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The Society for Information Display’s Detroit Chapter sponsored its 23rd Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays in Livonia, Michigan, on September 27 and 28. This year’s edition was called ‘Vehicle Displays and Interfaces 2016’. Attendance jumped to 400 people, up from 300 last year, and the organizers found a new venue, the Burton Manor Conference Center, … Read more
The Xiaomi box has been spotted at WalmartXiaomi has a new Android TV Box that supports UltraHD and HDR (HDR10 and HLG) and will cost $69 (the same as the Google Ultra). It is based on Android TV version 6.0 and features 802.11ac Wi-Fi, HEVC and VP9 decoding, and is driven by a quad-core CPU … Read more
Lang AG will start distributing DynaScan’s screens, videowalls and other displays in Germany, Austria and Switzerland following a distribution deal signed by the two companies.
Crisp brand Lay’s is one of the sponsors of the UEFA Champions League and is offering lots of prizes in its “Cheer for your Favourite” campaign. This includes a Snapchat lens, which fans can use to make “selfies” in their team’s shirt with the crisp pack colour also changed to match their team. In addition … Read more
NEC has launched the NC1000C is an ‘all-in-one’ cinema projector which has 2048 x 1080 (DCI 2K) resolution, from three 0.69″ DLP chips and a dual 400W NSH lamp lighting system. The projector is designed to support DCI specifications for screens up to 10.6 m (1.8 gain screen) and NEC said that it can support … Read more
The MTV Video Music Awards held at Madison Square Garden in New York were shown live on cable networks, smart TVs, mobile devices and the internet. There were multiple video screens at the venue, including an LED wall at the rear of the main stage. This consisted of Winvision’s Win9 panels with a centre opening, … Read more
Blackberry has said that it no longer plans to make its own handsets, as we suggested after comments in early August. (Blackberry Moves Towards Pure Software) Unique products will continue to be offered, but design manufacturing will be outsourced. New phones are expected to include the physical keyboard that has been the key feature for … Read more
Xiaomi has launched new smartphones at the top of its range. The Mi 5s has a 5.15″ FullHD pixel IPS display driven by a Snapdragon 821 CPU and with 3GB (+64GB flash) or 4GB (+128GB) of memory. The phone has a USB Type-C port, a 12-megapixel rear camera and a 4-megapixel front camera. A fingerprint … Read more
Sharp sold some of its premises in 2015 when business took a downturn. However, Foxconn chairman Terry Guo and Sharp president Dai Cheng-wu have made good on their promise to buy back the old buildings by purchasing one office block it used to own, opposite its old HQ, at a cost of ¥13.9 billion ($138 … Read more
The Commercial Times in Taiwan has revealed that Foxconn Electronics will begin to manufacture OnePlus 3 in India beginning Q416.
According to Digitimes, Apple’s order for iPhone parts and components for Q4 2016 are between 20% and 30% higher than expected. Touch panel orders have been shared between TPK and GIS, but order fulfillment from GIS seems to have increased while TPK says that there may still be adjustments to come. Nevertheless, shipments of iPhone … Read more
Latin American commercial TV network, Globo, is using ATEME’s Titan to run its 4K HDR VOD offering, the first in Brazil. Content with UHD resolution is available on Globo’s OTT multi-screen platform, which includes TVs, PCs, smartphones and tablets.
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