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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today announced the studio’s first releases in the next-generation 4K Ultra HD™ Disc format, which will arrive in early 2016. “By some estimates, consumers will own over 100 million Ultra HD television sets by 2019. Sony Pictures’ 4K Ultra HD Discs will deliver consumers the ultimate home theater experience, with … Read more
Vuzix has secured eight CES Innovation Awards, for products that will be on show at CES 2016 this January. A new product, the iWear Wireless Video Headphones, was named ‘Best of Innovations Awards Honoree’ in the Gaming and Virtual Reality category. Other winners included the Vidwear B3000 and M3000 Smart Glasses, both of which took … Read more
Motive/Granite Broadcasting’s Tablet TV LLC is now taking pre-orders for its TabletTVPlus product in the USA. The device can be used to watch live broadcast TV on a tablet, and access the internet. The TabletTVPlus app will be available to download on Apple’s App Store on the 15th November. An Android launch will follow in … Read more
AV Stumpfl supplied one of its curved projection screens – 4m x 30m – for use at Forbes’ international conference. Held in Athens, the event was attended by more than 500 people. Five of Barco’s HDX-W20 projectors were used in the presentations, their output edge-blended to fit the screen. The screen was installed by 360 … Read more
GPU shipments rose 9% from the last quarter in Q3’15, says Jon Peddie Research, although sales fell 19% compared to last year. Desktop shipments were down 13%, and notebooks down 22%. Despite the annual decline, JPR writes that the quarterly uptick represents a global increase in consumer confidence. Q3 is, on average, up from Q2. … Read more
HDTV Supply has created a converter that changes HDCP 2.2 signals into HDCP 1.4. Each new revision of HDCP requires new hardware, so this converter enables HDCP 2.2 sources to be shown on an HDCP 1.4-compliant display. The Wolfpack converter sits between an HDCP 2.2 UltraHD source and HDCP 1.4 display. Protected content can then … Read more
Asbis is now distributing Apple’s new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus models in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Ukraine.
According to Chinese media, Foxconn plans to become a display maker itself in the future, rather than a pure OEM. The manufacturer has apparently invested CNY28 billion ($4.4 billion) in a G6 LTPS fab in China’s Zhengzhou. Production will begin in 2017, and mass production in 2018. Around 20,000 substrates would be produced at the … Read more
Asus has predicted 10% QoQ sales growth in Q4, due to recovering demand. CFO Nick Wu told an inventors’ conference that Q4 PC shipments are expected to reach 5.8 million, up from 5.3 million in Q3. Mobile product shipments will rise to 9 million units, from 7.1 million, and smartphones to 7 million from 5.5 … Read more
Quanta has reported consolidated revenues of NT$90 billion ($2.75 billion) in October, down 11.3% MoM but up 9.6% YoY. The company has made sales of NT$822 billion ($25 billion) in the January-October period, up 8.6% compared to last year. Quanta shipped 3.3 million notebooks in October, down 1 million units from September; this was the … Read more
Best Buy has revealed its Black Friday deals, which include everything from smartphones to UltraHD TVs. ‘Doorbuster’ deals will begin at 5pm on Thanksgiving Day itself. Several UltraHD TVs will be on sale. Two of these will be from Samsung, the 65″ JS8500 ($2,000, down from $2,500) and 60″ JU6390 ($800, down from $1,500). A … Read more
Canal+ Group had 15.4 million subscribers in the first nine months of 2015, an increase of 619,000 compared to the same period last year. The company’s ‘strong’ performance in Vietnam and Africa, and of the Canalplay streaming service in France, helped to boost the result.
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