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Futaba has unveiled new flexible PMOLED panels, for small devices such as wearables. The EPW1802AA is a 1.8″ greyscale PMOLED unit, with 160 x 32 resolution. It has 600 cd/m² of brightness, a 10,000:1 contrast ratio and 35ms response time, with an SPI interface. A full-colour unit has also been announced. This is a 1.4″ … Read more
Orange Spain will lower the price of its smart TVs, from the 1st December, in order to compete with rival Telefonica (Vestel Makes Deal for Free TVs with Telefonica) and boost adoption of its bundled services. The company will sell ‘unlocked’ Samsung and LG sets, between 32″ and 43″. Discounts (up to 35%) will be … Read more
Nanotech’s UltraFlix network of UltraHD content is now available on all Samsung, Vizio and 2015 Sony UltraHD TVs in North America.
Taiwan’s Economic Daily News claims that Apple will show new 13″ and 15″ Macbook Air models at WWDC 2016, next summer. The 11″ model will be discontinued, and the new editions will be thinner than any previous generation. They will be released in Q3’16, the source claims. Huawei launched a new flagship smartphone called the … Read more
The Stela PF-55H is a high-brightness 55″ public display from AG Neovo. A full-metal chassis houses the display, featuring a moveable (wheeled) stand and tempered front glass. The MVA panel installed in the unit has a 4,000:1 contrast ratio, and the screen can reach 700 cd/m² of brightness, suiting it for use in bright environments. … Read more
This year, retailers are especially aware of the popularity of large TVs on Black Friday. Both Target and Best Buy have said that their sales mix is shifting towards larger sets. 60″ – 65″ TVs are HHGregg’s fastest-growing sales category, while Sams’s Club has said that it is reducing the floor space dedicated to smaller … Read more
France’s Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) has launched an information campaign on the country’s upcoming digital transition. DTT services will be moved from MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AVC to purely MPEG-4 AVC. The transition will take place on the 6th April 2016.
Atheer, the company pioneering the new AiR™ (Augmented interactive Reality™) computing platform today unveiled AiR Glasses, the world’s most interactive 3D smart glasses and the AiR Enterprise Suite, a cloud-based collaboration and task flow interaction solution for Fortune 1000 companies. Atheer AiR Glasses allow wearers to see critical work information right in their field-of-view and … Read more
Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) continue to be hot topics in the technology industry. While VR continues to make waves in the press, AR will prove to be the bigger market in time, projected to reach approximately US$100 billion in total market worth by 2020, according to the latest market study by ABI … Read more
This week’s issue got me thinking about developments in TV. I was particularly interested in the Sky announcement and I confess that is partly because I am a customer of Sky. Sky is incredibly good at getting UK (and increasingly German and Italian consumers) to dig deep for their TV services. Although I pay less … Read more
UniPixel, Inc., a provider of Performance Engineered Films™ to the touchscreen and flexible electronics markets, announced today the receipt of an initial mass production order from a leading PC manufacturing company based in Japan for a 10-inch tablet product. UniPixel expects the initial delivery of XTouch sensors to this new customer to occur in the … Read more
Fujitsu’s new UK sales director has said that the company needs to be “more focused” with its distribution strategy. Kevin Matthews said that Fujitsu currently has five distributors in the UK (Ingram Micro, Tech Data, Exertis, Arrows and Entatech), and may need to evaluate the lineup. He added, “[I]t’s too early to say whether we … Read more
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