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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.
I’m finalising this issue as we close in on the New Year celebrations. After about a week of family visits and entertaining – I think I’m looking forward to some peace and quiet, although that won’t last long as I fly to CES this weekend and then the year starts with a vengeance. We have … Read more
Vuzix® Corporation , (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, is pleased to announce that the company has formed a partnership with Atheer, a pioneer of AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality) computing. The Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses now supports Atheer’s AiR Suite … Read more
To coincide with the availability of Ultra HD Blu-ray™ players in the marketplace in early 2016, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be offering four titles on Ultra HD Blu-ray at initial launch showcasing 4K Ultra HD resolution with High Dynamic Range (HDR), offering consumers a sharper, brighter and more colorful home entertainment viewing experience than … Read more
Reports from Taiwan have said that AUO’s 8.5G fab in Houli, is due to add around 25K to 30K substrates per month from the first quarter of 2016 – representing around a 5% boost in the firm’s overall capacity. AUO continues to push large panels into digital signage and meeting room displays.
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