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V-Nova Ports Perseus to Nvidia

The Perseus codec from V-Nova (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements) has been ported to run on Nvidia GPUs. GPU-enabled Perseus ...

Sony’s First Xperia® X Series Coming to the United States This Summer

The next generation of the Xperia brand has arrived. Sony Mobile Communications (“Sony Mobile”) today announced that the Xperia® X series ...

Apple iPad Shipments Growing

Digitimes is quoting ‘upstream supply chain’ sources as saying that the shipment of Apple tablets will grow to around 600K units ...

PC Gaming Hardware Market Steamrolls Forward

Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced that the global PC Gaming ...

Gartner Survey Finds That Most Smartphone Users Spend Nothing on Apps

Over half of smartphone users spend no money on smartphone apps (paid-for downloads and in-app transactions), according to a new survey ...

Nanoco Signs Follow-on Joint Development Agreement with Osram

Nanoco Group plc (LSE:NANO), a world leader in the development and manufacture of cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials, announces it ...

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Mobile POS Will Enjoy Huge Growth

by Tom Allen

Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) terminals will handle 40% of all retail transaction value in 2021 – up from an expected 12% this year. The prediction comes from Juniper Research. mPOS is defined as smartphone- and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| POS| Retail| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Digital is Changing How We Use Cinema

by Tom Allen

The rise of digital cinema over the last decade has been, in a word, meteoric; more than 98% of the world’s screens are now digitised, according to IHS. Cinema attendance is rising in many …

Tags:Cinema going| Cinema Projection| Consoles| Game Playing| Vol 23 - Issue 23

OTT is Slowing Down

by Tom Allen

The US OTT market is approaching saturation, says Strategy Analytics, as the growth rate has been recorded as slowing for the first time. US consumers will spend $6.6 billion on OTT services like Netflix …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 22

PMDA is a New EPG Metadata Source

by Tom Allen

GVIDI (Netherlands), Deutsche Mailbox, (Germany) We-TV (France) and EBS (UK) have come together to form a group called the Program Metadata Alliance. The aim is to provide accurate EPG metadata to TV providers across …

Tags:EPGs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Solos Promotes With Kickstarter

by Tom Allen

Solos has launched a Kickstarter campaign (http://tinyurl.com/gn38566) to promote its AR smart cycling glasses. These have been developed with the US cycling team. They use a HUD, paired with performance tracking and training tools. …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Eyewear| Kopin| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Also Expands to New Markets

by Tom Allen

German distributor, Also, has extended its reach to new countries. After 14 years, the firm has opened a reseller network in France, Denmark and Switzerland. Also expects to have 200 resellers in France and …

Tags:Also| France| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nordics| Switzerland| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Graphene Enables 40% EQE

by Tom Allen

Researchers at the KAIST research institute and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea have built a graphene electrode structure, which can be used for ‘highly efficient’ flexible OLED units. The graphene …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Graphene| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Reversible Display Goes to CPT

by Tom Allen

Researchers from Taiwan’s ITRI (Display Technology Centre) have developed a foldable OLED display that can be concave or convex. Sources say that the technology will be transferred to CPT in Q4’16. CPT will then …

Tags:AMOLED| ITRI| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Feud Escalates Over SUHD Branding

by Tom Allen

Samsung has asked LG Electronics to halt its use of “deceptive marketing” when it comes to the company’s UltraHD TVs, says the Korea Times. Samsung launched its SUHD TV brand at CES 2014, and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Night Vision Comes to Mobile

by Tom Allen

Danish company Lumignon was founded in 2009, and introduced the T1 smartphone in 2010. It followed with the T2 (2012) and T2 HD (2014). The firm is keeping up its two-year release cycle with …

Tags:Cameras| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Graphene for the Display Market

by Ron Mertens

Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a chicken wire pattern. It is a 2D material, which at only one-atom thick manages to be 200 times stronger than steel and able to …

Tags:Graphene| ITO Replacement| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 22

The Smartphone Market – A Lesson in Business Strategy

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we think about the cellular phones today we just assume we are talking about the smartphone as there is almost no other type available any more. While this is not completely true, the …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 22