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LG Electronics’ top-tier 2016 4K TVs have been selected by Netflix for its Netflix Recommended TV program for the second consecutive year. Netflix Recommended TV is an evaluation program recognizing smart TVs that deliver excellent performance for Netflix and a better Internet TV experience overall. LG’s superior webOS 3.0 4K TVs qualified for the global … Read more
Huawei’s new phones, created in collaboration with camera manufacturer Leica, are said to set ‘a new standard in smartphone photography’. They are the P9 and P9 Plus, and were launched at an event in London. The P9 is the first phone developed with Leica. It has a dual-lens camera: one capturing RGB images, and one … Read more
The VE projectors from NEC feature quick power-on, vertical keystone correction (manual, +/-40°) and manual zoom (1.1x). They are designed for mid-sized meeting rooms and classrooms with high ambient light levels; luminance reaches 3,000 lumens. Both the VE303 (800 x 600) and VE303X (1024 x 768) are DLP projectors. They can be used with NEC’s … Read more
QD Vision and Hisense are working together and have announced an initiative to lower display energy consumption. This appears to simply be a new method of promoting the power-savings of QD Vision’s quantum dots. According to independent lab tests, displays using these components use 25% less power than an LCD TV and 50% less than … Read more
Consumer VR (CVR) 2016 is a new conference and exhibition for the virtual and augmented reality industries. Hosted by Archiact, the first show will take place on the 14th May in Vancouver, Canada. The event will cover all aspects of AR and VR, from basic mobile experiences to full-motion-capture multiplayer content.
ZTE reported turnover for the full year 2015 of RMB 100 billion ($15 billion), up 23% YoY. This was split between the Chinese (RMB 53.1 billion ($8.2 billion)) and international (RMB 48.1 billion ($7.4 billion)) markets. Net profit was reported at RMB 3.21 billion ($481 million). Higher 4G system products and Smart City projects assisted … Read more
Following the launch of slim-bezel Style line monitors last October (AOC Slims Style Line Bezels), AOC has decided to further expand the range with two smaller units: the 23″ I2381FH and 21.5″ I2281FWH. Retaining the ‘borderless’ design of the original monitors (2mm outer bezel, 7mm inner bezel), the new displays are designed for smaller desks … Read more
Germany’s Media Broadcast tested an UltraHD broadcast, via satellite, on the 2nd April. The firm showed a live transmission of the Vienna State Opera, with 100% signal availability or the 50fps stream. It used 36MHz of bandwidth and used the Hot Bird satellite at 13° East and Eutelsat at 5° West.
A new Roku Stick has been announced, with a quad-core processor and up to eight times the power of its predecessor. WiFi has been updated to dual-band MIMO and the operating ysstem is Roku OS 7.1. One of the new features is a Private Listening mode, where audio is played from a mobile device’s headphone … Read more
An update to the Playstation 4 console has delivered an in-built game streaming service. The ‘Remote Play’ feature enables gamers to stream games to PCs and Macs on the same network, so that the main screen can be used to watch TV. Games are streamed at 1280 x 720 and at 30fps or 60fps, prioritising … Read more
Matrox has said that it will exhibit at the Digital Signage Summit Europe (23rd – 24th June, Munich). There, the firm will show off its C900 video card and Maevex encoders and decoders.
LG Display has said that it will build an OLED display module assembly plant in Vietnam. The plant, in Hai Phong, will begin production in the second half of 2017. Although LGD did not share the scale of the investment, Vietnamese authorities gave the figure as $1.5 billion. Construction will begin in May. LG Display … Read more
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