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We have covered Aptovision’s BlueRiver NT video transport system briefly before (VoIP from Aurora Multimedia and AptoVision), but Insight Media has written about the technology in much more detail recently. BlueRiver is an FPGA-based video-over-IP product. It uses a standard ethernet infrastructure and equipment to transport AV, control, USB and ethernet signals from source to … Read more
SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced today that the leading German and Austrian pay TV-provider Sky Deutschland has secured additional capacity for Ultra HD broadcasts on ASTRA at 19.2 degrees East. Ultra HD delivers four times the resolution of today’s HD TV, providing more dramatic action for sporting events and … Read more
Apple’s smartphone payment system – Apple Pay – was quietly launched in the UK in mid-July. Is it just a matter of time before we are all using smartphones as a digital wallet? Not according to a Harris poll in the USA. Interest in mobile transactions – including Apple Pay and using mobile apps to … Read more
KOE has developed a new 7″ display module, with ‘the latest generation’ of IPS technology. The TX18D205VM0BAA, part of KOE’s Rugged+ line, is said to feature a wider operating temperature range and improved optical performance. The panel’s operating temperature has been extended, from -30° – +80° to -40° – +85°. Storage temperature will reach up … Read more
Six new LCD broadcast monitors, for use in the studio or the field, have been released by JVC Professional. The ProHD DT-X92 series include a dual-9″ display, with waveform and vector scope functionality, and sizes up to 23.8″. The DT-X92HX2 is JVC’s dual-9″-display model. The unit features an embedded audio meter; scale markers; SDI time … Read more
BenQ Middle East and Turkey has launched a new offer, of a three-year warranty on its LCD monitors in the UAE. The offer includes free pick-up, repair and delivery, and covers all retailers, resellers, distributors and online stores.
Tsinghua Unigroup of China is reported to be preparing a $23 billion bid for Micron Technology which, if successful, would be the largest Chinese takeover of a US company. Tsinghua is China’s largest state-owned chip design company and is believed to have been searching for a suitable takeover target in the US for some time. … Read more
Intel Corporation recorded a second quarter net profit of $2.7 billion on turnover of $13.2 billion, which compares with a net profit in Q2 of the previous year of $2.8 billion on turnover of $13.8 billion. In the first six months of the year, Intel’s net profit was broadly flat year on year at $4.7 … Read more
Huawei Technologies has secured approval from the Indian government to manufacture mobile phones in India, one of the world’s largest markets for mobile phones. The Chinese company first applied for a manufacturing licence 19 months ago but approval from India’s Ministry of Home Affairs has been slow because of wrangling over national security concerns.
According to reports, Toshiba Corp’s CEO and other board members are to resign over the accounting irregularities which are currently under investigation. CEO Hisao Tanaka and vice chairman Norio Sasaki are two of the executives who have so far been named. Sources suggest that investigators are exploring the role that top officials may have played … Read more
LG Electronics ‘may’ close down its Shanghai-based production facilities (called LGESH), according to Korean media. Declining profits and increased labour costs in China are behind the move, said the source. LG set up the facility with the Chinese government, in a 70%/30% split. Digital AV products and, latterly, surveillance cameras are produced there.
Media reports from Taiwan claim that BOE will become the world’s third-largest panel maker, in terms of LCD capacity, by 2018. The prediction will come into effect when BOE’s G10.5 facility comes online in three years’ time. 61″, 65″, 70″ and 75″ panels will be produced there. BOE’s capacity would fall behind those of Samsung … Read more
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