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Loewe’s Reference TV line has been refreshed with a new 55″ UltraHD model. Like Loewe’s other TVs, this is a premium set, with an aluminium frame, anti-reflective display and dual front-facing 60W speakers. The new model is a smart TV, with HDMI (x4, x1 carrying UltraHD at 60fps), component, Scart, VGA and USB (x3, x1 … Read more
After many years, Oculus VR has revealed the final design of its consumer headset – set to be released in Q1’16. As well as the Rift headset, Oculus showed off circular controllers that will be used to send commands to the device. The headset has two OLED displays, a dial to adjust focus (many VR … Read more
Following rumours of Indian investment (Foxconn Looks at India for Expansion), Foxconn will send a delegation of officers to the country to scout for locations in the country next month. The news comes from Subhash Desai, industries minister of Maharashtra, speaking to Reuters.
China’s Irico Electronics is to build new 8.5G glass substrate back-end production facilities, at an estimated cost of $50.7 million. The new plant will have an annual production capacity of 950,000 substrates, supplying companies such as CEC Panda and BOE. Irico also has six 5G lines and three 6G lines, which produced 1.21 million substrates … Read more
Tianma Micro-Electronics has chosen to use Corning’s Lotus NXT Glass for two new LTPS display panels. The glass has been used in new 5.46″ and 4.97″ products, with 1920 x 1080 resolution. The panels will be commercialised in Q3’15.
Cisco has said that it took part in the experimental UltraHD broadcast of the UEFA Champions’ League match on 6th June. Canal+ used Cisco’s Videoscale Anyres Live UltraHD encoders, to broadcast the content over satellite and OTT.
Foxconn Electronics saw sales fall 14.4% sequentially to NT$301.6 billion ($9.7 billion) in May, though this was 12.6% higher than a year earlier. May’s result brought sales so far this year to NT$1.7 trillion ($54.9 billion), 15.4% higher than the same period of last year. The company’s sales are expected to continue to fall during … Read more
Vixs Systems Inc. has reported its first quarter results, narrowing its net loss to $1.7 million from $5.1 million in Q1 of last year. Turnover improved 34% to $9.9 million from $7.4 million a year earlier.
Parks Associates has forecast that global OTT revenues will rise from sub-$9 billion to more than $19 billion in 2019. In the USA and UK, 57% of broadband households subscribe to such a service, compared to 29% in Spain and 24% in Germany. Around 7% of US households (8.4 million) were found to subscribe to … Read more
We were impressed with the Sharp Free Form displays that we saw at CES, but we were unable to get much more information, so we were pleased to catch up with the company at SID to get more background. Sharp told us that the key breakthrough was in developing IGZO technology, which allows the gate … Read more
I’d be tempted to say that the sheer number of things that JDI showed us was the highlight of the booth, but several of the demos were also very impressive. We started by looking at the JDI Memory in Pixel (MIP) technology (a concept which was also being shown by Sharp and AUO). JDI had … Read more
AUO started by showing us its 1.3″ (320 x 320 – 257ppi 350 cd/m²) plastic AMOLED and its 1.4″ “Full Circle” (400 x 400 – 287ppi 350 cd/m²) OLED which won the SID Best in Show award for 2015. The display uses special driver and cutting techniques to form a completely round display. Next we … Read more
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