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BT will launch an UltraHD sports channel in the UK this August. A new YouView+ set-top box, with 1TB of storage, will also be launched at the same time, and will be supplied to those taking BT’s UltraHD channel.
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) saw sales fall 10.3% sequentially and 21% year on year to NT$3.7 billion ($118.8 million), bringing sales so far this year to NT$21.1 billion ($677.8 million), 12.6% lower than the same period of last year. CPT’s large panel shipments were 37.3% lower month on month and 61.2% YoY at 69,000 units. … Read more
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
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’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
NEC’s Vukunet ad serving platform has achieved more than 1.8 billion ad impressions – in 100,000 locations – since it was launched.
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
Click to enlargeNvidia has filed a patent for a VR headset, with its own CPU, GPU and storage built in. The unit will use six cameras – two forward, two down and two to the sides – and dual displays, one for each eye. The cameras angled down will track gestures, it has been suggested. … Read more
TD Maverick in Germany has expanded its partnership with Philips Professional Displays and will now be offering Philips’ entire digital signage portfolio. This includes video wall displays, touch and LED displays, high brightness and UHD displays, and Clinical-D Image solutions.
Website XperiaBlog has found that Sony’s M4 Xperia Aqua (Sony Improves the Look of its Waterproof Devices) is supplied with just 1.2GB of usable storage. The phone has 8GB of storage built in, but the Android OS takes up half of that, with an additional 2GB for Sony’s own apps. Almost 800MB is taken up … Read more
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 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
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