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London’s Excel hosts PLASA every year, a show dedicated to the UK professional light and sound markets. Video, however, is a growing presence at the event, especially with the rise of LED displays for rental and staging. Being focused on the exhibition market, PLASA is full of special effects – this year, artifical smoke was … Read more
Thanks in no small part to the opening of a European base in 2013, Absen LED panels are to be found in an ever increasing number of high footfall places. The latest venues to benefit from Absen’s technology are three major Norwegian airports. Dubbed by Absen European Managing Director Ruben Rengel as “one of the … Read more
Absen’s LED panels have seen an investment by Clear Channel Norway, which has installed them in three separate airports across the country: Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim. The Stavanger installation is particularly noteworthy, consisting of a 57m² display using Absen’s AI03 (3.9mm pixel pitch) product. The installations in Bergen and Trondheim are 20m² and 7m², respectively.
Paul PengThere have been changes at the top level of AUO. Chairman Paul Peng is to resign from his concurrent position as president of the company, and assume the role of CEO. Michael Tsai will become AUO’s new president and COO. Additionally, Andy Yang will move from his current role as CFO and become chief … Read more
MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVIS), a leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display technology, today announced that its PicoP® display technology is at the heart of the projected display in Sharp’s new RoBoHoN robot with integrated smartphone functionality. This innovative product was launched today at CEATEC Japan 2015. MicroVision has been collaborating with Sharp, a Fortune Global … Read more
IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced the agenda for the company’s upcoming Touch Gesture Motion and Emerging Display Technologies 2015 conference, to be held on November 12 – 13, 2015 at the San Jose Marriot in San Jose, California. The conference agenda covers traditional and emerging … Read more
Two wireless charging standards are competing for market share as the next generation of resonant wireless technologies is nearing readiness. ABI Research forecasts that through 2020, 713 million Qi and 213 million Powermat/Rezence chargers will ship, along with a small number of proprietary technologies. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), with its Qi standard, leads shipments … Read more
ABI Research expects the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi specification to remain dominant through 2020. ABI expects 713 million Qi chargers to be shipped by the end of 2020, compared to 213 million Powermat/Rezence chargers (controlled by the Alliance for Wireless Power – A4WP). Qi is an inductive power standard, capable of transferring up to 15W … Read more
St Laurent, Quebec, Canada, October 6th, 2015 – AptoVision, a pioneer of game-changing AV chipset technology and winner of the 2014 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ Jury’s Favourite prize, today announced that its BlueRiver NT chipset has won the Video Distribution Product of the Year award at the prestigious AV Awards 2015 event hosted by AV … Read more
Microsoft used an event in the USA to announce its first-ever laptop, which appears to have been well-received by market watchers. We have covered the product, as well as Microsoft’s other announcements, in more detail in ‘Microsoft Announces New Phone, Band, Tablet and Laptop in New York‘, but present a summary here. Called ‘the first-ever … Read more
Dolby Vision, Dolby’s high-end HDR format, has been installed in TV sets for the first time, thanks to Vizio (we saw these TVs in April: Vizio to Bring Dolby Vision to Home Theatre). We have written in more detail about the TVs here, which our paid subscribers can access. The new 64.5″ (RS65-B2) and 120″ … Read more
Mediatek has announced net sales of NT$20 billion ($617.6 million) in September, and NT$151 billion ($4.6 billion) for the January-September period. September sales are up 8% from 2014’s NT$18.5 billion ($571.4 million), but the January-September sales are down 3.85% from NT$157.6 billion ($4.8 billion).
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