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Jobe VR Announces Smartphone Based Virtual Reality Headset

Virtual Reality – When we talk about virtual reality, we all think of the Oculus Rift device, which gets most of the press ...

Other HDR Updates

Netflix reaffirmed an earlier announcement that it would be adding support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) to its 4K content later this ...

VESA Rolls Out Production-Ready Embedded DisplayPort Standard 1.4 for Mobile Personal Computing Devices

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) today announced it has published the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) standard version 1.4b. This new release ...

Video Viewing on Mobile Devices to Double This Year

According to research included in the third edition of Zenith’s annual Online Video Forecasts report, global consumers will spend an average ...

Eye Tribe Shows Low Cost Eye Tracking at MWC 2015

Danish software developer, The Eye Tribe, was showing its latest low cost eye-tracking software at MWC in a use case of ...

Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Market Expected to Grow at a Compound Annual Rate of 58%, Reaching 99.4 Million Units in 2021, According to IDC

New device launches, an expanding array of content for both consumer and enterprise users, and lower price points will propel the ...

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TV Everywhere Not Delayed by Authentication

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A study by US-based The Diffusion Group (TDG) has shown that authentication is not limiting the takeup of TV Everywhere services. Only 7% of users view the authentication process negatively and fewer than 1% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Security| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Q2 Marks End to Workstations’ Sideways Movement

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Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has referred to the workstation market’s Q2’14 as a ‘breakout quarter’ (while admitting that characterising a mature market as ‘breakout’ “verges upon [an] oxymoron”). Q2 saw record levels of unit …

Tags:Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

Nvidia’s GPUs DOWNSCALE for Sharper Image

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The Maxwell architecture introduced by Nvidia as the eventual successor to Kepler (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 8) now has two new GPUs: the GTX 970 and 980. Maxwell is more efficient than Kepler, …

Tags:Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Barco Looks to Star Quality to Sell Escape Systems

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Barco is working with musical artists Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga to promote its panoramic, three-screen cinema concept, Barco Escape (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37). Their performance at the Grand Palace in Brussels, …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Canon Positions Displays & Cameras for Rec 2020 Colour

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Canon made a lot of noise about supporting Rec 2020 colour with its DV-V3010 UltraHD monitor, via a firmware upgrade (and reported in Large Display Monitor). As we suspected, this means that the monitor …

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IBC Round-up

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We’ve been reporting on the 4Ever government-driven project in France since April 2012 when the project was established to test and develop UltraHD technology. The group has been working on HEVC encoding testing and …

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Flexible Touch Enabled by Canatu Partnership

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Canatu has partnered with German company Display Solutions to develop touchscreens for 4.3″ to 15″ displays. Solutions created under the partnership will use Canatu’s carbon nanobud films and Display Solution’s controller equipment. As well …

Tags:Canatu| CNTs (Carbon Nanotubes)| Large Display Monitor| Pcap (Procap)| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Marvel Distributsia Adds Asustek

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Russian distributor Marvel Distributsia is now offering all-in-one and desktop PCs from Asustek throughout the region, as well as networking products and CE devices.

Tags:Asus| Distributors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Phones 4 U Falls into Administration

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The UK’s Phones 4 U mobile phone retailer has fallen into administration, blaming the recent withdrawal from its business of Vodafone and EE. However, within days of the announcement, both Vodafone and EE were …

Tags:Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Retailers| Vodafone| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Sony Looked at Flexible Displays for Its Smartphone Line

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When we talk about smartphone leadership, Sony is not the first name that comes to mind. In a recent interview of Thomas Waldner, Senior Design Manager at Sony Mobile Communications by Trusted Reviews, the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Dynamic Focus on 19″ LCD Monitors

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This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 19″ standard aspect ratio (5:4) category. There are 16 brands featured in the advertising with Philips, Acer and Iiyama the top three advertised brands. In …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| dynamic focus| Large Display Monitor| Pricing| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

PC-to-TV Connections Higher in Europe

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A study by Parks Associates has found that Smart TV ownership in broadband households is around 40% in Germany and Spain, but only 33% in the UK. It has also found that PC-to-TV connections …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Smart TV| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21