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Media Broadcast Tests Live UHD

Germany’s Media Broadcast tested an UltraHD broadcast, via satellite, on the 2nd April. The firm showed a live transmission of the ...

Is Smart TV better in the TV or in the Cloud?

The other day, I was reading an article that was complaining about the relative lack of development in Smart TV technology ...

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 32

Doogee of China has launched a new handset called the T5, aka ‘the Businessport Phone’. It is IP67-compliant, with a 5″ ...

SMI Shows First Eye Tracking Upgrade for Augmented Reality Glasses

At the 2015 Siggraph Conference, SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) shows the world’s first Eye Tracking Integration for augmented reality, based on Epson’s ...

ATSC Tested at Plug Fest

ONE Media and Sinclair Broadcast Group hosted an ATSC 3.0 Plug recently, with the purpose of testing interoperability between modulators and ...

New HTC Smartphone Range Incoming

HTC will roll out a new series of smartphones in the second half of 2015, according to chairwoman and CEO Cher ...

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Gartner: Endpoint Trends Herald Mobile Workforce

by Tom Allen

Gartner has released several predictions covering ‘endpoint’ technology in a new report (log-in required) (http://tinyurl.com/o79fs8u). The most interesting forecast, for us, is that 30% of businesses will spend more on displays than on PCs …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 22 - Issue 47| Windows

EC Approves Avago’s Broadcom Buyout

by Tom Allen

The European Commission has approved Avago Technologies’ acquisition of Broadcom (Avago to Buy Broadcom for $37 Billion). The EC’s investigation showed that the company’s portfolios are mainly complementary; Broadcom produces ‘off-the-shelf’ chips for the …

Tags:Avago Technologies| Broadcom| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Lenovo Kills Vibe

by Tom Allen

Chinese sources have said that Lenovo will phase out its Vibe smartphone brand, in favour of replacing it with the Lemon series and Motorola branding, in the China market.

Tags:Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 47

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SDC to Win Huawei Orders

by Tom Allen

Huawei is said to be looking at placing panel orders with Samsung Display, rather than current supplier Japan Display, according to sources in Asia. The Chinese company is seeking lower-priced panels, to be able …

Tags:Huawei| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Atheer Reveals More about AiR in Interview

by Norbert Hildebrand

With the recent release of their AiR glasses as well as platform, Atheer is aiming strongly at the enterprise market like so many other AR glasses and software developers. The recipe is simple, develop …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Android| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor

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ACES WCG/HDR Encoding Explained

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) has long puzzled me. At the November 18th section meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and Television New York chapter, Jim Houston, co-chair of the ACES Project …

Tags:ACES| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| Vol 22 - Issue 47| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Tellywood Focuses on Immersive Content

by Tom Allen

2015 hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster film release year but SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) 2015 Symposium attendees are eternally optimistic that tomorrow’s releases will be richer, better and there will …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Technicolor Completes Cisco CPE Acquisition

by Tom Allen

Technicolor has completed its acquisition of Cisco’s customer premises equipment business (this includes the set-top box division), in a cash and stock agreement worth $600 million (Technicolor Acquires Cisco’s CPE Business). The companies have …

Tags:Cisco| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| STBs| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Rising Large Panel Area Offsets Falling Units

by Tom Allen

Large-area display shipments will fall 5% YoY in 2015, says IHS – but the news is not all bad. While unit shipments will decline to 682 million units, large-area TFT-LCD shipment area will grow …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Vol 22 - Issue 47

ITRI Reports Breakthrough in OLED Lifetime

by Chris Chinnock

Taiwan-based ITRI has reported the development of a new OLED device architecture that significantly increases the lifetime of RGB OLED displays. The new structure, called a Plasmon-Coupled Organic Light Emitting Diode (PCOLED), boosts the …

Tags:ITRI| OLED Materials| Vol 22 - Issue 47