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ARRIS Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) (ARRIS) and Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) (Charter) announced today that they established a joint venture that has agreed to acquire ActiveVideo® for approximately $135 million. ARRIS will own 65% of the joint venture company and will be the sales channel for ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform. Closing of the transaction is … Read more
We spoke in a telephone interview with Phil Gaut of Samsung UK about the recent release of the firm’s curved desktop monitors (Samsung Brings its Curve to Europe) These were launched a couple of weeks ago with the support of a document endorsed by Prof. Stephen Westland, Professor of Colour Science at the University of … Read more
A combination of company announcements, seemingly reliable reporting and just plain rumors make it reasonable to believe that OLED television is finally getting its second wind. The reliable reporting centers on LG Display increasing its panel production, with LG Electronics modestly decreasing some set prices. The rumors center on Samsung re-entering the OLED-TV business, but … Read more
US-based Touch International has expanded its range of display enhancements. The company can now design, develop and build custom dual-mode sunlight-readable LCD units, which also support night vision use. The custom displays can be up to 19″ and have an operating temperature of -30° – 85°. In night vision mode, these units comply with the … Read more
Eyevis and IVC Technologies are working together to build an automated visualisation wall; they are also working with the R&D headquarters of an unnamed ‘major international client’. The system will be built for research and monitoring in the medical, security and military sectors. The prototype uses Eyevis’ 58″ UltraHD LCD displays.
More than a year after it was announced at CES 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3), Sony’s Lifespace UX projector – the LSPX-W1S – has been launched in Europe. It is an ultra-short throw model producing DCI-4k resolution images, up to 147″. Sony’s projector will be available bundled with a new short-throw projection screen … Read more
A 65″ version of NEC‘s X981UHD display has been released. The X651UHD has a 60Hz refresh rate and can display up to four separate content feeds at once. The unit uses an IPS panel with a 1,400:1 contrast ratio, and LED backlight producing 500 cd/m². It can show 10-bit colour, upscale to UltraHD and features … Read more
Two of Eizo‘s UltraHD monitors – the CG318-4K and CG248-4K (Wide Colour and High Resolution on Eizo’s ColorEdgeEizo Reaches New Pixel Density Record) – have had Imagica’s 3D look-up table data integrated. With the new look-up table, the monitors can be used to display and edit images using the Rec.2020 colour space. Rec.2020 can be … Read more
Apple has begun to support lower-cost UltraHD displays with the release of OSX 10.10.3. Previously, Apple’s devices would only send UltraHD signals to Multi-Stream Transport displays at 60Hz. With this change Single-Stream Transport models, like Dell’s UP2715K, are also supported at 60Hz. SST models tend to be lower-cost than those with MST technology. Apple has … Read more
Seene is a company specialising in 3D image capture on iOS and Android, and has now turned its attention to VR. The Seene app has now been updated, and can be used to shoot, share and experience virtual reality. Smartphones supporting Seene can now be used with Google Cardboard, acting as a display for VR … Read more
Signature Outdoor has installed a new LED display in Birmingham’s financial hub. Cityvision Snow Hill is a portrait-style unit overlooking Queensway, with a fortnightly impact of more 3.5 million people, following an upcoming tram extension. The display is 5.76m x 3.2m, with a 10mm pixel pitch and 300 cd/m² of brightness. Analyst Comment 300 cd/m² … Read more
Teardown specialist iFixit has found that the secret behind Apple’s new Macbook is…glue. Lots and lots of glue. The company gave the device a 1/10 repairability score. Most of the internals are battery, with the connector hidden underneath the notebook’s logic board, as it is on the iPad. The unit’s display is again fused to … Read more
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