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Optoma Brings Middle East to Milan

Click to enlargeA VR underwater landscape, set in the Arabian Sea, and a projection of a Middle Eastern kitchen were created by LM Productions for the Milan Expo (1st May – 31st October). The installations, in the Oman and Qatar pavilions, use Optoma’s EH770 projectors, with short-throw lenses and Chameleon GB-200 blending and warping processors. … Read more

German Companies Co-operate for T2 Rollout

Several German companies have organised a joint initiative for the introduction of the DVB-T2 platform in the country. Public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, with commercial broadcasters RTL and ProSieben Sat.1, industry association VPRT and media authorities are part of the group. They have created a new logo to indicate which devices can receive -T2 signals. … Read more

Samsung Debuts Mirror and Transparent OLEDs

Samsung’s past virtual fitting room applications have used LCD screens and cameras Samsung Display has shown off new OLED panels at Retail Asia Expo 2015 (RAE), which it says are the world’s first-such transparent and mirror units (Primeview will also show a mirror OLED at Infocomm (Preparing for Infocomm), which may also be this Samsung … Read more

Samsung Display Introduces First Mirror and Transparent OLED Display Panels

Samsung Display Co., Ltd. unveiled the industry’s first Mirror and Transparent OLED display panels in a dazzling state-of-the-art showcase for personalized shopping and informational browsing, held this week at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibit features the first retail use of advanced commercial OLED panels – a “virtual necklace” display for the … Read more

Samsung Ruggedises S6 Flagship

Samsung’s Galaxy Active line-up is expanding with the Galaxy S6 Active smartphone: an iteration on its current flagship. Built with rugged use in mind, the S6 Active is housed in an IP68-compliant housing. It can survive submersion in water up to 1.5m for 30 minutes, and is shock-proof and dust-resistant. The US MIL-STD-810G standard is … Read more

Asustek Sees First Profit from Smartphones

Asustek Computer shipped over 1.5 million smartphones in May, generating a profit for the company for the first time, and says it expects shipments to exceed two million in June. The company reported sales in May of NT$33.7 billion ($1.1 billion), down by 8.6% from a year earlier but just under 2% higher than April. … Read more

New LCD Lines for Innolux

Innolux president JC Wang has said that the company will construct new G8.6 LCD facilties, entering mass production in Q3’15. Monthly capacity is expected to be 40,000 glass substrates. Panels sized from 40″ – 100″ (in increments of 5″) will be produced on the line(s); 23.6″ and 58″ panels will also be able to be … Read more

BLU Makers Have Mixed Fortunes in May

Taiwan’s main backlight unit (BLU) makers, Radiant Opto-Electronics and Coretronic, reported mixed results in May. Radiant Opto’s sales for the month fell 8.3% sequentially to NT$2.9 billion ($93.7 million), just 0.8% higher than April. So far this year, the company’s sales have fallen 18.2% year on year to NT$15.6 billion ($504.1 million). Coretronic reported sales … Read more