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Japan Display – the joint small panel venture between Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – has announced that it will begin to mass produce OLED panels in 2018. JDI CEO Mitsuru Homma. Image: ReutersThe company will take advantage of its “advanced thin-film transistor technology”, JDI research centre chief Akio Takimoto told reporters, as it aims to … Read more
UK-based touch specialist, Zytronic has invested £1 million ($1.5 million) to raise its manufacturing capacity, with a focus on ultra large format touch senses for digital signage, tablet surfaces and similar applications. A 25% increase in the total ISO 5 (Class 100) cleanroom area, at Zytronic’s Newcastle (UK) site, was the largest investment. The expansion … Read more
Wearable glass type devices first appeared in the market several years ago. In a common configuration, the device is a monocle that is attached to one side of the frame of user worn glasses. As an augmented reality device, the system overlays a variety of information onto the user’s view of the real world. A … Read more
Microsoft announced their Room2Room project that ups the typical Skype call to a full blown projection experience in a room. As the successor to an earlier project called RoomAlive, it uses the Kinect system in combination with a projector to bring the other person to life in the room. If anyone thinks “HoloDeck” right now, … Read more
It has been confirmed that the new SkyQ UltraHD STB will be based around MediaHighway middleware from Cisco and will include a MaxLinear MxL5x2 satellite receiver and EN5520 Channel Stacking IC. The receiver can tune and demodulate up to 12 satellite channels for recording and in-home distribution. The EN5520 will be used in systems for … Read more
In the flood of news at CES it looks as though the news that Arris has completed its acquisition of STB maker Pace of the UK for £1.4 billion slipped by us. Arris acquired Pace with a combination of stock and cash. The newly combined company is incorporated in the U.K., with operational and worldwide … Read more
NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today that Richard Ventura, Vice President of Business Development and Solutions, is the newly appointed Vice Chairman of the Digital Signage Federation’s (DSF) Executive Committee. As Vice Chairman of the DSF Board of Directors, Ventura provides strategic direction for … Read more
The Diplomatic Council, a United Nations accredited think tank, will name the British corporation V-Nova ( www.v-nova.com), a leading provider of video compression solutions, as its first “DC Global Media Innovator”. Once a year, the Diplomatic Council gives exclusive credit to a media, technology and platform convergence company that has had the biggest impact on … Read more
Registration is open for CES AsiaTM 2016 which runs May 11-13, 2016 in Shanghai, China and will occupy expanded space in the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre (SNIEC). Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™ – formerly the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® – and co-produced by Intex Shanghai. “On the heels of another … Read more
NEC Display Solutions Europe (NEC) has announced a new range of fine pitch LED products that will be showcased at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2016. The new LED LiFT (LED intelligent Front Technology) range is the latest development following the partnership between NEC and S[quadrat], the LED manufacturer and media system integration specialist. The partnership … Read more
Power Technology, a US-based laser company, has developed multi-projector laser light source. Unlike a traditional light source used in a single projector, the Illumina Light Farm can deliver a source of light to multiple projectors using fibre optics. Existing projectors can be retrofitted to work with the ILF, meaning that lamp-based models are able to … Read more
Plessey, Anvil Semiconductors and the University of Cambridge said that they are working together to fabricate high efficiency LEDs in cubic GaN grown on Anvil’s 3C-SiC / Si substrates. The group said that Cubic GaN has the potential to overcome the problems caused in conventional LEDs by the strong internal electric fields which impair carrier … Read more
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