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Ricoh Reaches New Brightness Level

Ricoh has introduced its brightest-ever 3LCD projectors in the form of the WU6181N and WX6181N. With six interchangeable lenses, the units ...

Apple Looks For Second Watch Builder

Apple Daily, a Chinese source, says that Apple is seeking a second OEM to assemble the second-generation Apple Watch. The company ...

Samsung Honours Bluewater

Samsung has presented Bluewater Technologies with a Samsung Smart Signage Award at Infocomm 2016, recognising the company as a Platinum Partner ...

LDM Vol 24 Issue 43 Product Round-up

Barco has released the Eonis 22″ review monitor in Japan. The FullHD monitor MDRC-2222 succeeds the MDRC-2122 and has a 21.5″ ...

Hitachi Takes UST to the Next Level

Hitachi’s newest Smart projector – currently unnamed – is able to throw a 40″ image from just 1cm from the display ...

HbbTV to Merge with Smart TV Alliance – Mozilla Ends Firefox OS

The HbbTV Association is merging with the Smart TV Alliance so that applications in the future will be able to use ...

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YouView Uses Alexa for Voice Control

by Yvette Raikes

The UK’s YouView FTA DTT platform has used the Alexa Video Skill API to make it easier for viewers to control its content and apps. The company says that all of its 2.4 million …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| UK (United Kingdom)| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 23

PSCo takes on Epson’s Laser Projectors

by Bob Raikes

The PSCo division of Midwich has signed an exclusive distribution deal for its laser-based installation projectors for the UK. PSCo runs a rental business and will invest in inventory for that use as well …

Tags:Distribution| Epson| Large Display Monitor| Midwich plc| Vol 24 - Issue 22

JDI to Defer JOLED Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

JDI said this week that it would delay its investment in JOLED until 2018 after originally planning to buy a large stake this year. The date of the acquisition will be decided by the …

Tags:Japan Display Inc (JDI)| JOLED| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Apple

Apple Adopts HEVC Across the Range

by Bob Raikes

Apple said at its developer’s conference that it would update the tvOS used on the Apple TV and will include new features including support for the HEVC codec, on Apple TVs from version 4. …

Tags:Apple| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

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AUO revenues up slightly in May

by Bob Raikes

AUO saw revenues in May up 1% up on April and 4.7% up on May 2016. The company sold 9.15 million large LCDs in May, up 5.7% on April. Small medium panel shipments were …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Worldwide Semiconductor Sales See 21% YoY Rise in April

by Yvette Raikes

Worldwide semiconductor sales were up 21% YoY to $31.3 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, using WSTS figures. The market is predicted to grow by 11.5% this year and by a further 2.7% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Satellite Preferred Method of UHD Delivery

by Bob Raikes

Advanced Television has detailed some figures released by Eutelsat Italia following a survey of 122 managers from broadcast companies on UltraHD. Just over three quarters of respondents think that linear TV (as part of …

Tags:4k| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Location-based VR is the Right Next Step

by Chris Chinnock

This is a feeling I have had for some time, but this was driven home today based on my tour of the brand new IMax VR Center in New York. This is the second …

Tags:IMAX| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Rumor: Apple May use MicroLED Display as Soon as 2018

by Norbert Hildebrand

In the Nikkei Asian Review article ‘Apple plans micro-LED displays for wearables: sources‘, the news outlet reveals that according to sources in the supply chain Apple plans to use microLED displays as early as …

Tags:iOS (Apple)| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

… and iMacs and MacBooks

by Bob Raikes

Apple has updated the processors on the iMac and MacBook and added Thunderbolt 3, and added a Retina 4K display to the 21.5″ iMac. Displays are boosted in brightness to 500 cd/m² The iMac …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Hampden Park Bringing Two Giant LED Video Displays To Game Day

by Bob Raikes

Hampden Park, Scotland’s National Stadium of Glasgow, United Kingdom, and the Scottish FA have partnered with Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota, for the company to design, manufacture and install two new LED video displays …

Tags:LED

Scottish Football Gets Two Giant LED Screens

by Yvette Raikes

Two LED video displays have been installed in Scotland’s national stadium, Hampden Park, in Glasgow. Daktronics was responsible for the 5.49m x 19.75m screens placed at each end of the stadium. They have 13HD …

Tags:Daktronics| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 23