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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’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
V-Nova has announced that its Perseus compression software will be demonstrated at IBC 2016 in Amsterdam (stand 14.K17). These will include mobile VoD platforms; live 1920 x 1980 sports over mobile at sub-1.5Mbps; IPTV distribution; and the contribution of visually lossless UltraHD international feeds.
Wisechip has said that it will show flexible (40-60mm bend radius) and transparent PMOLEDs at Touch Taiwan. Mass production will begin this year. Image: OLED-Info
Hy-Line in Germany is now distributing a new 31.5″ display from Sharp: the LQ315D1JG93. It is a B2B model that can be used in the wider temperature range of of -10 ° C to + 60 ° C.
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
E Ink Holdings has said that it expects its revenues for this quarter to grow by 20% compared to Q2, although YoY growth will be mostly flat (from NT$4.3 billion ($135.8 million) in Q3’15). Seasonal demand will help to raise the company’s revenues. Financial executive, Lloyd Chen, told an investors’ conference that gross margin is … Read more
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
ABOX42 is set to unveil its new Smart STB platform M30 at IBC 2016, that will take place in Amsterdam from 8th to 12th September 2016. The STB has a built-in Smart Home Gateway for advanced operator projects and allows the operator to combine classical TV services with new Smart Home services. Communication interfaces for … Read more
In the same week as Tesla and Panasonic open the Gigafactory – a massive plant in Nevada producing lithium-ion batteries – it is ironic that MIT published a paper on battery evolution, which could make Li-ion devices obsolete. Published in Nature Energy, the paper deals with so-called lithium-air batteries. The concept is not new: such … Read more
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
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
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