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Asus Predicts Stronger Second Half

Asus shipped 4.3 million notebooks in Q2’15, down from 4.8 million in Q1’15 and 4.6 million in Q2’14. Desktop shipments were ...

Atlona Introduces Flagship 4K Matrix

Atlona has added a new eight-input, four-output 4K HDMI and HDBaseT switcher designed for applications including videoconferencing, multi-screen presentations, and divisible ...

ADB Releases Independent iTV Research Findings as ‘2016 In-Room Entertainment Preferences Study’

ADB today announced a new White Paper that reveals critical research about what hoteliers and guests deem important in a hotel’s ...

Display Makers Kill 3D TV

Samsung has confirmed that it will not support 3D in any of its 2016 TVs. The company revealed the news to ...

Q1 is “Very Encouraging” for US LFDs

US sales of commercial-grade large-format (32″+) displays rose 14% YoY in Q1’15, according to new data from PMA Research. The results ...

Oculus Rift Core 2.0 Public Beta Launches Next Month

Oculus has confirmed that the Rift Core 2.0 public beta will launch next month. Rift Core 2.0 brings about an overhaul ...

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FlexEnable Looking at New OLED & LCD Applications

by Bob Raikes

This week, I made a visit to FlexEnable, the company that is the ip and technology part of the Plastic Logic company that split between the factory in Dresden (which continues as Plastic Logic …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 15

LG Displays 5.5 inch QHD LCD

LG Launches 5.5″ QHD Mobile Display with expanded Color Gamut

by Norbert Hildebrand

LG has launched a new mobile display panel that offers an enhanced color gamut and QHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution. This translates into a pixel density of 538 ppi. The new panel also includes …

Tags:LCD displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 15

VR System Impression Pi Announces Funding Stretch Goal on Kickstarter

by Bob Raikes

Impression Pi, the virtual and augmented reality headset that took Kickstarter by storm last month, has announced a new stretch goal and a referral program. The VR/AR headset has already raised 212% of its …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Virtual Reality

Helpful Hints for Video Wall Installations

by Bob Raikes

On a quiet day for news because of the public holidays in Europe, we thought we include a link to a useful article detailing recommendations for video wall best practices from NEC, Peerless AV …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| Video Walls

Google Arc Welder Puts Android Apps Everywhere

by Bob Raikes

Google has released a new tool, Arc (App Runtime for Chrome) Welder that allows Android apps to run in the Chrome browser, whether the browser is running on Windows, iOS or Linux. >The software …

Tags:Android| Chrome

Live Streaming the Next Wave

by Steve Sechrist

One of the more compelling applications to come from the (now defunct? – No, we reported on this a couple of weeks ago -it’s said to be too important to scratch – Man Ed.) …

Tags:Broadcast| Content Creation| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 15

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Toshiba Launches First TransferJet Adapter for Apple iOS

by Matthew Brennesholtz

On March 1st, Toshiba announced a TransferJet adapter for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod. According to Toshiba, this is the first Apple-compatible TransferJet adaptor available on the market. Simultaneously, the company launched similar …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| TransferJet| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Nanolumens Takes on Largest Casino Install

by Tom Allen

The Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in California has installed a custom visual solution from Nanolumens. The curved LED display, which uses Nanolumens’ NanoCurve product, is 11.5m wide and 6.4m tall.

Tags:Back Panel| Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Elbit Systems to Provide Head Mounted Display for US Navy Helicopter

by Norbert Hildebrand

Elbit Systems of America, the US based high performance supplier of medical, aviation and military systems has been contracted to provide a head mounted display for testing in US Navy helicopters. The program administrator …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Large Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Asus Chromebit Turns HDMI Display into a Chromebook

by Bob Raikes

Google announced this week that Asus has developed the Chromebit – an HDMI stick that turns any HDMI monitor into a Chromebook, when paired with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. The stick, which costs …

Tags:Asus| Chromebit| Chromebooks| Google Glass| HDMI

The World’s Most Expensive TV Remote?

by Bob Raikes

Ooyala has posted a blog that explains how the company’s SDK can be used to enable the watch to be used to control the playback of video on an iOS device. This means that …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Remote Controls

PrintDisplay Enables Do-It-Yourself Displays with Touchscreens

by Arthur Berman

A team of computer scientists in the Department of Computer Science, Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany) has developed a technique that enables non-expert users to print their own custom thin film electroluminescent display – and …

Tags:EL (Electroluminescent)| Germany| Printable Display| Vol 22 - Issue 15