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Visteon is one of the biggest suppliers of instrumentation and consoles for vehicles that was spun off from Ford in 2000 and we first met them at CES in We had a tour around the booth which had direct view displays and HUDs. We started by looking at a range of different digital/hybrid options. Visteon … Read more
At CES, the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center is the center of things automotive, with driving demos being held in the so-called Central Plaza near the Monorail station. Many of the cars and trucks were relatively ordinary, simply being used as platforms for thousand-watt (or more) speaker systems, which we will not … Read more
VoiceLabs, the leader in Voice Experience Analytics, today releases the first comprehensive report on the voice-first market and announces investment from The Chernin Group. Read VoiceLabs’ 2017 Voice Report. VoiceLabs is the most widely used voice analytics platform for Amazon Alexa, and is the voice analytics launch partner for Actions on Google. VoiceLabs has a … Read more
Continental Automotive GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) is one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive components, electronic subsystems, and tires. During the company’s Press Day press conference, its spokesman made several interesting points. The company, through a recent acquisition, is developing flash Lidar, which gives “much better picture quality under all circumstances” than standard scanning Lidar, … Read more
AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV® will be showcasing its new Xtreme™ Outdoor IR Touch Overlay in Hall 12, Stand E57, at ISE 2017, Amsterdam RAI, 7-10 February. The touch overlay (IRTO49-100/IRTO55-100) is now available to order with Peerless-AV’s 49” and 55″ Xtreme Outdoor Displays or can be purchased as an interactive upgrade option for existing 49” … Read more
AVTop in Germany has released a new version of its tool called HDRmaster that is designed to the analysis of RAW signal levels of HDR video source files and to edit metadata. AVTop quoted a client as saying that the the tool increased workflow efficiency.
In the Innovation zone in the Sands, we found an interesting company, Think&Go, from Aix en Provence in France that has developed NFC technology that can be fitted into large format displays (LFDs). The antennas are fitted behind the backlights of commercial displays (but typically within the original case). A typical application might use 10 … Read more
Apple has filed a suit against Qualcomm that claims that the firm’s policy of charging royalties based on the value of the item being sold is unfair. Apple believes that this penalises its own development of value-added features and wants to pay a fixed fee based on the technology. The company also said that Qualcomm’s … Read more
ZVEI commissioned a survey of 2,000 German consumers and found that the TV is still the preferred way to watch TV but there are changes in viewing practice. The study can be downloaded (although it’s in German). Other data from the survey suggest that penetration of Smart TVs in Germany is now 50%, while HD … Read more
Sony is reported by Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun to be looking at switching to OLED displays for its high end smartphones in 2018 or 2019. Analyst Comment Frankly, given that the two brand leaders will be using OLED, it would be amazing if Sony wasn’t looking very hard at OLED. (BR)
Samsung has launched a new phone that will start to sell in China and has a 5.7″ FullHD Super AMOLED display. The phone uses an Octacore Snapdragon 625 with 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage (expandable to 256GB). Front and rear cameras are 16MP and can record 1080P30 video. Thickness is 7mm and the … Read more
Nikkei reports that Toshiba in Japan plans to launch a 55″ OLED TV in March, with Panasonic due to ship its new models in April. Pricing for the sets has been reducing in Japan, faster than LCD models and the company said that the LG OLED55B6P is selling for about ¥300,000 ($2,658).
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