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At the Sapphire Marketing event in New York last spring, Crestron talked about switching 4k/30 signals and its 4k certification program. At the same event this year, Crestron focused on 4k 60 fps describing products, scalers and certification testing it is doing to try to help installers create trouble-free solutions. Crestron Executive Director, Chris Perkins, … Read more
Apple® today updated the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with the new Force Touch trackpad, faster flash storage, longer battery life and faster discrete graphics, delivering even more performance and capabilities to the MacBook Pro line. Apple also today introduced a new $1,999 configuration of the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display featuring a … Read more
Of course, we concentrate on displays here, but we couldn’t help noticing this story (http://tinyurl.com/mfebxgw) about the speed at which SSD loses data, especially at higher temperatures. Frightening information!
NEC Display Solutions Europe is launching two new affordable displays using ShadowSense touch technology, the E705 SST and the E805 SST, offering an immersive interactive experience for both business and education environments. The new multi-touch displays meet the needs of business and educational organisations seeking the benefits of interactive whiteboard applications, helping them improve efficiencies … Read more
This week we are highlighting LCD Public Displays in the 46″ Full HD category covering sizes 43.5″ to 48.49″ with 1920 x 1080 resolution. There are 9 brands featured in the advertising. Samsung is at the top of the PageShare for the combined three major countries, NEC Displays is second and LG is third. The … Read more
Tongue-twistingly-named Dlodlo, of China, has announced a pair of VR glasses weighing 120g – said to be four times lighter than competitors’ models. The glasses have the ‘look and fit’ of sunglasses. The display has 1920 x 1080 resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate and 110° field of view. They use a 2,000mAh battery, run Android … Read more
UltraHD’s success will be driven by image quality enhancements, such as HDR, HFR and wide colour gamut, as well as immersive audio, says ABI Research. The new report (paid) can be found at http://tinyurl.com/omczjlq. By 2020, when there will be commercial UltraHD TV services, as many as 70% of UltraHD TVs are expected to support … Read more
The Apple TV – by which we mean a full set, not a set-top box – has been in the rumour mill for many years. Investor Carl Icahn remains true to the dream, saying that Apple will introduce such a product – UltraHD, of course – in 2016. However, sources speaking to the Wall Street … Read more
Worldwide GPU shipments in Q1’15 were below the 10-year average of -3.6%, according to Jon Peddie Research (JPR). GPUs are a leading indicator of the PC market, and most PC vendors are guiding cautiously for Q2 – indicating that GPU shipments may be lower in that quarter, as well. The gaming PC segment was a … Read more
Exertis has hired Sarah Flannigan as the company’s new consumer business manager. Flannigan joins Exertis from Tech Data where she served as PC category manager for both consumer and commercial products. In her new role, Flannigan will be tasked with building relationships with new and existing consumer electronics manufacturers, as well as growing Exertis’ CE … Read more
Sources in Asia claim that HTC and Huawei will adopt Everdisplay’s AMOLED panels in new smartphones to be released this year. Everdisplay currently has a 5″ AMOLED panel, but is also developing 5.5″ and 6″ units.
Image credit: @UpleaksA ‘bezel-free’ smartphone, apparently code-named Lavender, has been leaked by @Upleaks on Twitter. The phone is said to be part of Sony’s E55 series, and has a FullHD display larger than the Xperia C4’s (5.5″). The processor will be a 64-bit octa-core Mediatek device running at 1.7GHz, with 2GB of RAM.
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