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Samsung Electronics unveiled a new Samsung Smart TV user experience with the refreshed ‘Smart Hub’ user interface and new Samsung Smart Control remote. These Smart TV enhancements provide consumers with easy access to all their favorite content, all in one place and with a single remote control. “The world of TV is constantly changing, with … Read more
Lenovo today unveiled its newly expanded and highly innovative X1 portfolio. Designed for forward thinkers, the series includes new additions such as the brilliantly adaptable ThinkPad X1 Tablet with its unique modular design; the immersive ThinkPad X1 Yoga with world’s first OLED display; and the award-winning ThinkPad X1 Carbon is even thinner and lighter, strengthening … Read more
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) says it has showed a system to lower the requirements of virtual reality processing. Using the ‘foveated rendering’ technique, VR performance can be between two and four times higher than is possible today, said SMI OEM director Christian Villwock. Using foveated rendering, resolution of an image can be made highest where the … Read more
Acer is never an official part of CES. Instead, the company just ‘happens’ to have a suite in a hotel somewhere in Las Vegas in early January! Isn’t it weird how these coincidences just pile up? The first product that we got updates on was the Liquid Jade Primo, which was introduced as a prototype … Read more
We have covered Bristol-based Ultrahaptics before, in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 23). The company has just completed a Series A funding round, which raised £10.1 million ($14.6 million), and says that its technology will be rolled out in products starting this year. ‘Haptics’, in the CE space, commonly refers to touch feedback that … Read more
A high-resolution 7″ field monitor has been released by Video Devices, as the largest model in the company’s PIX-E series. Although its own display resolution is 1920 x 1200, the PIX-E7 can be used to record content at resolutions up to DCI-4k, at 30fps, or 1920 x 1080 at 120fps. Like the PIX-E5 and PIX-E5H, … Read more
Pico projector unit sales are expected to have climbed 50% YoY in 2015, according to a forecast by PMA Research. During Q1-Q3’15, global pico and personal projector sales rose 49% YoY. Revenues were also up, rising 40%. Demand drivers included: new chipsets (1080p DLP and 720p DLP, LCoS and MOEMs); the return of laser-based offerings; … Read more
We met up with Lenovo twice at the show – once during the CES Unveiled event before the show started and also at the Aquaknox restaurant in the Venetian that the firm had rented for the duration of the show. One of the highlights of the CES Unveiled event was the first showing of a … Read more
William Cho, president and CEO of LG USA, opened the company’s press conference on the 5th January – traditionally the first display-related presentation of the show. He described LG’s theme this year (‘Innovation for a Better Life’), before handing over to Skott Ahn, president and CTO of LG. Ahn discussed LG’s “two growth engines”: automotive … Read more
Apple has raised the price of its iPhone in Germany. The company, along with Samsung and other smartphone makers, agreed to pay a fee of €5-€7 for each phone or tablet imported to the country in December; this money will be distributed to content producers. The agreement is based on a 1965 German law, which … Read more
Acer has announced that Bahamas Telecommunications and Ecuador’s Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones will now sell its smartphones and wearables in Latin America.
Matt McRae, CTO of Vizio, has predicted that 2016 will be a bigger year for UltraHD content than any previous one. There has been a “tenfold” increase in the amount of programming available in the last 18 months, and another tenfold increase is predicted over the next 12.
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