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The US Coast Guard has chosen to purchase flat panel displays from Daisy Data Displays, because of their compatibility with night-vision goggles. The displays, which have a night-vision imaging system, will be used in the C-130H Lockheed aircraft.
Tech Data is now a B2B distributor for Garmin’s wearable products in the UK.
The Snapdragon 820 processor has been unveiled by Qualcomm in New York, with upgrades to deliver longer battery life, faster performance and more efficient operation than previous generations. It should also be able to support external wireless displays. Graphics capabilities have been boosted, with support for Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. New technologies include Qualcomm Trupallette … Read more
Coretronic has said that it shipped 5.6 million backlight units (BLUs) in October: an 11% MoM fall. From January to October, the company shipped 61.6 million units, a 21% fall. Coretronic expects Q4 shipments to fall between 10% and 15% MoM. The company also announced that it shipped 101,300 DLP projectors in October, down 19% … Read more
Asus has said that it shipped 5.5 million smartphones in Q3, and expects this to rise to 7 million units in Q4. Such a result would put annual shipments at 20 million units. Asus also said that it shipped 4.8 million notebooks, following 9.3 million units shipped in Q1 and Q2. 5% – 10% QoQ … Read more
AUO estimates that UltraHD TV sales have reached around 16 million units so far this year, and will end 2015 at 24 million sets due to end-of-year demand in the USA and Europe. More than 30% of AUO’s UltraHD TV panel shipments this year have been used in 50″+ sets, expected to rise to 40% … Read more
Korea’s MT News claims that LG Display is about to finalise talks with Xiaomi, to supply the Chinese company with OLED displays. LGD will begin to supply displays in Q2’16, says the source. It is part of a move by LGD to become less reliant on LG Electronics for orders.
French pay-TV operator SFR has launched a new UltraHD service, with Nagra. ‘La Box Fibre Zive de SFR’ uses Nagra’s content protection system on its multimedia home gateway, and Medialive multiscreen and video player solution to power its Video Store on-demand catalogue and Sharecast streaming capability.
TiVo has passed 4 million international subscribers to its “traditional” Tivo offering.
Time Warner Cable has begun a Roku trial in New York – its first IP-only video trial. Participants will be able to access TWC’s video service, through its own network, using a Roku Streaming Player rather than leasing a traditional STB. The trial is open to TWC internet customers living in NYC, New Jersey and … Read more
The biggest news at CES Unveiled in New York was the new name the CEA is using from now on. Gone is the ‘Consumer Electronic Association’ with the new name being CTA (Consumer Technology Association), nevertheless the CES event will remain the CES. It looks as though the CEA/CTA did not want to mess with … Read more
An interesting product, aimed at users of ‘headless’ Mac systems, has been released by US-based Newertech. The HDMI Headless Video Accelerator plugs into a Mac Mini’s HDMI port to fool the computer into thinking that a display is attached – activating the GPU. The Mac Mini is often used as headless networking, storage, production studio … Read more
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