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EU Dismisses Innolux’s Appeal in Cartel Case

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed an appeal from Innolux against the $288 million fine imposed on the company for taking part in the LCD price fixing scandal. Innolux was originally fined $300 million but this was reduced to $288 million in February 2014 by the General Court. The fine took into account … Read more

Gaming Features Abound on Asus’ MG278Q

The MG278Q is a 27″ LCD monitor for gamers, produced by Asus. As well as a fast (1ms) response time and refresh rate (144Hz), the display uses AMD’s Freesync anti-tearing technology. To care for users during extended use, the MG278Q features a low blue light mode and flicker-free backlight. The monitor is capable of 120° … Read more

Korean Makers Slash TV Prices

Samsung is cutting the prices of its newest TVs – by up to thousands of dollars, in some cases. Shortly after the news was shared, LG responded with cuts of its own, to its 2015 OLED models. Several of Samsung’s UltraHD TVs produced this year use ‘nanocrystals’ (quantum dots). These are the company’s ‘SUHD’ TVs, … Read more

Three 60Hz UltraHD Displays, Powered by Skylake?

PC World claims that Intel will release the first of its Skylake chips in early September. According to the rumours, these chips will feature fixed-function support for UltraHD video rendering in hardware, as well as support for the newest APIs such as DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4. They are said to run at 1,152 GFLOPS; … Read more

Polyera Announces Flexible Watch for 2016

Polyera 1 08 2015

While we are all talking about the smartwatch and especially the latest model from Apple, Polyera has announced a watch with a flexible display for release in 2016. In this case, not only is the display a flexible AMOLED display as used in some devices already, but the whole watch is basically a flexible wristband. … Read more

OASIS aims to develop Standards for the use of Augmented Reality

The OASIS group has stated that it is working on standards for using augmented reality content in information products. OASIS is a non-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. The member list reads like a phone list of top technology companies, even though display companies … Read more

Lenovo UK Names New Channel Head

Andy Bass Lenovo

Lenovo has hired Andy Bass as the company’s new director of channel and SMB in the UK and Ireland. Bass is set to take over the role from 1st September, having spent the last 10 months at CMS Distribution. He will replace Darren Phelps, who left Lenovo earlier this year (Lenovo Parts Company with UK … Read more

IHS Focuses on HD at FPD Conference

IHS will hold its annual US FPD conference at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, California on 14th and 15th September this year. This year’s event will focus on the latest trends in high-definition technology. As well as presentations on topics ranging from mobile displays to digital signage, participants will include representatives from companies … Read more

IHS US FPD 2015 Conference to Focus on HD Technologies

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced the preliminary agenda for the company’s upcoming US FPD 2015 conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California from September 14 – 15, 2015. Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the conference will showcase flat panel display (FPD) technologies … Read more

Christie Claims First UST Laser Projector

Christie has introduced its ‘Captiva’ series – apparently the world’s first solid-state projectors with an ultra-short throw ratio and more than 3,000 lumens of brightness. First seen at Infocomm this year, the DHD400S (1920 x 1080) and DUW3505 (1920 x 720) are installation projectors, for medium and large venues. Because they use a laser-phosphor light … Read more

Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales Recorded Slowest Growth Rate Since 2013

Gartner, Inc. said worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015. Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 330 million units, an increase of 13.5 percent over the same period in 2014 (see Table 1). “While demand for lower-cost 3G and 4G smartphones continued to drive … Read more