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MVG, the Munich travel company, working with marketing firm MC R&D, has doubled screen coverage of its passenger TV service, it said in a press release. Until now the service has been available on 84 trains in the U-Bahn (metro) but it has now been extended to include 50 overground trams. This has increased the … Read more
Thanks to the greater number of display panels in cars, automotive display panel shipments worldwide will rise from 157 million panels in 2015 to 207 million units in 2019, according to Digitimes Research, giving a CAGR of 7.2%. The biggest share is taken by central information displays, which range from 7″ 840 x 480 to … Read more
Google is said to be preparing to announce new hardware updates on October 4th. The company plans to present two smartphones, the Pixel and Pixel XL, a 4K Chromecast and more details on the Google Home platform, as well as a design for a DaydreamVR viewing device (provisionally named Daydream View). While details have not … Read more
Shenzhen Skyworth Digital Technology Co. LTD., a leading set-top box and smart home solutions provider, today unveiled the miniStation – the OTT gaming console that is the result of its successful partnership with Internet value-added services provider Tencent Holdings Limited. miniStation – an innovative TV game console based on the Android Operating System – offers … Read more
V-Nova Ltd., a global software IP company that delivers game-changing video and data encoding solutions, and Vimmi, the technology leader in distributed video delivery network platforms, today announced that V-Nova PERSEUS™ video compression has been integrated within the Vimmi video delivery platform. The integration represents a major milestone in enabling the launch of PERSEUS-powered online … Read more
For the second time in three months market research firm IDC cut its smartphone forecast amid maturing world-wide markets as competitive forces continue to build in the space. New research released this week from the firm said it is reducing growth in global smartphone shipments from an initial 3.4% to 1.6% for the year. IDC … Read more
Daimler’s CEO Dieter Zetsche delivered a keynote address at IFA this year which focused on three new features coming to Mercedes automobiles. These include Office Manager, Fitness Coach and Personal Assistant. Office Manager is designed to allow you to work while in your Mercedes on the way to the office. It will alert you of … Read more
Toshiba was at IFA to describe its new deal with Vestel (Vestel Wins Toshiba Brand for TV in Europe) and to show off the 2017 TV line, which should be ready by Q2’17. Planned series include the 36 series (FHD in 32, 40, 43 and 49”), 66 series (UHD in 32, 40, 43 and 49”) … Read more
Vestel, the big Turkish TV brand and OEM supplier for Europe, used IFA to unveil plans to offer UltraHD HDR OLED TVs. The first sets at 55” and 65” should be ready for the market before the end of the year. The TVs will use panels from LG Display and will feature HDR10 compatibility. Support … Read more
We stopped by the Changhong at IFA. We saw a lot of TVs, most of which were previously shown at CES 2016. This includes a line of curved OLED 65” HDR TVs that looked quite good and a lot of LCD TVs. New at IFA is a 75” LCD HDR 4K TV. It offers HDR10 … Read more
We don’t normally bring out a Display Daily at the weekend, but we thought you’d appreciate a ‘heads up’ on a big story that’s causing a buzz among those ‘in the loop’ at IFA. You may have seen the news that Hanjin Shipping of Korea went into bankruptcy a couple of days ago. So what … Read more
JVC used IFA to launch its newest home theater projector with a native 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution set of D-ILA imagers. These imagers are new too at only 0.69″ in diagonal – that’s a tiny 3.8 micron pixel pitch. This appears to be the densest imager that JVC has made to date. Called the … Read more
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