Archive

4k Apple Augmented Reality Automotive China Desktop Monitors Digital Signage DOOH Europe Events Financial Data Flexible Displays Game Playing Germany HDR - High Dynamic Range IDC Large Display Monitor LED LG Displays (LGD) LG Electronics (LGE) Market Data MicroLED Mobile Display Monitor Notebooks OLED OLEDs OLED TVs OTT Video Projectors Quantum Dots Samsung sharp showcase Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP Smartphone Market Smartphones Smart TV sony tablets TVs (TV Sets) UK (United Kingdom) UltraHD USA Virtual Reality Volume 21

Dodocase and Fove Show Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is a big topic for the market these days and many companies besides Oculus are following the trend. At ...

IC06 Aledia Wants to Disrupt Displays

Giorgio Anania is from Aledia, a company that makes nanowire LEDs which can offer higher brightness, resolution and efficiency than current ...

UniPixel Introduces XTouch™ and Diamond Guard™ Technology

UniPixel, Inc., today announced that it introduced its XTouch and Diamond Guard technologies to a number of leading PC manufacturers, touchscreen ...

Obi Worldphone Launches New Model, MV1

Continuing its tradition of powerful technology paired with smart Silicon Valley design, Obi Worldphone™ today launched its latest model, aimed at ...

Ledcon Develops Curved LED

LEDCon Systems GmbH of Germany was showing new LED modules that it has developed that can be used to create free ...

Spring Into Fun with Limited Edition Nextbook Tablets with Android or Windows

E FUN, the fifth largest tablet supplier in the U.S.*, announces four limited edition Nextbook tablets available now at Walmart stores ...

subscribe

Sony Adds Local UHD Support to PS Pro

by Bob Raikes

Sony has released an update to the Media Player on the PlayStation 4 Pro to extend support for UltraHD content replay beyond OTT sources to include local playback from USB keys or DNLA servers. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Scala Has Big Roll Out in Russian Cinema

by Milos Pavlovic

Scala said that Formula Kino, a Russian cinema chain, has Scala software on 460 screens across 35 new theatres (out of a total of 264 cinemas that the chain has). The screens are driven …

Tags:Cinema| Digital Signage| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Russia| Vol 24 - Issue 12

asus

Asustek Plans AR Development Team Spin-Off

by Alan Spencer

Commercial Times has reported that Asustek Computer has plans to spin-off its AR/VR development team to an independent start-up, Glamorfy Taiwan. Glamorfy was previously a unit of Asustek’s HMI software department, and Asustek has …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

DirecTV Has 25 2017 Baseball Games Coming in UHD

by Bob Raikes

DirecTV will show 25 Major League Baseball in UltraHD this year, with five games in April. DirecTV will also be broadcasting a number of NBA matches in 2017 –starting with Oklahoma City at Orlando …

Tags:4k| DirecTV| Large Display Monitor| Satellite| Sports and Stadiums| UltraHD| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 12

UK Consumers Adopting UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

A survey in the UK conducted by Atomik Research for the DTG, and reported in Advanced Television, has found that 22% of consumers have already bought an UltraHD TV, with younger buyers more likely …

Tags:4k| DTG| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 12

MStar and Seraphic Demo HbbTV 2 at CCBN 2017

by Alan Spencer

MStar and Seraphic delivered a HbbTV 2 demo on its latest STB chipset platforms at CCBN 2017 earlier this month. The show is one of the largest broadcasting technology and equipment exhibition in the …

Tags:APAC| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Non-pay TV homes to Double in North America

by Bob Raikes

According to Digital TV Research, the number of pay TV subs in North America will fall by 10 million from 112 million in the peak year of 2012 to 102 million in 2022. Although …

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 12

VR for the Crayon Crowd

by Len Scrogan

When I first saw this technology on display in the Playgrounds Hall at SXSWedu, I knew I had to write about it. I knew our readers needed to know about it, not just because …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Practice is Behind the State of the Art in Professional VR

by Bob Raikes

Kathleen Maher is from Jon Peddie Research where she focuses on content creation and software and was the first speaker after lunch when she talked about commercial VR. She started by saying that in …

Tags:CAD-CAM-CAE| CAVEs| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Inami Wants Superhuman Sports

by Bob Raikes

Masahiko Inami – University of Tokyo – gave an intriguing talk. As it turned out, little of it was really related to displays, but it was intriguing. Inami has previously worked at Keio University …

Tags:Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 12

AR Will be Big, but Not Easy

by Bob Raikes

Dr Jon Peddie started his talk by saying that Laval Virtual should be called Laval Immersive because it covers not only VR, but also AR and Mixed Reality. The market for these technologies is …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Verizon and SES Trial Ultra HD Delivery

by Isaac Oburu

SES S.A. (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) today announced a collaborative agreement with Verizon (NYSE: VZ) aimed at driving the overall development of Ultra HD delivery solutions for Verizon Fios subscribers throughout the U.S. Verizon is …

Tags:SES| Verizon