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Mediatek Stretches from Wearables to UltraHD TVs

Mediatek Eyewear refererence design We commented in our report on the Gitex show in Dubai that chip-maker, Mediatek, was taking a ...

Spanish Pay-TV Grows With Multi-Play

Pay-TV adoption in Spain is being boosted by combination packages, which roll five services (mobile and landline phone; mobile and fixed ...

Acer’s April Sales Down 36% MoM

Acer reported a 36% drop in sales in April from March and a 17.8% fall from April 2014 to NT$15.8 billion ...

Best Buy Licenses Sharp Brand

Best Buy and Sharp have signed a licensing agreement (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 43) which allows the US chain to ...

Xtalic Introduces LUNA® USB: The Novel USB-C Connector Solution That Enables Waterproof Smartphones

LUNA® USB is a newly engineered connector plating technology that uses Xtalic nanostructured metal alloys to provide USB-C connectors with superior ...

How does Samsung grow its TV business?

My attention was drawn to the news, reported by the FT, that LG and Samsung are starting to see competition in ...

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Matrox Wins Four Prestigious Industry Awards at InfoComm 2016

by Isaac Oburu

Matrox® today announced that its new Monarch™ LCS lecture capture appliance, Mura™ IPX 4K IP decode & display multiviewer cards, Maevex™ 6100 multi-channel 4K encoders and C900 nine-output graphics cards were the recipients of …

Tags:Awards| Infocomm 2016| Matrox

Value Electronics UHD Shoot-out at CES Week

by Chris Chinnock

Retailer Value Electronics, working with AVPro and ISF founder Joel Silver, offered a series of seminars at CE Week that was billed as a “shoot out” between four UHD HDR TVs. Participants were given …

Tags:CE Week 2016| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| sony| Vizio| Vol 23 - Issue 25| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)| Wide Viewing Angles

LG SIGNATURE 4K OLED TV Crowned ‘King Of TV’ At CE Week 2016

by Isaac Oburu

LG Electronics’ SIGNATURE 4K OLED TV was crowned “2016 King of TV” in the 13th Annual Value Electronics TV Shootout™ in a competition among four contending flagship 4K Ultra HD TV models from LG …

Tags:Awards| LG Electronics (LGE)| Smart TV| UltraHD & 4K

Christie is Proud of its Lasers

by Tom Allen

Although Christie, like most companies at the show, was not launching any new products, it did have a clear focus on one particular area: laser projection. The company had provided one of its Solaria …

Tags:Christie| CineEurope 2016| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Google Moving to Hardware

by Tom Allen

A Google-branded smartphone is in the works, according to the Telegraph. Designing its own hardware, as Microsoft found, would give Google more control over all aspects of the design – not just the Android …

Tags:Google| Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Calibrating HDR TVs Will Get Easier

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung Electronics was at the CE Week event in New York City showcasing their new HDR calibration disc along with a complete UHD/HDR calibration workflow featuring the CalMan software from SpectraCal. The disc and …

Tags:CE Week 2016| Display Calibration| Display Metrology| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 25| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Samsung Brings HDR to Hybrids

by Tom Allen

Samsung, with Best Buy, has launched a new convertible PC that can support HDR content – a first, as far as we’re aware. The new ‘Video HDR’ mode on the Notebook 7 Spin can …

Tags:Convertible PCs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 25

BBC

BBC Prepares for UltraHD

by Tom Allen

The BBC has said that it is ‘stockpiling’ UltraHD footage, which Advanced Television states is in preparation for the launch of a dedicated channel about a year from now. The channel will be launched …

Tags:4k| BBC| Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 25

Litemax’s First UK Channel Conference: Introducing Innovative Resizing LCD’s and Sunlight Readable Displays for Industrial, Transportation and Retail Applications

by Isaac Oburu

Litemax Electronics, a leader in enabling intelligent vertical market platforms for industrial displays and computing, announced today they will be hosting the company’s first UK channel conference on 16th September 2016, together with their …

Tags:Digital Signage| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Events| Sunlight Readable Displays| UK (United Kingdom)

BlackBerry

BlackBerry Result 23/06/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Blackberry reported Q1 2016 net loss of $670 million, compared to a net profit of $68 million in the previous year. Turnover was $400 million, down 40% YoY from $658 million. An overall dismal …

Tags:BlackBerry| Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Huawei Wants to Reduce Reliance on Android

by Tom Allen

The Information claims that Huawei is developing its own smartphone OS, to reduce its reliance on Android. The company currently uses a custom skin for the Android OS (which has been criticised for looking …

Tags:Android| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 23 - Issue 25