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The power of the megapixel

I’m going to pick up on a subject that I have ranted about a lot. Looking back, however, it is actually ...

VR @ SXSWedu: Reality or Hype?

With the AR/MR/VR market expected to hit $150 billion by 2020, schools, colleges and universities are now getting the hard sell ...

DisplayNote Gets to 3 Million Licences

DisplayNote Technologies said that it has hit three million licences for its collaborative software since it was founded in 2012. The ...

ATSC 3.0 Conference Optimistic On Next Generation Television

With the completion of the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard now imminent, technologists, business executives, and industry experts gathered last ...

Sahara Adds Panasonic LFDs & Projectors

Sahara in the UK has expanded its portfolio of large format displays and projectors with the addition of Panasonic’s projection line ...

Next@Acer Shows New Products

On the 57th floor of World Trace Center 4, Acer held on April 21 Next@Acer, a standing-room only global press conference ...

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Nokia Want a Piece of the Smartphone ‘Cake’

by Isaac Oburu

Nokia has its eyes set on the mobile market again, with two Android 7.0 devices. Sources told NokiaPowerUser that the could be waterproof, with IP68 certification. They will both feature a metal chassis, with …

Tags:Android| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 29

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 29

by Milos Pavlovic

Andromium‘s Superbook (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 19) – the laptop ‘shell’ powered by a smartphone – is now live on Kickstarter. Prices start at $85. It was funded within 10 minutes, …

Tags:AMOLED| Convertible PCs| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Europe| GPUs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Media Players| MMD (AOC Philips)| Notebooks| Nvidia| Samsung| Smartphones| Software| Video Walls| ViewSonic| Vol 23 - Issue 29

Notebook Rebound Boosted EMEA PC Shipments

by Tom Allen

PC shipments in EMEA were slightly above expectations in Q2’16, says IDC, at 16.1 million units shipped – although this still represented a 4.7% YoY fall. Western Europe stabilised at -0.8%, while CEE and …

Tags:Europe| IDC| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 23 - Issue 29

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Flex Result 22/07/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Flex reported Q1 2016 net profit of $106 million. Turnover was reported at $5.9 billion. Gross margin improved 60 basis points YoY.

Tags:Financial Data| Flex| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 29

UltraHD Missing From Xbox One S

by Isaac Oburu

Microsoft has confirmed that the Xbox One S requires an update to be downloaded before it can play bacl UltraHD content. The console was launched worldwide on the 2nd August.

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 30| xBox

Sony Goes Beyond Premium

by Tom Allen

Sony has announced a new series of premium LCD TVs known as XBR-Z: these are positioned above the company’s current flagship models in the X series, such as the X930D. The focus for these …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LCD TVs| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 29

Canon Adds New Tech to XEED Series

by Tom Allen

Canon’s newest XEED-brand LCoS projector is a short-throw model for professional users, called the 4K501ST. Designed as an update to the 4K500ST (Canon Claims World’s Lightest DCI Projector), the new projector features HDMI 2.0 …

Tags:Canon| Large Display Monitor| LCOS| Projectors| Short Throw| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 29

Rogers TV Subscribers Down in Q2

by Isaac Oburu

Rogers Communications, a Canadian communications and media company has announced its operating results. Rogers recorded a drop in total TV subscribers to 23,000 in Q2’16 from 32,000 in Q2’15.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| North America| Pay TV| Vol 23 - Issue 29

AT&T Records 25 Million Subscribers in Q2

by Isaac Oburu

AT&T recorded a drop of 49,000 total video subscribers in Q2’16. Satelite subscribers rose to 342,000 in the same quarter. U-verse TV subscribers declined 391,000. Total AT&T video subscribers for the quarter were 25.3 …

Tags:AT&T| DirecTV| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 29

CAST introduces Ultra HD-capable video compression cores

by Isaac Oburu

Semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. recently introduced the newest generation in its eighteen-year-long series of IP cores for video and image compression. The new 2016 Video and Image Compression Cores Family includes encoders …

Tags:Encoders| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)

Wireless Charging Era Dawns for Mobile

by Steve Sechrist

Yes, smartphones are a major part of our lives, and God knows how we got along without them in the past. But like a new relationship, it’s the unknown baggage that can often sabotage …

Tags:Power| Power Consumption| Vol 23 - Issue 29| Wireless Charging

Insta360 Nano Offers Perfect Peripheral Vision on the Go

by Isaac Oburu

Insta360 Nano is the first HD camera to shoot and live-stream high definition virtual reality and panoramic stills and videos directly from an iPhone. The Apple MFi-approved Insta360 Nano simply clips onto an iPhone …

Tags:Cameras| iPhone| Virtual Reality