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Several display-relevant market research reports were published this week, from different sources. All are paid reports. The first report, on Market Research Store (http://tinyurl.com/ocgwgce), deals with the global OLED display and lighting industry. It covers market players and product information, such as pricing, production volumes and supply chain dynamics. Results are split in Asia, North … Read more
There are rumblings of a new DLP projector from BenQ, known as the W3000. According to rumours from Italy, the projector will be launched in late 2015 or early 2016. BenQ’s W6000 We hear that the unit will feature a 1DLP chipset and six-segment colour wheel. Brightness will be 1,800 lumens, with a 1.6x zoom. … Read more
The R9 Fury X GPU from AMD (AMD Has Big Plans for UltraHD) has been officially launched. Competing with high-end Nvidia products, the card features a factory-fitted liquid cooling system and is based on AMD’s new 28nm process. It is being sold for $650. Origin PC has announced that Nvidia‘s G-Sync technology is now available … Read more
HTC has taken on Tech Data Mobile as its official smartphone and accessories distributor in the Czech Republic.
Samsung has launched its first UltraHD monitors with AMD’s Freesync technology: the UE590 units that we saw (briefly) at CES (No More Plasma for Samsung, But LED is New Category). Both new monitors – 23.6″ U24E590D and 28″ U28E590D – feature Freesync technology and have a 60Hz refresh rate. They are, in fact, almost identical … Read more
Four new models, with various wireless presentation options, have been added to Panasonic’s VW350 3LCD projector series. The PT-VW355N, PT-VX425N, PT-VW350 and PT-VX420 are designed to be portable, measuring 352 x 279 x 98mm and weighing 3.3kg or 3.4kg. They feature Focus Assist, Wall Colour Correction and Screen Fitting functions to enable easy set-up. The … Read more
Korea’s D-Daily says that LG will release new QD and OLED TVs in Q3 this year. The QD models, to be released in September, are expected to be about 20% cheaper than the OLED TVs.
Cree has announced a restructuring of its LED business in order to cut excess capacity and overhead costs. The company also reduced its fiscal fourth quarter revenue forecast to $375 million, from its earlier projection of $420 million to $440 million. The company said that recent LED market trends resulted in higher LED average selling … Read more
The North America subscription video on demand (SVOD) market is ‘far from mature’ – at least, according to new figures from Digital TV Research. North America had 50.6 million SVOD homes (excluding sports) at the end of last year. The figure represents 38.8% TV household penetration, and 48.1% fixed line broadband household penetration. This represents … Read more
The means of interface between people and computers is currently dominated by the use of a sextet of well-known devices: mice, trackpads, joy sticks, keyboards, styluses and touch screens. The latest news, however, is that Microsoft is developing an alternative means of input, one that could enable somewhat different user usage patterns. The starting point … Read more
Unilumin was showing the 6K set up that it had previously showed at ISE. The company is targeting control room applications and it reckons that it was the first to really develop high grey scale at low brightness, which is a pre-requisite in this application. Each colour channel can support 16 bits of grey scale; … Read more
AOTO is one of the better Chinese LED brands and it was showing a range of small pitch LEDs that were down to 1.2mm, 1.1mm and 0.75mm. While a number of the companies are looking at monolithic displays, AOTO is more targeted at this kind of application and is developing displays with 98″, 130″, 163″ … Read more
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