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CE Week 2015 Kicks Off With Spotlight on Five Key Technology Trends

Like fashion, the tech world has its fall lineup.CE Week is calling it a banner year for: Wearable Technology, Connected Cars, Next Gen TVs & Audio Equipment, Smart Home and Emerging Technologies including AR, robotics and 3D printing. The CE industry’s largest mid-year event, CE Week brings together media, analysts and technology thought leaders for … Read more

BenQ Releases Full Line of 100% sRGB Colorific Projectors

BenQ America Corp., an internationally renowned provider of visual display solutions and the No. 1-selling projector brand powered by TI DLP technology in The Americas, today announced the introduction of a full lineup of 100% sRGB Colorific projectors at InfoComm 2015. The new roster has been purpose-built to follow the sRGB color space, a well … Read more

BenQ Prepares Colorific Models for Infocomm

A new line of DLP projectors has been announced by BenQ, which will be shown at Infocomm 2015 (13th – 19th June, Orlando). Each has been built to cover 100% of the sRGB colour space, rather than relying on high brightness levels. Currently only the existing two projectors have data sheets available: the flagship HC1200 … Read more

US Pay-TV Approaches Maturity

IHS’ data regarding the US pay-TV market shows that cable operators cut their subscriber losses in Q1’15, while IPTV and satellite growth slowed. Cable companies lost 132,900 subscribers QoQ in Q1. Erik Brannon, TV media analyst at IHS, writes that cable’s strong performance shows that the maturation of the US pay-TV market is almost complete. … Read more

Private Telecoms Continue to Drive German CE Market

Germany’s consumer electronics market began the year positively; revenues were up 2% YoY in Q1, to €6.7 billion, according to the GFU’s Cemix data. Cemix data is divided into three sections: Classic CE, Private-Use Telecom Products and Private-Use IT Products. Sales of classic CE products – including items such as TVs and STBs – were … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 22

Credit: DigitimesLocal sources report that Hisense launched new ‘ULED’ (the company’s answer to AMOLED) TVs at CES Asia last week. Two of the units were curved, in 55″ and 65″ sizes, and one was a 78″ UltraHD model with a wide colour gamut. We are searching for more information about these models, but nothing had … Read more

Optoma’s ISE Models Arrive

Optoma’s new bright, short-throw projectors are now available in Europe. We saw one of the interactive models at ISE this year (Partnership Promotes Mapping at Optoma). At 4,000 lumens, the EH320UST and W320UST (and interactive EH320USTi and W320USTi) are among the brightest UST projectors available in the market today, says Optoma. Fast set-up is supported … Read more

Sharp Converts Up and Down to Raise Quality

Sharp has demonstrated a new 80″ TV offering ‘virtual’ 8k resolution. The Aquos 4k Next LC-80XU30 (what a mouthful) isn’t simply a prototype, either – it will go on sale in Japan in July, for ¥1.6 million ($13,000) ex VAT. IDG’s Tim Hornyak, who was at the press conference in Tokyo where the TV was … Read more