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Netflix More Open on 4K and HDR Plans

We had a chance to talk to Netflix at the SMPTE conference about a range of topics. We found them quite ...

Ricoh Adds Brighter ‘Standard Install’ Line-up

Ricoh’s new business and education projector range is extensive, to suit many different applications. The line-up, of seven new DLP models, ...

Build to Last: VR Sales Figures You Can Count on

A big stink is being made about HTC delaying the commercial release of their HTC Vive until April next year, and ...

HTC’s Losses Continue

HTC’s turnover for November fell 25% YoY to NTD7.67 billion ($241.2 million), resulting in year-to-date revenue of NTD71.76 billion ($2.26 billion), ...

Apple Limits New Apple TV

Click for a higher resolution image of Apple’s remote. Image:AppleThe new version of the Apple TV is not due to ship ...

Apple Debuts at No.2 Spot as the Worldwide Wearables Market Grows 223.2% in 2Q15

In its first appearance in the wearables market, Apple finds itself within striking distance of the established market leader, Fitbit. According ...

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Tianma Shows OLEDs and A-si Tablet Panels

by Bob Raikes

Tianma’s OLEDs Looked good and should be here by the end of 2015Tianma was one of only two LCD makers that had meeting rooms on the show floor (the other was Samsung) and had …

Tags:AMOLED| IPS| LCD Modules| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Apple Updates 13″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display & MacBook Air

by Helen Vince

Apple® today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro® with Retina® display with the all-new Force Touch trackpad, fifth generation Intel Core processors and Intel Iris Graphics 6100, two times faster flash and longer battery life, …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks

The Eye Tribe Shows Eye Tracking on Phones and TVs

by Bob Raikes

The Eye Tribe showed fruit ninja being played using eye trackingDanish Eye Tracking software company, The Eye Tribe was on the Denmark booth and was showing how its eye-tracking technology could be used in …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Silicon Image Supports MHL Notebook Application

by Bob Raikes

Silicon Image had a booth with several topics as it also housed SiBeam and MHL LLC. Andromium’s dock converts a smartphone into a notebookThe first product that we looked at was a new notebook …

Tags:Lattice Semiconductor (Silicon Image)| MHL| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Notebooks| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Raon Tech Shows LCOS for NTE Applications

by Bob Raikes

Raon Tech was a new name to us. The company is from Korea and has developed its own LCOS devices that are optimised for near to eye (NTE) applications. The 720P version is 0.5″ …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Qualcomm Identifies 802.11ad (WiGig) Use Cases

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm, of course, had a big booth and was showing how its latest processors could be used for depth sensing and two different approaches were being shown – one from Mantis using “structured light” …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11| WiGIG

Marvell Specified in Project Ara

by Bob Raikes

Marvell started by showing us the PXA1928 which is the application processor/SoC that is being used in Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone (The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation). The chip is based on …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smart Home & Home Networks| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Lenovo Introduces Pocket Projector

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo had lots to show us and we had a whistlestop tour of the booth. The Mgo 300 is an entry level 8″ Windows tablet running Windows 8.1 and using an Intel BayTrail processor. …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Pico Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Galaxy S6 and Edge OLEDs Push Cutting Edge (Again)

by Steve Sechrist

In the OLED Display Technology Shoot-out published today, Displaymate Labs said Samsung once again has leapfrogged its generational OLED display performance with its new flagship flexible curved screen Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S6 …

Tags:AMOLED| Samsung Display| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 11

intel Atom x series

x Series Intel Atom Processors Aim at Phones & Tablets

by Bob Raikes

Intel was, unsurprisingly, highlighting the Spectre X360 on its booth. The company was also talking about its support of EMBMS and Multicast video which it can support via its 7260 modem platform. It was …

Tags:Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Smartphones| SOCs| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Imagination Video Encoding is High Quality

by Bob Raikes

We spoke to Imagination Technologies at CES, but the company still managed to have plenty of news at MWC. The first news was support by Imagination of the Vulkan low level API that has …

Tags:GPUs| HEVC (H.265)| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Optoma Re-Uses Chassis in Business and Education

by Tom Allen

Four new DLP-based projectors have been introduced by Optoma, for the business (W350, X350) and education (W351, X351) markets. They are differentiated by their resolution, brightness and throw ratios, but other features and specifications …

Tags:Business Projectors| DLP Projectors| Education| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| Vol 22 - Issue 11