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LG to Close Chinese Facility?

LG Electronics ‘may’ close down its Shanghai-based production facilities (called LGESH), according to Korean media. Declining profits and increased labour costs ...

AUO Debuts Circular OLED at CITE

AUO recently showed a range of new products at the China Information Technology Expo 2015, in Shenzen. As well as its ...

NEC Planning LED Signage with Peel-and-Replace Modules

On November 4, NEC’s professional A/V division mounted its New York ShowCase to give its partners a chance to show their ...

4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Specs are Great but is it too Late?

Victor Matsuda, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, has discussed the upcoming UltraHD Blu-ray standard and what it will offer over ...

Dream Vision Adds HEVC to Android Line-up

France’s Dream Vision has launched a follow-up to its 2013 Android DLP projector, the Dreamy Geek (Display Monitor Vol 20 No ...

HTC Announces Vive Wave VR Open Platform

HTC has announced Vive Wave, “a VR open platform and toolset that will open up the path to easy mobile VR ...

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HEVC Wins Primetime Emmy Engineering Award

by Andrew Fenn

Last week, the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), was awarded the Primetime Emmy Engineering Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its development of High Efficiency Video Coding, also …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Huawei to Launch Video Streaming Service in Europe

by Andrew Fenn

Huawei has announced its plans to launch Huawei Video, a Netflix-a-like streaming service, in Spain and Italy during the first quarter of 2018. Jaime Gonzalo, VP of Huawei Consumer Europe Mobile Services, made the …

Tags:Huawei| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Foldable Microsoft Surface Tablet Rumours Emerge

by Andrew Fenn

Microsoft is developing a new foldable Surface tablet, according to Windows Central. Citing unnamed sources, the report states that the device, codenamed Andromeda, will run Windows 10, built with Windows Core OS and CShell. …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Space Needle Launches Virtual Reality Experience

by Andrew Fenn

The Space Needle in Seattle has launched The VR Bar, a free virtual reality experience for visitors to the Needle’s observation deck. Created in collaboration with Panogs and Graffix, The VR Bar provides a …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41

LG webOS Brings Channel Plus and DAZN to Canada

by Andrew Fenn

LG is expanding its webOS smart TV platform with LG Channel Plus and DAZN both coming to Canadian users of its 2017 line of Ultra HD smart TVs. Powered by Xumo, Channel Plus is …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OTT Video| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 41

YouTube Living Room Viewing is Up 70%

by Andrew Fenn

YouTube living room viewing is up 70% year-on-year, according to Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. The video giant’s live television service Youtube TV is now available across two-thirds of the US, while the additional YouTube …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 41| YouTube

UK ATM Blown Up in Attempted Robbery

by Andrew Fenn

An ATM outside a Matalan store in Darlington, UK was blown up last week in an attempted robbery. However, the thieves clearly overestimated the size of explosion required, creating a blast that could be …

Tags:ATMs| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Kyocera Gets Profit Boost

by Yvette Raikes

Kyocera Corporation announced Q2 net profits of ¥26.4 billion ($233 million), up 41% from ¥18.7 billion ($165 million) a year ago, on sales which rose 18% to ¥393.2 billion ($3.5 billion) from ¥333.3 billion …

Tags:Financial Data| Kyocera| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Pimax 8K Headset Beats Oculus Rift Kickstarter Record

by Andrew Fenn

Pimax’s 8K virtual reality headset has now raised $3.22 million on Kickstarter from 4,955 backers—surpassing Oculus Rift’s previous record of $2.44 million—with four days to go. The Kickstarter campaigns for Pimax’s 8K headset and …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Praxair to Supply Nitrogen to Samsung OLED Facility

by Andrew Fenn

Long-term Samsung partner Praxair, an industrial gas supplier from the US, has signed a new agreement to construct and operate an air separation plant that will supply 700 tonnes of nitrogen per day to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Materials| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 41