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iPhone 6 Tops Shipments in 2016

According to IHS Markit, sales of Apple iPhone 6s beat all competitors in 2016. In the last quarter of 2016, the ...

Matrox Drives New Signage in Finland

The Kamppi shopping centre in Helsinki, Finland has installed a 14.4m-high LED screen, powered by Matrox’s Mura MPX Series graphics cards. ...

Vuzix Rolls-Out Shipments of iWear Video Headphones to Consumers

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, announced that ...

LG Remains EISA Winner for Third Year

LG’s 77″ EC980V (EC9800 outside Europe and an UltraHD OLED TV) has won an award from the European Imaging and Sound ...

Clear Channel May Sell European Assets

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings is reported to be considering options for its European business, having been approached with offers for the ...

Inview Uses Access NetFront Browser

Inview will use the Access NetFront HTML5 browser in its middleware for cost-effective STBs. Inview believes that this will enhance its ...

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Paper Planes Become Cheap Drones

by Tom Allen

PowerUp FPV is a project that recently – and quickly – beat its funding goal on Kickstarter, by almost 300%. The toy, built in collaboration with drone maker Parrot, is a propeller and camera …

Tags:Back Panel| Cameras| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 52| Wearables

Canon Builds on Past Flagship

by Tom Allen

Canon is ending the year with a bang, announcing four new projectors with two different technologies. The DLP models are the LX-MU500 (1920 x 1200) and LX-MW500 (1280 x 800), both with 5,000 lumens …

Tags:Canon| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| LCOS| Vol 22 - Issue 51

LG To Unveil New Version Of Popular webOS Smart TV Platform At CES 2016

by Tom Allen

With the popularity and demand for advanced smart TV capabilities continuing to dominate home entertainment, LG will unveil its 2016 Smart TV lineup featuring the updated webOS 3.0 Smart TV platform in two weeks …

Tags:CES 2016| LG Electronics (LGE)| Operating Systems| Smart TV

Large-Size Rollables Coming to CES?

by Tom Allen

A new gaming brand will be revealed by BenQ, called Zowie. Zowie products will cover monitors and peripherals, such as mice and keypads, with a focus on the competitive gaming (eSports) market. In monitors, …

Tags:BenQ| CES 2016| Desktop Monitors| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Apple

Apple Agrees 7-Year Deal with Ericsson

by Tom Allen

Apple and Ericsson have been in legal battles over Apple’s use of Ericsson’s technologies in its iPhone and iPad devices for around three years now – and have finally reached an agreement. A seven-year …

Tags:Apple| Ericsson| Large Display Monitor| Licensing| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Vol 22 - Issue 51

2015 – Started with CES and an LED Story

by Bob Raikes

I had thought about writing a review of 2015 and the display stories that we had covered (and I still might), but the more I thought about developments in the year, the more one …

Tags:China| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 51

VR in the Soviet States

by Tom Allen

VoD service Megogo has launched its own VR app, Megogo VR. The service, which is available in 15 of the former Soviet states, is available on Android now; an iOS app will follow soon. …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Apps| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| VOD| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Philips

Philips Takes EET in DACH

by Tom Allen

EET Europarts has joined Philips as a distributor of pro AV and signage products in the DACH region.

Toshiba Forecasts Record Loss

by Tom Allen

In a gloomy end to the year, Toshiba has announced that it will cut 6,800 jobs from its PC, video and consumer electronics divisions – representing 3% of the firm’s total employees. The cuts …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 51

BOE Signs G10.5 Supply Agreement with Corning

by Tom Allen

Corning is to establish a production base adjacent to BOE’s under-construction G10.5 fab in Hefei, China, from where it will supply glass substrates to the new plant. Glass production is expected to support BOE’s …

Tags:BOE| China| Corning| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 51

HEVC Advance Lowers Royalty Rates

by Milos Pavlovic

HEVC Advance CEO, Peter Moller, said, “We are…confident that the revised pricing structure and rates balance the needs of both HEVC users and patent owners”.HEVC Advance – one of the licensing bodies for the …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Licensing| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 51

BT Partners with Netflix

by Tom Allen

UltraHD Netflix content can now be streamed to BT’s new UHD STB.

Tags:4k| BT| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Streaming Video| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 51