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Fonix LED was drafted in to supply all AV requirements for the Americas Cup World Series’ opening event, in Portsmouth, UK, in late July. Fonix supplied LED displays for the fan zone and waterfront stage. Production and content control was handled by products from Blackmagic, including mixers and converters.
A product announcement by French firm Archos has provided a hint at when Windows 10 Mobile might be available. Archos will launch the 50 Cesium and 50e Helium smartphones this year, in November. Although identical in terms of hardware, the phones are differentiated by their operating systems: the Cesium runs Windows 10 (although we must … Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) is reported to have won a lawsuit involving one of its former R&D executives, which claimed that the employee had passed details of TSMC’s 28-nanometer process technology to Samsung. Liang Mong-song had appealed successfully against an earlier ruling which prevented him from accepting a job at Samsung, claiming it violated his … Read more
Epson’s Home Cinema 1040 and 1440 are bright 3LCD projectors with a wide aspect ratio. Both units have 1920 x 1200 (16:10) resolution, and can display 10-bit colour. The Home Cinema 1440 adds Faroudja DCDi video enhancement technology, which enhances content without introducing artefacts. HDMI (x2), VGA, composite and USB ports are featured on both … Read more
LG will show off four OLED TVs at IFA 2015 in Berlin next month. They will be the flat 65″ and 55″ EF9500 (recently released in Korea and announced for a launch in the USA – see LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 34) and 55″ EG9200 – all of which will have UltraHD … Read more
Hon Hai Precision has signed a joint venture with Cima NanoTech, a US manufacturer of transparent conductive film solutions, to provide projective capacitive solutions for large format, 40″ to 100″, touch screens. The joint venture will be known as Cima Touch and will manufacture and sell Sante ProTouch modules, which the companies say are a … Read more
Litemax Electronics, a Taiwanese LCD module manufacturer, is to acquire Wynmax, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of industrial computing devices, for NT$320 million ($9.8 million). Litemax will fund the acquisition through a three year unsecured convertible bond issue.
The latest entry into the automotive aftermarket head up display (HUD) field comes from Exploride, an Indian/MIT startup company. It has developed a HUD based on a transparent display that pretty much mirrors all the functionalities of today’s HUD devices. The device connects with the driver’s smartphone via Bluetooth to provide connectivity via phone calls … Read more
According to a new mobile phone forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments are expected to grow 10.4% in 2015 to 1.44 billion units. This is lower than IDC’s previous smartphone forecast of 11.3% year-over-year growth in 2015. IDC expects to see a noticeable slowdown in smartphone shipments … Read more
The topic of Better Pixels, not more pixels has been a hot topic recently. “Better Pixels” includes several things such as wide color gamut (WCG), high dynamic range (HDR), high frame rate (HFR), etc. This DD is going to focus on the wide color gamut aspect of better pixels. BT Media and Broadcast has posted … Read more
Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the CJ12ex4.3B portable 4K 2/3-inch broadcast lens, the world’s first* 4K wide-angle lens for use with 4K broadcast cameras featuring 2/3-inch sensors. This will be the first in a new line of 4K broadcast lenses intended to support a range of 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD) … Read more
Today’s consumer electronics products rely on a wide range of technologies and engineering disciplines. However, the mechanical and materials engineering used in today’s state of the art CE products often go on unrecognized. As a recent purchaser of a smartwatch (an Android Wear unit as I am not a member of the Apple fraternity), I … Read more
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