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Amazon Expands Electronics Trade-in Programme

Amazon’s trade-in service for old products has been expanded in Germany. Used feature phones, smartphones and tablets can now be exchanged, ...

Mediatek Expects to Hit Forecast High End

Mediatek has stuck to its current forecast of a 10% YoY revenue increase this year. Speaking at a media briefing, COO ...

Excess Inventory Leads to Falling TV Panel Demand

IHS expects LCD TV panel demand to fall 3% YoY in 2016, as a result of TV brands’ continual panel inventory ...

NHK Achieves 98% of Rec.2020

Japan’s NHK showed a 50″ LCD display with a laser backlight and ‘very wide’ colour gamut at its Open House event ...

ZeeVee Transmits UltraHD 30 frames via 10GB Ethernet

ZeeVee has developed an IP-based video system that can send uncompressed UltraHD video over 10Gbit Ethernet at 30 fps. The product ...

China to Push Asian SVOD – No Netflix

The Asia Pacific region will have 157.78 million SVOD [subscription video on demand] subscribers by 2021, up from 41.68 million in ...

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Updating Agriculture for the 21st Century

by Tom Allen

Farmers Edge is a North American company that exhibits at trade shows across Canada and the USA. The company recently took on Advance Pro, of Canada, to design a modular and portable AV solution …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Large Display Monitor| North America| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Iiyama’s Gold Phoenix Takes Flight

by Tom Allen

Another of Iiyama’s ‘bird of prey’ gaming monitors has been revealed, joining the Red Eagle (Iiyama is Top of the Food Chain) and Black Hawk (Hunt in the Dark With Iiyama): the slightly-more-friendly-sounding Gold …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Iiyama| Large Display Monitor| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 22 - Issue 50

VR Investees Rise in 2015

by Tom Allen

More and more investment is taking place in the virtual reality space, triggered by Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR for $2 billion. In total, $800 million was invested in VR last year – $540 …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 50

FlexEnable-CPT Show Glassless AMOLED

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable and CPT manufactured a flexible, colour AMOLED display back in June (CPT-FlexEnable Partnership Marks Flexible Mass-Production), and have now published a video of it in action. Watch it below or visit http://tinyurl.com/q6tjc45.

Tags:AMOLED| Back Panel| CPT| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50| YouTube

Toshiba is Ready for Windows 10

by Tom Allen

Toshiba’s new Satellite notebook is the P50-C-18N: a dedicated Windows 10 model. The 15.6″ product features microphones and a dedicated Cortana button. A Core i7 Skylake processor from Intel runs Windows 10 Home, with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| toshiba| Vol 22 - Issue 50

John Lewis Gets Into VR Game

by Tom Allen

John Lewis is currently showing a VR experience at its Oxford Street store in London. The company is stocking the Freefly VR headset exclusively for the next four weeks, and is demonstrating it to …

Tags:Back Panel| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| John Lewis Partnership| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 50

50% of Consumers Will Use Mobile Payments by 2018

by Tom Allen

Mobile payments are gaining traction in developed countries, says Gartner; half of consumers in mature markets are expected to use smartphones or wearables for mobile payments by 2018. The trend is especially prominent in …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Pay TV| Payment Systems| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Wearables

Bloomberg: Apple Building Screens at ‘Secret’ Lab

by Tom Allen

Apple has opened its own display division to develop new screens – at least, according to Bloomberg. People with knowledge of the facility, which is based on Longtan, Taiwan, say that ‘at least’ 50 …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Taiwan| Vol 22 - Issue 50

US Navy Announces BEMR Lab for the Use of Mixed Reality Technology

by Norbert Hildebrand

The military is always good for some interesting twist on new technology, and this is the case with latest news from the US Navy Research Lab (NRL) which announced a new initiative, the BEMR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

Cardboard Camera

Introducing Google’s Cardboard Camera App

by Arthur Berman

As a follow on to its Cardboard viewer and associated Cardboard app, Google has developed, and is now offering, a new virtual reality content creation tool for Android smartphones. Having taken about a year …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

WCG Standards Needed for Multi-Primary Displays

by Matthew Brennesholtz

One of the little secrets of the display, television and cinema industries is the “Red, Green, Blue” primary colors – aren’t. Red isn’t “Red,” it’s reddish-orange. More importantly, green isn’t “Green,” it’s yellowish-green. Only …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| DLP Projectors| LCD displays| LCOS| Multi-Primary| Vol 22 - Issue 50| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Sensational Displays at CES

by Tom Allen

AOC (Titian Ballroom 2,306, Venetian) will show new monitors, including a curved gaming unit, an UltraHD display and a quantum dot screen. The C3583FQ is a gaming monitor with an unusual 160Hz frame rate. …

Tags:CES 2016| Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| MMD (AOC Philips)| Notebooks| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 22 - Issue 50