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The Spanish government is working with interested parties to develop plans for the release of the 700MHz band from DTT by 2020 or 2022. The country continues to roll out broadband connectivity and 98% of of the population will have at least 30 Mbps by 2020.
The CEO of Facebook-owned VR company Oculus, Brendan Iribe, has stepped down to lead the PC VR group within the firm. He said that he missed being involved in new technology and building leading-edge products and wants to work on the development of the Rift VR headset. He will assist Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer in … Read more
Details of an update to the Lenovo X1 ThinkPad has been leaked on an Chinese website. The device is said to be 6% lighter and 8% smaller than last year’s with a 14″ display with very slim display that will be in FullHD with touch or 2560×1440 without touch. Storage will be up to 1TB … Read more
Christie has added the Extreme Series to its Aspect family of LCD displays. The new series consists of four models: FHD553-XE (FullHD + 500cd/m²), FHD553-XE-R , FHD553-XE-H (FullHD + 700cd/m²), and FHD553-XE-HR and include a range of brightness levels. The R versions are designed to run from 48V DC power supplies Designed for use in … Read more
PwC has found that the rate of cord-cutting in the US has slowed down after surveying 1200 US consumers, and it sees OTT services now developing as add-on to traditional Pay TV, rather than as replacements. Compared to last year, the share of US consumers expecting to still be subscribing to Pay TV in one … Read more
Epson US has announced the PowerLite 975W projector – Epson’s first classroom projector to offer up to a 10,000-hour lamp life in Bright Mode1. The unit features 3,600 lumens of color brightness and 1280 x 800 resolution with 15,000:1 contrast. Features include support for Miracast and Epson’s iProjection4 wireless display solution, including the display of … Read more
Dean Takehashi has made a detailed report on the Nintendo Switch on Venturebeat. He has pointed out that the Switch, which is due in 2017, will not be more powerful than the PlayStation 4, which is now three years old as the device uses an Nvidia Maxwell architecture chip, rather than the more recent Pascal … Read more
IHS Markit expects sales of flexible displays to grow from 59 million in 2016 to 139 million in 2017, an increase of 135%. After that, growth will slow, but will be steady to the end of the forecast period in 2023. In 2017, flexible displays will be 3.8% of all displays, by volume and 20% … Read more
The Nikkei and the Japan Times report that Foxconn has decided that Sharp should stop supplying panels to Samsung’s TV business as the companies have, apparently, been unable to agree on pricing. As a result, Samsung is reported to be looking for another source of panels, as it has been cutting back its own capacity … Read more
SY Electronics has officially appointed Exertis to distribute its digital signage solutions in the UK.
Synaptics has a couple of new chips, including the R66452 which is a display driver for OLED smartphones and supports resolutions up to 1080 x 2160, HDR and 90Hz. The higher rate of refresh should make the chip suitable for VR applications. The chip also has flexible digital gamma control for smooth dimming, local-area ACL … Read more
Bang & Olufsen has announced three new TVs in its Avant NG range, in 55″, 75″ and 85″ sizes. The series succeeds the previous Avant range. The new TVs support Android and the BeoRemote One BT and have adopted features from the BeoVision 14 products announced earlier this year. (New Sets from Bang & Olufsen … Read more
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