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Will 2017 See VR Content Tipping Point?

As 2016 winds down, we enter the season of prophecy for next year’s digital future, and Virtual Reality (VR) content is ...

PCCW Global Delivers a 360° VR Rugby Experience with Harmonic

Harmonic has announced that its Electra VS video system was used by PCCW Global to deliver immersive 360° VR experiences live ...

iWedia Creates UHD STB with DMT

iWedia and Digital Multimedia Technology have collaborated to produce an UltraHD IPTV/OTTT hybrid set-top box, running Android TV. It uses iWedia’s ...

Oculus Redesigns Rift, Introduces Gesture Controls

After many years, Oculus VR has revealed the final design of its consumer headset – set to be released in Q1’16. ...

Good News and Bad News for Qualcomm

In separate news stories, there was good news and bad news for Qualcomm over the holiday. on the bad news side ...

Qualcomm Moves to 10nm with 820/821

Qualcomm held the first press event of the 2017 event, just before the ‘official’ opening event by the CTA. Keith Kressin ...

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Samsung Reacts to Positive LG G6 Sales

by Milos Pavlovic

LG Electronics said that it sold 30,000 units of its G6 phone in Korea in the first two days after the launch on the 10th of March, with pre-orders of 82,000 between March 2nd …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Swisscom Adds Insight TV UHD to its Platform

by Alan Spencer

The UHD channel, Insight TV, has been added to Swisscom’s IPTV platform, Swisscom TV 2.0, which was launched in April 2016. Insight TV is a linear pay-TV service, offering travel and sports programmes. Swisscom’s …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Switzerland| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Midwich Group Result 14/03/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Midwich Group announced its preliminary annual result with net revenues of £370.1 million ($458.9 million) and net profit of £8.5 million ($10.5 million) and a net profit margin of 2.3%. The net revenue was …

Tags:Distributors| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Midwich plc| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Magic Leap System Spotted?

by Bob Raikes

Business Insider published a picture of what is said to be a prototype of the Magic Leap device that it said was being rapidly evolved to be ready for an important board meeting. However, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Samsung to Produce Prototypes of Foldable Smartphones in 3Q2017

by Alan Spencer

South Korean and Chinese manufacturers are competing to be the first company in the world to produce a foldable smartphone. Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display are working to produce a number of foldable smartphone …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 10

EAVS to Sell DailyLED Solutions

by Isaac Oburu

DailyLED has appointed AV VAD Groupe EAVS to distribute its solutions in France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Kopin Gets Praise for its New 2k x 2k OLED Microdisplay

by Alan Spencer

At the beginning of the year, Kopin announced its first Lightning OLED one-inch microdisplay (Kopin’s New 2Kx2K OLED on Si Panel to Advance VR Image Quality) and said that since then has had positive …

Tags:AR/VR| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Philips Updates on 2017 Sets & HDR Plans

by Bob Raikes

Philips plans to add support for the HLG HDR standard to its 2016 UltraHD TVs as well as this year’s range. The technology is available on TVs that run Android 6, so sets that …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Philips| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 10

MIB Offers Fire Protection for Displays

by Bob Raikes

M.I.B. GmbH of Germany has developed fireproof housings for displays and they have now been certified by the MPA organisation, which tests fireproofing in materials. The housings are available in size from 32″ to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Vol 24 - Issue 10

IDC

MEA Tablet Market Sees Decline

by Alan Spencer

IDC has reported that in the last quarter of 2016, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market declined 24.2% on year to total 3.07 million units. For the whole of 2016, the decline …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Harman Acquisition Completed by Samsung Electronics

by Alan Spencer

Following all conditions being met, the acquisition of Harman International by Samsung Electronics has been completed for $112.00 per share in cash. The conditions that had to be met included approval by Harman stockholders …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 10