a brand name launched in Korea in May of this year by Korea’s SK Telecom for its lifestyle-related products. In July, they expanded the brand into China. Now they are …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 40

Boldman Takes on UK’s Largest Airport Screens

by Tom Allen

Boldman, a UK company specialising in aluminium constructions, has built two large new LED screens at Terminal 2 at Heathrow airport. Each screen has a 10mm pixel pitch and 6,000 cd/m² of brightness, weighs …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| LED| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 42

microsoft

Microsoft, ASUS broaden patent licensing engagement

by Isaac Oburu

Microsoft Corp. and ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS) on Thursday announced the expansion of an earlier patent licensing agreement between the companies.The deal includes a broad cross-license covering, for example, ASUS Android-based phones and tablets …

Tags:Asus| Microsoft| Patents

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich to Keynote at CES 2016

by Isaac Oburu

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced the first in what will be an all-star series of keynotes at CES® 2016 – Intel Corporation CEO Brian Krzanich will deliver a preshow keynote address on …

Tags:Events| Intel

The Regulation Battle for Display Power

by Bob Raikes

Our front page this week in Large Display Monitor, covers a story that Samsung is alleged to have used a special technique to detect test material that is part of the standardised video stream …

Tags:Editorial| Europe| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| PDP| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 39