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CCW is now NAB Show New York

The CCW (Content and Communications World) in New York has adopted a new name and is now called NAB Show New York. It still contains the SatCon conference and adds InfoComm Connections as a sub-show to its offering. This year, the addition of InfoComm did not result in a different focus of the conference or … Read more

Display Gadgets at CES Unveiled

My colleague Norbert Hildebrand has already written about CES Unveiled (Display Gadgets at CES Unveiled) and I won’t repeat his coverage. I do want to fill in two gaps where he missed items of interest. IonVR showed their smartphone-based VR display at CES Unveiled. Fundamentally, it was similar to the cardboard one from Google and … Read more

Canon 4K Projector Demoed at CCW

At CCW this week (to be known in the future as NAB Show – New York), Canon demonstrated its recently announced 4K LCoS REALiS Projector. The REALiS series of projectors is known as the Power Projector or XEED series in other areas of the world. Meko had previously published an article on this projector (Canon … Read more

TabletTV Plus Launches for Pre-Order

Tablet TV LLC, the joint venture between Motive Television plc and Granite Broadcasting Corporation, announced that it will begin taking pre-orders at 00:01 AM ET, Thursday, November 12th for TabletTV Plus, its inclusive TV Unplugged solution providing viewers with everything that television and the internet have to offer in a single place. Supplies of the … Read more

Royole Makes Bold Claims About Home Theatre Device

Royole Corporation has launched its Royole-X ‘smart mobile theatre device’. Although essentially a VR display with headphones, the Royole-X does have a few big differences. For starters, the headset uses an AMOLED display (we assume that this is actually two displays, but the company did not make it clear. We have questioned this – TA). … Read more

Meet Royole-X, The World’s First Foldable Smart Mobile Theatre

Royole Corporation recently launched its new wearable product Royole-X, the first foldable smart mobile theatre device of its kind. With the highest pixel density displays, stunning noise-cancelling headphones, novel operating system Royole-X OS and a unique foldable product design, Royole-X presents unprecedented theatrical experience that follows you everywhere, whether you are in a college dorm, … Read more

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Unveils First 4K Ultra HD Discs

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 Scores Eight CES Awards

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 Starts TabletTVPlus Pre-Orders

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

Forbes Chooses AV Stumpfl

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

JPR: GPU Rise Marks Returning Confidence

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