Canon Shows 4k Workflow
Canon (11.E50) will show its end-to-end professional UltraHD workflow at IBC 2015. It will be the first time that the company shows the entire product range in Europe – including references displays, lenses and sensors.
Acer Announces Full 2015 Windows-Powered Product Lineup Ready for Windows 10
Acer announces that its full 2015 Windows-powered product lineup and currently-shipping Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 portfolio will support the free Windows 10 upgrade1 when it becomes available on July 29, 2015. “Acer’s diverse range of products designed for Windows 10 will be able to deliver its value to our customers across multiple device form … Read more
BOE Reaches Out to Korea for OLED JV
Sources have told the Korea Times that BOE has proposed the establishment of an OLED joint venture with LG Display and Samsung Display. One source said that “an affiliate” of BOE had reached out to “several Korean parts suppliers” in June, to propose a joint venture being set up in China. To tempt its proposed … Read more
Continental Claims OLED Mirrors Are Safer and Fuel-Efficient
Continental has demonstrated how cameras and screens can be used to replace a car’s exterior and interior mirrors. Three cameras were installed in a test vehicle in the USA, as well as two 12.3″ (1920 x 1080) OLED displays in place of a rear-view mirror; these showed the sides and rear of the vehicle. Continental … Read more
Interactivity Everywhere – Samsung’s Office of 2025
Samsung, in its ‘Smart Futures’ report, claims that companies that fail to adopt new, smart technologies may not be around in 10 years’ time. Samsung’s report was produced in partnership with The Future Laboratory, MIT, Google and IBM. It details Samsung’s view of ‘the office of the future’. The company predicts that interactive smart surfaces … Read more
Commodore Revived for 21st Century
For those that grew up tapping away on the giant keyboard of a Commodore 64, this news might be a welcome surprise. The brand is being resurrected – as a smartphone. Sharing its name with Commodore’s other iconic PC, the Commodore PET is being created by a pair of Italian developers. According to Wired, Massimo … Read more
Asus Expects Sales to Fall
Asus CEO Jerry Shen has said that the company expects to ship between 7 million and 9 million tablets this year – down as much as 25.5% from 2014’s 9.4 million. At the end of June, the company had sold 2.7 million tablets this year: down 34.1% YoY. Shen said that sales are expected to … Read more
Asustek Expects to Break-Even on Tablets
Asustek Computer said it expects its tablet business to break even this year, after reporting losses for its tablet operations in 2014 and the first half of this year. The company has taken measures to adjust its supply chain and reduce the number of models produced to bring down total operating costs. Asustek’s tablet shipments … Read more
China to Overtake Korean LCD Capacity
Sources in Asia say that Chinese makers’ LCD capacity will pass Koreans’ in 2016, due to new and expanded G8 production. Meanwhile, Korean companies are increasingly looking to AMOLED. The sources said that Samsung Display can currently produce 30,000 substrates a month at its A3 line, and plans to add more production lines. We have … Read more
Extreme Vis-Sim: Pluto
As anyone with any connection to the Internet knows (i.e. all DD readers), the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to dwarf planet Pluto at 7:50AM EDT (11:50 Universal Time, as used by astronomers) on July 14th. The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) carried it live on its giant IMAX screen and I … Read more
TriDef SmartCam is a Clever Virtual Green Screen
DDD, a company that has been involved with stereoscopic 3D for over 20 years, has released a new product called TriDef SmartCam. It is essentially a virtual green screen application that allows you to remove the background and insert any background you want (like with a real green screen application). However, the SmartCam does this … Read more
University of California, Riverside outfits new Student Recreation Center with giant LCD video display from Barco
Visualization pioneer Barco provided the optimum large-canvas multimedia display solution for the University of California, Riverside to broadcast student recreation activities and live sports in its new activity center: a 27’ x 15’ Barco OVD/KVD series LCD display wall, the industry’s only worry-free video wall for critical applications. Serving as the nerve center for its … Read more
