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The UltraHD Blu-ray standard was announced this month (BDA Completes UltraHD Blu-ray), and Panasonic has wasted no time in talking about pricing, with a promise of ‘No thousand-dollar machines’. Ron Martin, of Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, has told What Hi-Fi that Panasonic – and most other manufacturers – will be showing UltraHD Blu-ray players by IFA, … Read more
Acer’s S1385WHne professional DLP projector can throw images from short distances. Presenters can use a pen input using Acer’s Smart Pen – from up to 9.7m from the screen – and the unit can be controlled through LAN using Crestron. The projector is 3D-ready and can show images at 24fps, with a 144Hz refresh rate. … Read more
The global tablet processor market will continue to slow this year, says Taiwan’s MIC, based on a saturated market; phablet competition; and low-cost notebook popularity. The market will reach the point of stagnation ‘in the next few years’. Following three years of growth, tablet processor shipments only rose 1.3% YoY in 2014, MIC’s data shows. … Read more
Wistron expects its notebook shipments to be flat in this quarter, from last quarter’s 4.7 million units. However, the company has told the Taipei Times that it is optimistic for the second half of the year, when Windows 10 and Intel’s new Skylake microarchitecure will be launched. Shipments of smart devices are expected to fall … Read more
Sling Media has launched its Slingbox M1 in Europe. The Slingbox can send HD TV content from a user’s home to a mobile device, worldwide.
BAE has announced a partnership with the University of Birmingham with the goal of developing augmented reality systems. The new “augmented reality systems could revolutionize complex emergency response and military battlefield operations, by drastically improving the situational awareness, decision-making and asset management of operators”, as BAE stated in its press release. The company also released … Read more
OTOY Inc. (Los Angeles, CA), is developing a camera system that can capture a spherical light field of a real world environment. Such imagery can be transformed into a virtual world scene that is viewable by a user wearing 3D VR goggles. Most significantly, the new system will eventually allow the user to move freely … Read more
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we had a chance to see a smartglass device that was developed by Fujitsu for the vertical markets(Fujitsu Looks to Industrial Apps and Iris Recognition). Now Fujitsu has announced that the device is going into actual supply status. According to the press release, the device will be available … Read more
Streaming Media East also had a small exhibition area with 47 companies showing off their offering related to content creation and streaming video. While there were some acquisition-related exhibitors, most exhibitors offered management and monetization solutions for streamed content. These refer to software solutions that make it easier for companies to create streaming solutions. Most … Read more
LG Electronics and SPI International/Filmbox are announcing a collaboration to promote the new line of LG Super UHD televisions (in the U.S., U.K. Turkey, Morocco known as LG Prime UHD) and to make more 4K content available to LG Smart TV users in Poland, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. A special new promotion … Read more
Global shipments of over-the-top (OTT) set-top boxes (STBs) sold at retail — including Apple TV, Chromecast and Roku boxes — will overtake shipments of IPTV STBs used for pay TV services in 2015, according to a new report from IHS (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. This year, 31 million … Read more
TCL, one of the fastest growing TV brands in the U.S., today announced that seven new TCL Roku TVs™ will be available later this month in-store and online at major retailers nationwide. Following the launch of three 3700 series models in March, TCL is expanding its 2015 TCL Roku TV lineup with three 3800 Design … Read more
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