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Zytronic and Tangible Display Pioneer Object Recognition on Large Format Touch Tables

Zytronic, a leader in custom designed, high performance Projected Capacitive Technology (PCT™ and MPCT™) touch sensors today announced that, in collaboration ...

Humax Will be First STB Partner for Freeview Play

Humax has claimed the title of first set-top box manufacturer to announce Freeview Play products. The company’s boxes will support HD ...

Bicycles may be a Key to Consumer Adoption of Augmented Reality

Future Cities Catapult is a British-based company focusing on analyzing issues in today’s urban environments and the development of innovations defining ...

Northamber to Offer Samsung’s Curved Monitors in UK

Northamber in the UK has signed a deal to supply Samsung’s range of curved monitors.

Publitec Invests in Christie Products

German AV distributor Publitec has invested in Christie’s new Boxer 4K30 projectors, taking 40 units from the company before it was ...

JDI Innovates with LTPS, Flexible and OLED

Visiting JDI at SID is always a challenge – there is always so much to see and so much of it ...

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Fraunhofer Stacks OLEDs for Colour Tunability

by Tom Allen

Fraunhofer COMEDD has developed colour-tunable OLED lighting panels, and showed them off at the recent LOPEC event in Munich, Germany. Photo credit: OLED-InfoColour tunability is the feature most desired by lighting designers after flexibility, …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Lighting| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Google Planning WiFi for Android Wear

by Tom Allen

The Verge claims that Google is planning to release an update to Android Wear that will bring Wi-Fi support to devices running the OS. Other smaller updates will add gesture control and UI changes.

Tags:Android| Gesture Recognition| Google Glass| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 11| wireless communications

HTC’s One E9 Appears as Upgrade to One M9

by Tom Allen

Last year, HTC offered a lower-priced version of the One M8 smartphone called the One E8; it sacrificed the metal body for plastic, as well as losing the duo camera. The HTC One E9, …

Tags:Android| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Netflix Future Proofs Programming With 6k Recording

by Tom Allen

Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has shot season three of its original programme, House of Cards, in 6k resolution. Netflix apparently used cameras from Red to accomplish the high-resolution challenge, with Encore handling …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Lattice Semiconductor Closes Acquisition of Silicon Image

by Helen Vince

Lattice Semiconductor has announced the closure of its acquisition of Silicon Image, at an estimated closing price of $606.6 million. The companies announced that they had entered into an agreement in January (Lattice Semiconductor …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lattice Semiconductor (Silicon Image)| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 11

JDI Free to Take Rivals’ Orders at Apple-Funded Plant

by Tom Allen

Despite Apple putting up the majority of the $1.4 billion investment in a new Japan Display LCD plant, JDI will be free to mass-produce products for other vendors at the facility. According to the …

Tags:Apple| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 11

BLU Sales, Shipments Fell Last Month

by Helen Vince

Taiwan’s two main BLU manufacturers, Coretronic and Radiant-Optoelectronics both reported declines in sales and shipments in February. Coretronic shipped 5.3 million BLU units, 24% down from January and said that it expects overall first …

Tags:Coretronic| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Radiant| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Taiwan Chip Companies See February Sales Fall

by Helen Vince

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSMC) recorded its lowest monthly sales since June 2014 in February, at NT$62.2 billion ($2 billion). This was 28.1% lower than January 2015 but 33.8% higher than February 2014. For the first …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| TSMC| UMC| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Motive Signs Tablet TV Licenses

by Tom Allen

Motive and Tablet TV have entered into two licensing agreements for the service’s US and Canadian launch of mobile and VOD content services. They cover the technology used in the service and define the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| TV Reception| TV Viewing| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Free’s Android Box Plays UltraHD Content

by Tom Allen

Free, a French company, has launched the ‘Freebox Mini 4k’ – a gateway/set-top box that runs Android TV and can play UltraHD content. It consists of two units: a server and a player. The …

Tags:Home gateways| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 11

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DSE 10th Annual Live Tour Offers Surprises

by Steve Sechrist

It’s Press Day at the 2015 Digital Signage Expo and while most exhibitors are busy setting up, a select lucky few had the chance to attend the Live Installation Tour that has become a …

Tags:Casinos| DSE 2015| Large Display Monitor| large displays| Large Venue Projectors| LFD - Large Format Display| Vol 22 - Issue 12

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Meet the Cuberox

by Arthur Berman

Cuberox (Vancouver, WA and Prague, Czech Republic) is developing a unique device also called Cuberox. Physically, the device is a black cube with a 16 x 16 white LED display on each of its …

Tags:LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 11| Wireless Charging