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Motorola Confident in ‘Shatterproof’ Display

The stand-out feature of Motorola’s new Droid phone – the brand name for phones produced with Verizon – is its ‘shatterproof’ ...

NVIDIA Partners with SMI to Demo Foveated Rendering for VR at Siggraph 2016

Computer graphics giant NVIDIA has chosen SMI eye tracking by SensoMotoric Instruments to power its perceptually-based foveated rendering technique which will ...

IBC International Honour for Excellence Recognises ARM

The International Honour for Excellence 2015, the highest honour IBC bestows, this year recognises a technology – and the company behind ...

Shipment Milestone Reached by Maxlinear

Maxlinear has now sold more than 10 million of its MxL608 DVB-T2 tuners worldwide. Demand has been strong in ‘all markets’ ...

BC04 BOE Looks to Re-Pivot to IoT & Medical

BOE Technology is doing well, said Leono Guo, the GM of the firm’s overseas business, and it’s the top supplier of ...

Samsung Electronics Expands Curved Monitor Portfolio with Three New 1,800R Curvature Displays

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today launched its new curved monitor line-up including CF591 (27-inch model) and CF390 (23.5- and 27-inch models). ...

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Component Order Reduction Rumoured for HTC

by Tom Allen

Lower-than-expected sales of the HTC One M9 could cause HTC to reduce component orders for the product by as much as 30%, say sources in Taiwan.

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Mediaset, Sky Italia Negotiate Pay-TV Deal

by Helen Vince

Mediaset and Sky italia are reported to be in negotiations about setting up a joint venture pay-TV company. According to Italian sources, Sky Italia would take the majority stake in the JV, which is …

Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Monopolies (Anti Trust)| Vol 22 - Issue 21

NHK Compresses 8k to 85Mbps

by Tom Allen

NHK will show its latest developments in Super Hi-Vision (8k) transmission at its Science & Technology Research Labs open days (28th – 31st May). Content will be sent to the location of the event …

Tags:4k| HEVC (H.265)| Japan| Large Display Monitor| NHK| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Vodafone Enjoys Successful TV Year

by Tom Allen

Vodafone has announced that it ended its financial year (31st March) with 9.1 million TV customers in Europe. The TV service will arrive in the UK later this year.

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Vodafone| Vol 22 - Issue 21

APAC Will Dominate DTV Rise to 2020

by Tom Allen

More than 1 billion digital TV homes will be added globally between 2010 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. The total will rise by 180% to 1.65 billion at the end of the forecast …

Tags:DTV| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 22 - Issue 21| Worldwide

SES to Carry First FTA UltraHD Channel

by Tom Allen

SES will broadcast Europe’s first free-to-air UltraHD channel, Pearl.tv, when it goes live in September. Pearl.tv is a shopping channel that will be broadcast in Germany.

Tags:4k| Europe| Large Display Monitor| SES| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 21

The Mobile Device Market on the Move – Again

by Norbert Hildebrand

Market research firms have been reducing their tablet forecast since the sales growth has been slowing in 2014. The latest numbers from IDC, which we reported on earlier, show a 6% decline in the …

Tags:Market Data| phablets| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Mitsubishi Electric FLEXConnect Complete Display

Mitsubishi Announces Next Generation FLEXConnect In-Car Infotainment System

by Norbert Hildebrand

Mitsubishi Electric has announced its latest generation of the FLEXConnect In-Vehicle Infotainment systems (IVI) in a press release. The latest system provides a cost effective three screen user interface. The displays contain touch and …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mitsubishi| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 21

Smartphones Spur Shift in Small/Medium Display Panel Demand, IHS Says

by Helen Vince

Ongoing improvements in smartphone display performance is leading to increasing demand for high-resolution panels with lower power consumption requirements, which are not supported by the most common legacy technologies (non-crystalline thin-film silicon or a-Si …

Tags:IHS Markit| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones

Fraunhofer FEP Coatings Enable Efficient Laser Beam Expander for Holographic Displays

by Chris Chinnock

(If this story looks familiar, we covered it last week [Fraunhofer Coatings Enable Full-Laser Backlights], but Chris got a lot of extra information.) Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Laser TVs| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 21