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Sky Deutschland Introduces New UHD STB

Sky Deutschland, a German pay-TV broadcaster, will launch the Sky+ Pro in Germany and Austria as well as its UltraHD/4K offer in Q4″16. The UHD box has 1 terabyte of hard-disc space and can store up to 185 hours of of HD recordings, and viewers can pause, rewind and record the currently running programme. Sky … Read more

Tru-Vu Brings Military Monitors to Public Use

Tru-Vu’s new VMMOB-19 Series of daylight-viewable 19″ monitors were originally designed for the US military. They have been tested to withstand extreme heat (85°) and cold (-30°), as well movement across rugged terrain. All four of the new monitors feature optical bonding and anti-reflective glass to make them usable in direct sunlight. They are built … Read more

The Dragon is Awake: Chinese Dominate Mobile Phone Rankings

Although smartphone sales are slowing, they still grew 4.3% YoY in Q2’16, to 344 million units, says Gartner in its recent report on the mobile phone market. Total mobile phone sales, including featurephones, were down 0.5%, with five of the top five vendors – four of them Chinese – showing growth: Samsung, Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi … Read more

MSI Produces Slew of VR-Ready Laptops

Nvidia’s new VR-ready GTX 10-series graphics cards, for notebooks, are already seeing use in products from several companies, with MSI announcing perhaps the most comprehensive release to-date. The company is using the GPUs in 11 new notebooks from its GT, GS, GE and GP series. Each of the new notebooks uses Nvidia’s 10-series technology: some … Read more

Intel Unveils Project Alloy – a Merged Reality Headset

At the Intel developers conference 2016 in San Francisco, California, this week, Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, announced the development of a ‘Merged Reality’ headset. They call this Project Alloy and want to redefine what is possible in virtual reality headset today. The importance of this project to Intel was demonstrated by the announcement during the … Read more

So AR/VR Will be Big – What Does That Mean for the Display Industry?

Every day we hear from another market research firm how AR/VR will be big business. The latest announcement from IDC is making AR/VR a $162 billion industry by 2020. This means that the current $5.2 billion market will grow annually at 181% CAGR in the time span from 2015 to 2020. In addition they predict … Read more