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Qualcomm Results 02/11/2016

Qualcomm

Qualcomm Inc. announced Q4 FY16 consolidated sales of $6.2 bn with Q4 FY16 net profit of $1.6 bn, resulting in a net profit margin of 26%. Both sales and net profit were significantly higher than last year’s Q4 figures of $5.5bn and $1.1 bn, by 13% and 45% respectively. However, the financial results were not … Read more

Canon Releases New 1200cd Monitor for Dolby Vision Mastering

Canon

Canon was highlighting their new DP-V2420 and DP-V1710 24” and 17” HDR mastering monitors at the SMPTE conference. We have reported on them before (New Canon Projector and Broadcast Monitors Support HDR), but Canon now says the peak luminance on the 24” is 1200 cd/m² compared to 1000 cd/m² as reported previously. Full field white … Read more

RealD Develops Synthetic Shutter Solution for HFR

RealD has turned to signal processing techniques to create a novel way of processing frames of video. Called a synthetic shutter, the technique can be used with high frame rate capture and a shutter shape than can vary from the traditional square wave to create a continuous variety of moving images at various frame rates. … Read more

Hyundai Showrooms in Turkey go Digital

Hyundai in Turkey has created digital dealerships to sell its cars in Turkey with 80 sites under development. The dealerships have touch systems where consumers can get information about the cars being offered. The company is also planning to roll out 10 to 20 interactive touchscreen table systems throughout the country, away from dealerships in … Read more

Epson Wins at AED with 3LCD

Epson has won a deal with Belgium-based rental company, AED, to supply 130 laser projectors, including 70 of the EB-L1505U 3LCD projector which is a 1920 x 1200 laser phosphor projector that features 12,000 Ansi lumens of output. Thierry Heldenbergh, MD, AED Display, said, “We chose Epson because they met and even exceeded our very … Read more

Warranty Week Checks Notebooks

We reported on the Warranty Week summaries on warranty for consumer electronics over the last few weeks. Now the site has reported on retail notebook warranties in the US. 18 major retail chains were checked and eight suppliers or insurers were found to support the warranties. Dell, Acer and HP notebooks were checked at prices … Read more

AMD Promoting New Pro 400 Series Graphics

AMD has formally released the Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics which are in the MacBook Pro that Apple announced last week (Apple Event Introduces New Mac Book Pro). AMD said that the chip was specifically designed for content creators and that the chip uses a 14nm FinFET as well as ‘die thinning’ to reduce the … Read more

Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics: AMD’s Most Powerful Ultrathin Graphics Processors

Today AMD unveiled a new family of power-efficient graphics processors, Radeon™ Pro 400 Series Graphics. Available first in the all-new 15-inch MacBook Pro, select Radeon Pro 400 Series graphics deliver extraordinary performance and efficiency gains over the prior generation to fuel modern creative efforts from anywhere inspiration strikes. Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics are designed … Read more

ViewSonic Sets Holiday Pricing

ViewSonic in the US gave pricing of some monitors and projectors for sale in the holiday season. There are two new monitors. The XG2703-GS is aimed at gamers and features NVidia’s G-Sync and Ultra-Low Motion Blur technologies with a 165Hz refresh rate. It has a 27″ IPS panel with WQHD (2560×1440) resolution and a claimed … Read more

ViewSonic Introduces Desktop Monitor with NVIDIA G-SYNC; Laser Projector for Home Theaters; and Prosumer Ultra-Thin Bezel Display for Photo/Video Editing

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, showcases the company’s award-winning line of display products, including the highly anticipated XG2703-GS gaming monitor, the VP2468 professional grade Delta E<2 monitor, and the LS820 laser-based, ultra-short throw home theater projector. These are the ideal holiday gifts for any enthusiast that loves games, photography/video editing, … Read more

Barco and CEC-Panda J/V Officially Opened

Barco and CEC-Panda have officially opened their new joint venture, Barco China Electronics Visualization Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. (Barco-CEC). The new company is targeting control room and virtual reality applications. The joint venture was established at Nanjing on 31 March (‘Barco CEC’ Addresses China) and is incorporated in Nanjing (Panda headquarters) and headquartered in Shenzhen … Read more