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BLU Shipments Fall at Coretronic

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

SFR and Nagra Launch UltraHD in France

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.

Time Warner Cable Begins IPTV Trial

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

RIP CEA! Long Live CTA!

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

Adaptor Fools a Mac to Work Headlessly

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

Lumii Wins Grant for Light Field Technology

Lumii Inc. (http://www.lumiidisplay.com/), a start-up spin-out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was one of 26 winners of seed money from the MassChallenge (http://masschallenge.org/). The MassChallenge organization’s goal is to encourage startups and innovation, and not just startups in Massachusetts. They accept applications from anywhere in the world and have special programs for the … Read more

TAG Heuer Presents the “TAG Heuer Connected” Watch

Today, TAG Heuer, Intel Corporation and Google unveiled a connected watch, designed by Luxury Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer, engineered with Intel technology and benefiting from everything the Android Wear universe has to offer. The TAG Heuer Connected Watch with Intel Inside was revealed at a press conference at the symbolic LVMH Tower hosted by Jean-Claude … Read more

LG OLED Named ‘Best TV Of The Year’ By USA TODAY’s Reviewed.com For Second Consecutive Year

Reviewed.com, a division of USA TODAY, has honored LG Electronics USA with seven of its “2015 Best of the Year Awards,” a prestigious recognition based on extensive lab-tested reviews and expert technical analysis. LG products across home entertainment and home appliance categories received top accolades, including LG’s 65EF9500 flat OLED 4K TV, which earned the … Read more