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Two new ultra-wide ‘bar-type’ displays have been introduced by BenQ. The 28″ BH280 and 38″ BH380 can be used 24/7, with a 50,000 hour lifetime. Intended use is for areas where space is limited, such as trade show stands or elevators. Portrait and landscape formats are both supported, with a special emphasis on preventing colour … Read more
China’s Actions Semiconductor has launched the GT7 chipset: a 64-bit octa-core device (quad-core CPU and GPU) for OTT set-top boxes (STBs). Featuring HEVC decoding, the GT7 enables UltraHD playback from online sources. RJ45 and USB 3.0 interfaces are also supported. Actions’ own 28nm ATM9009 SoC is used. The chipset supports Android and China’s most prevalent … Read more
At the NEC Showcase last week in New York, I had a chance to talk to Rich McPherson, Senior Product Manager, Projectors, about the latest laser-phosphor projectors from NEC. Most of these projectors were on display and operating. He told me that, in the future, NEC expects that NEC projectors over about 5,000 lumens will … Read more
Home delivery customers of the Sunday New York Times for November 8th got a cardboard VR viewer designed to work with a smartphone. Since Meko had previously published an article for its subscription customers about the announcement of this project (Google & NYT to Give Away VR Viewers), I’ll just discuss how it worked out … Read more
New data from Juniper Research has forecast that Smart Toy sales will reach $2.8 billion in hardware and app content revenues this year, driven by the popularity of the console-connected ‘toys to life’ segment. With smart toys from the likes of Activision and Nintendo already enjoying a successful 2015, the upcoming Black Friday weekend as … Read more
Skylanders toys are imported to a game through an NFC code.‘Smart toys’ will generate revenues of $2.8 billion this year, says Juniper Research – driven by those that connect to mobile apps and game consoles. These products, like Activision’s Skylanders, are emerging as a key market for toy vendors. Smart toys bridge the divide between … Read more
OLED producer Universal Display Corp. (UDC) recorded Q3 net profits of $7 million, up from $4.3 million in the same period last time, on revenue which rose to $39.4 million from $32.9 million. For the nine months, there were losses of $3.4 million, compared with profits of $28.7 a year ago, on sales of $128.7 … Read more
‘To overcome [the] economic recession and improve financial performance’, Chungwha Picture Tubes has asked its employees to take unpaid leave. From now until the end of 2016, an unspecified number of workers will be required to take one or more unpaid days off of work every week. Domestic sources estimate that as many as 3,000 … Read more
Philips has differentiated its newest smartphones – the Sapphire S616 and Sapphire Life V787 – by incorporating its SoftBlue technology in the displays. SoftBlue lowers the blue light output of a screen – by up to 86% on these phones, according to Philips. However, rather than achieving this with a filter (which affects all colours … Read more
French smartphone vendor Wiko has taken on Ingram Micro as a new distribution partner in Italy.
Earlier this year, Planar showed a 55″ transparent OLED display at ISE (Planar Talks 100% UltraHD), although little information was available (it was also shown by others including NEC and Eyevis as well as Samsung’s Display Division – Man. Ed). The company has now announced that there will be four variants, and has released specifications … Read more
TechniSat is now selling an UltraHD STB in Germany, which can decode HEVC signals. The Digit Isio STC+ is also able to play UltraHD content at 60fps through HDMI, and supports HDCP 2.2. It also includes a triple tuner, supporting DVB-T2/C/S/S2 signals. It can be purchased for €320 ex VAT.
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