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Norxe Uses I/ITSEC to Soft Launch Projector Company

Off the show floor at I/ITSEC, a new projector company was launched called norxe (pronounced Norse). It is Norway-based and founded by Jorn Eriksen, who also founded projectiondesign, which was sold to Barco a few years ago. Norxe’s first product, the P1, is aimed squarely at multi-channel, mission critical markets including training and simulation, virtual … Read more

Spain’s Pay-TV Market is Booming

According to the report from CNMC, 671,000 subscribers have been added to Spain’s pay-TV market in the last year. Market leader Telefónica now has 3.71 million clients, having gained 128,00 over the year, while Vodafone was up 300,000 to 1.2 million. Orange was up 113% YoY with 458,000 subscribers. The total for these three is … Read more

EV Group & NNFC Develop New A/R Coating

EV Group (EVG) of St. Florian, Austria and a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, together with the Korea National NanoFab Center (President Jae Young Lee, NNFC), a nano-technology R&D infrastructure for academia, research institutes and the industry, has developed improved transparent nanostructured anti-reflective coatings for next-generation displays. The ongoing work has been carried … Read more

Apple is testing more than 10 versions of the iPhone 8 – and at least one has a CURVED screen

Reports in the WSJ suggest that Apple has been testing more than ten different prototypes for its next smartphone and that at least one of these has a curved OLED, like the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. There are also reports that Apple has asked for a higher resolution display than the Samsung version. Previous reports … Read more

Samsung May Try Folding Phones Before Flexible

ETTimes of Korea has reported that Samsung is preparing two different approaches to the development of foldable smartphones, one with dual separate displays and another that uses a single flexible OLED. The separate display version will ship first, and the foldable may follow depending on market reaction. JDI is also working on a folding concept … Read more

Google Now Has UltraHD Movies

Google has now added support for UltraHD content to its ‘Google Play Movies & TV’ for customers in the US and Canada at the moment, with other countries to follow shortly. Initially 125 titles have been made available. Costs are higher than for HD ($25-$30 for UHD compared to $13-$15 to own for HD, $8 … Read more