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Acer Enjoys Monthly Growth

Acer’s consolidated revenues in June rose 42.9% MoM, but fell 6.8% YoY, to NT$24.8 billion ($5.2 billion). The company’s year-to-date revenues ...

Apple Downsizes iPhone With New 4″ Display

Apple’s newest iPhone SE turns to a “Back to the Future” display size that validates (at least in principle) Steve Job’s ...

Ending the Year in 8k

Japan’s Red & White Song Competition (Kohaku Uta Gassen) will be broadcast in 8k again (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 51) ...

Almoe Digital Solutions To sell Peerless-AV in the Middle East

During the Gitex 2016 event, Almoe Digital Solutions announced that it had partnered with Peerless-AV to distribute the products in Dubai ...

Oculus Ignores Rumours, Maintains Release Schedule

Palmer Lucky, co-CEO of Oculus VR, has re-stated partner Brendan Iribe’s comments (Consumers Will Get Hands (and Eyes) on Oculus This ...

Korean Team Prints Layers 1/1000 as Thick as a Hair

A team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has a developed a printing technology that could be ...

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Interview With Magnetic 3D CEO Tom Zerega

by Helen Vince

3D – I had the chance to visit Magnetic 3D’s offices in downtown Manhattan and speak to Magnetic’s CEO Tom Zerega. Magnetic 3D is a developer and manufacturer of autostereoscopic displays from 22″ to …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Chaos and Opportunity in the Entertainment Industry

by Helen Vince

Broadcast & Distribution – The term “Evolve or Die” may have even more meaning today than when uttered to the broadcast industry some years ago by the FCC Chairman. Things are so ripe for …

Tags:Broadcasters| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

EC Looks to Limit Display Power Draw

by Raverstead

The European Commission has published a working paper proposing new energy standards for large-screen TVs and monitors, which would cap their energy use. TVs in Europe are currently ranked according to the internal efficiency …

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Netflix Closing in on 17 Million Subs

by Raverstead

After achieving 14.4 million subscribers outside of the USA in September, Netflix has said that it expects to reach 17 million paying customers by the end of this year.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| VOD| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Worldwide

AMD’s Omega Upscales to UltraHD for FullHD Display

by Raverstead

AMD has announced a new driver for its GPUs and APUs that challenges Nvidia technologies. Replacing Catalyst 14.9, the Catalyst Omega driver is said to raise GPU performance by up to 19% on high-end …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| AMD| Chips| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Dish Subscribers Dip in Q3

by Raverstead

Dish Network of the US said its pay-TV subscribers fell by about 12,000 in Q3. The company reported a rise in churn rate, to 1.67% (versus 1.66% last year) and ended the period with …

Tags:Dish Network| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| TV Reception| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Metropolis Visits The Big Smoke With Broadsign

by Raverstead

Metropolis Digital Media has chosen to use Broadsign’s cloud-based software platform in a new screen deployment on top of black cabs in London next year. 500 screens (the Evolution 2 TXi Media Pod) will …

Tags:Broadsign| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 49

SkreensTV Brings Multi-Display to Consumer TVs

by Raverstead

A device currently seeking funding on Indiegogo (24 days left of the campaign and 14% funded at the time of writing) promises to bring picture-by-picture functionality to any TV. ‘SkreensTV’ can handle up to …

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Vienna Station Outfitted With 44m² LED Board

by Raverstead

Beginning full operations at the end of next year, the Vienna Main Station will serve more than 1,100 trains each day. Departures will be displayed on a 21m x 2.1m LED board supplied by …

Tags:Austria| Curved Displays| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Transport| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Christie Shows Benefits of 120fps for Simulation…

by Raverstead

For several years, Christie Digital has showcased demos at I/ITSEC to demonstrate the benefits of moving to 120fps display solutions for reducing motion artifacts. Last year the company had a nice side-by-side demo showing …

Tags:Christie| HFR - High Frame Rate| I/ITSEC 2014| Large Display Monitor| LED Projectors| Simulation| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Thales to Supply Reality H Full Flight Simulators to Boeing

by Raverstead

2014 has been a good year for Thales, explained Vincent Megaides, the business line strategy director for Thales Training and Simulation at I/ITSEC 2014. He noted that Australia’s Army and Navy helicopter pilots will …

Tags:I/ITSEC 2014| Large Display Monitor| Military & Defence| Simulation| Thales| Vol 21 - Issue 49

CEA Re-Christens UltraHD (Again), Brings Back 4k

by Raverstead

Multiple trade associations have agreed to use ‘4k UltraHD’ or ‘4k UHD’ as common terminology to describe TVs meeting the CEA’s UltraHD guidelines (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26). As well as the CEA …

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