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LG has been recognised with the 2015 Gold Tier Award from the USA’s Environment Protection Agency. The Gold Tier is the EPA’s top-level of recognition in its Sustainable Materials Management Challenge. The award was granted to recognise LG’s continued increase in the amount of used electronics collected for reuse and recycling. In 2015, LG collected … Read more
Primeview worked with the HDBaseT Alliance, launching a new ‘super-narrow bezel’ (3.5mm) LCD video wall display. This 49″ screen, the PRV49SNGHDBT, uses an IPS panel (1920 x 1080) and is rated for 24/7 operation. It features HDBaseT transmitters and receivers. In addition, Primeview was showing off a 60Hz upgrade to its existing UltraHD LCD line-up, … Read more
Samsung has shown off several monitors at its 2016 European Forum in Monaco. Newest among them were the CF591 and CF390, which were announced at CES (Samsung Uses LED in Modular TV Concept); they are curved and flicker-free models for gamers, with AMD’s Freesync technology. For business use, Samsung showed the UE850, which was first … Read more
Garmin has introduced a new range of marine screens with IPS panels and at least 1920 x 1080 resolution. The large-format units feature multi-touch control and new processors, for the fastest-ever chart drawing in a Garmin multi-function display (MFD). The GPSMAP 8400/8600 series consists of three models: GPSMAP 8×17 (17″) and 8×24 (24″) (1920 x … Read more
The ‘TV-centric living room’ is in decline, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau UK, due to the rise of internet-connected devices. In a new study (http://tinyurl.com/j35jfny), the IAB found that only 50% of UK online adults describe the TV as the focal point of their living room. 70% say that they normally use a connected … Read more
German distributor Lang is very active in the rental and staging segment of the pro-AV market, and was celebrating a new partnership with Epson at the show. The firm is now stocking the EB-1505U, a 3LCD laser-phosphor projector. A special feature with the projector, we were told, is that it emits lower levels of ultra-violet … Read more
Wayne Park has been appointed as LG CEO for Germany and the European market. Youngwoong Lee, who was managing the German branch, will return to Korea.
Google is continuing to work on virtual reality, undeterred by the withdrawal of its Google Glass product. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is developing an all-in-one headset that will operate without a link to any external device. “A person familiar with the matter” said that the new device will feature a screen, … Read more
A new LTE modem chip from Qualcomm enables much faster internet speeds for smartphones: fast enough that a 100GB UltraHD film could be downloaded in less than 15 minutes (network-dependent). The Snapdragon X16 enables download speeds of up to 100Gbps; it is Qualcomm’s sixth-generation LTE chip, based on a 14nm FinFET process.
Shin-Tson Wu, Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida – College of Optics and Photonics, USA together with support from Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute in Xi’an, China, and DIC Corporation, Japan has developed several new LCD mixtures aiming at automotive LCD applications. These applications are extending from head up displays and … Read more
Samsung Electronics in the UK held a pre-ISE press briefing. The meeting was at the top of the “Gherkin”, an unusual, but interesting place for this kind of event. Phil Gaut, Director of Displays in the UK, and a long-standing member of staff in that position, with five years now, opened up the meeting. Samsung’s … Read more
Planar, a Leyard company and global leader in display and digital signage technology, today announced it will feature its broadest range of displays to date at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2016, including next-generation LED and LCD video wall technology, a newly-launched transparent OLED display and cutting-edge 4K LCD displays. The innovations featured at ISE 2016 … Read more
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