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Lenovo Names New North America and EMEA Presidents

Aymar de LencquesaingEric CadorFollowing the recent realignment of its business groups and geographies, Lenovo has named new leaders for North America ...

Acer Named Official Partner for 2016 League of Legends World Championships and 2016 All Star Events

Acer has been named the Official Partner for 2016 League of Legends World Championships and 2016 All Star Event, with the ...

Worldwide Pay-TV Subscriptions Reach 969 Million

Digital TV Research has estimated that there will be 254 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2010 and 2016 to take the ...

B&O Uses LG Chassis & OLED

B&O held a press event on its booth and explained that for the company, when designing products, it put ‘people first’. ...

Wind Chooses Zappware for Cloud-Based TV Rollout

Wind Hellas has signed an agreement to use Zappware’s NeXX 4.0 cloud-based TV solution to launch multiscreen video service by the ...

CEA Defines HDR-Compatible Displays

The CEA has released an industry definition for displays compatible with high dynamic range (HDR) standards. The new designation, formally known ...

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New Core M Chips Speed Range

by Raverstead

Intel has introduced four new Core M chips, which are faster than the original devices from IFA (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36). The news comes from CPU World, which claims that the chips …

Tags:Chips| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Windows 10 Receives Native Format Support

by Raverstead

The latest update to the Windows 10 Technical Preview has added native support for advanced video and audio codecs. These include MKV, HEVC and lossless audio format FLAC. Display Daily Comments This may help …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 44| Windows

UK’s Dual-Use WEEE Definition to Change from 2016

by Raverstead

From 2016, the definition of household and non-household waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is to be amended in the UK, to better match European policy. The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 21 - Issue 49| WEEE (Waste Directive)

Acer Names Head of Notebook Business Group

by Raverstead

Acer has promoted Jerry Kao to president of the company’s notebook business group. He currently serves as general manager of the group, which he co-heads with Jackson Lin, president.

Tags:Acer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 21 - Issue 45

AUO Sees November Sales Dip

by Raverstead

AU Optronics (AUO) saw sales fall 6% sequentially and 1.8% year on year to NT$34.7 billion ($1.1 billion), bringing sales for the year to date to NT$374.5 billion ($12 billion), 2.2% lower than the …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49

BLU Shipments Fell in November

by Raverstead

Taiwan’s two major backlight unit (BLU) manufacturers reported sequential falls in shipments and sales in November. Coretronic’s BLU shipments fell 6% month on month in November to 7.7 million units and sales for the …

Tags:Coretronic| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Christie is The BOSS

by Raverstead

Christie’s StIM WQ DLP projectors and FHD461-X LCD displays have been chosen to power the visual displays for the Air National Guard’s Boom Operator Simulation System (BOSS) in the USA. Each system is designed …

Tags:Back Panel| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Simulation| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 48

DVIGear Extends HDMI to 1.2 Miles

by Raverstead

The DVI-7313 and DVI-7314 are single-fibre extenders supporting DCI-4k (30fps) signals, sending them up to 500m (DVI-7313) or 1.2 miles (DVI-7314). Aimed at the pro AV and rental & staging markets, DVIGear’s new products …

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Freesync to Arrive in 2014

by Raverstead

There have been conflicting reports over when the first Freesync monitors (AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s G-Sync) will be launched. We have heard both Q1’15 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37) and Q4’14 (Display Monitor …

Tags:AMD| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| VESA| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Hon Hai Posts Record Monthly Sales

by Raverstead

Strong demand for Apple products helped Hon Hai Precision achieve record sales in November of NT$514.8 billion ($16.5 billion), up 12.8% from November 2013 and 9.8% higher than October. In the first 11 months …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49

ITRI Announces Spin-Off FlexUP Technologies Corp.

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ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) from South Korea says it has licensed a new flexible display and backplane technology to start-up company FlexUP Technologies Corp. ITRI developed this new flexible backplane technology in support …

Tags:Flexible Displays| ITRI| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 49

LG Reshuffles Executives

by Raverstead

LG Electronics has announced the appointment of new executives to lead the LG Home Entertainment and LG Mobile Communications companies. Juno Cho, who currently serves as president of the holding company LG Corp. will …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Worldwide