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Helsinki University Chooses Sony

17 Sony laser projectors have been purchased by the University of Helsinki, in Finland. Performance, reliability and total lifetime ownership costs ...

PlayStation 4 Sales Now 70.6 Million, PSVR Hits 2 Million

Sony recently announced that the PlayStation 4 has achieved 70.6 million unit sales. The earlier PlayStation 3 sold around 84 million. ...

Peerless Supports UWS’s Rotating Video Wall

The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) has recently opened a new atrium and reception area, using a rotating mount ...

Holotronica Confirms European Distribution Deal with Gerriets

Holotronica, owner of Holo-Gauze, the world-renowned 3D display solution for large hologram effects, has announced Gerriets GmbH as its exclusive European ...

Roku Announces Sharp Roku TV Models

Roku, Inc. today announced that it has added the Sharp brand to the Roku TV program. Sharp Roku TV™ models will ...

MaxLinear Wins Order for Sky Q Wideband LNB Chips

Semiconductor maker MaxLinear has won a deal with Microelectronics Technology Inc to supply its MxL80x RF downconverter to be used in ...

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MBO at LED Specialist ICT

by Bob Raikes

ICT AG of Germany, an LED specialist, have completed an MBO that means that the founders have sold to two management board members and the company, which has grown from 110 staff in 2013 …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 41

IDC Looks at China’s eTailer Trends for Devices in 2017

by Bob Raikes

IDC released some data on the eTailer market in China. We have included a couple of charts, but if you are interested in printers, PCs and other categories, including VR and tablets, it’s worth …

Tags:China| Desktop Monitors| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Nvidia Halts Distribution of GeForce Cards to Server and HPC Clients

by Andrew Fenn

Nvidia has made a bold and controversial move, preventing distributors from selling GeForce graphics cards to their server and high-performance computer (HPC) clients, in favour of its professional—and more expensive—Quadro and Tesla products. Nvidia’s …

Tags:GPUs| Graphics Cards| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Close to GTX 1080

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia has introduced the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti which joins the Pascal gaming line up between the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. Memory is 8GB and the board design is intended to be …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 41

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Innolux Sees Strong Q3

by Yvette Raikes

Innolux saw Q3 net profits of NT$8.8 billion ($290 million), up from NT$3.1 billion ($101 million) a year ago, on turnover which rose to NT$79.5 billion ($2.6 billion) from NT$74.5 billion ($2.5 billion). For …

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

AU Optronics “Guardedly Optimistic” Going Into Q4

by Andrew Fenn

LCD panel-maker AU Optronics (AUO) is “guardedly optimistic” as it moves into the fourth quarter of 2017, according to Digitimes. Digitimes quotes AUO chairman Paul Peng as saying that the panel industry is stable …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

AOT Offering Mini-LEDs for BLUs

by Bob Raikes

Local sources say that Taiwan-based Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Inc said in its investor conference that it planned to develop mini LEDs for backlighting in TVs. Although the technology is likely to be more expensive …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Avast Ye Mateys! A Pirate’s Guide to Virtual Reality

by Len Scrogan

Imagine for a moment the weatherworn seafaring pirate of old. What distinguishing characteristic comes to mind? It’s the eyepatch, of course. But have you ever wondered why these fearless buccaneers wore eyepatches? While co-presenting …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Court Overturns Vodafone/Ziggo Approval

by Bob Raikes

The EU’s General Court has overturned the approval of the merger between Vodafone and Ziggo in the Netherlands, after an appeal by KPN. (Reuters: EC Will Approve Vodafone/Liberty Deal) The European Commission had approved …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vodafone| Vol 24 - Issue 41

What’s Bubbling Up in the Ed Market?

by Len Scrogan

What are the late-breaking developments in educational tech? Which innovations are trending in the near term? What is expected to surge and scale in schools? And which innovations promise to swell over the long …

Tags:Education| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Zwim Developing HUD for Swimmers

by Bob Raikes

Zwim from South Korea has developed a pair of goggles for swimmers and with an integrated HUD. The group has started an Indiegogo project and had raise $12,400 from a goal of $20,000 when …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Vol 24 - Issue 41

A Mixed Week for OLED

by Bob Raikes

OLEDs, and, in particular, OLED TV took up a fair amount of my time this week, as I attended the LG OLED Day (which was nearly all about TV) in Munich and spent some …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED TVs| OLEDs| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 40