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It’s a bad time for iPads in education. First, schools began to favour Chromebooks over the expensive tablets – and now the Los Angeles Unified School District has asked Apple for a multi-million dollar refund. The LAUSD has told Apple that it will not accept continued deliveries and would seek the refund after it transpired … Read more
LG has issued a teaser video about the display of its upcoming G4 smartphone. The video says that the phone will have 2560 x 1440 resolution and will be 25% brighter, with a 20% wider colour range, than the G3. This is referred to as a ‘Quantum Display’ – although we already knew that (G4 … Read more
Acer’s H6517ST short-throw DLP projector is designed to make projection a matter of plug and play. It features Acer’s SmartFormat, which supports all wide-format PC signals. A PC can simply be connected and the projector will show images, without needing to change the PC’s resolution. Instant resume can be used to turn the projector back … Read more
Around 2.3 billion WiFi-connected devices were shipped worldwide last year, says Taiwan’s MIC, driven by smartphone and Internet of Things (IoT) demand. The figure was an 18% YoY rise. All sectors of the computing industry are considering the possibility of adding new IoT modules and solutions to their products, says MIC’s Remus Hsu. Based on … Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) says it is reducing its capital expenditure budget this year by $1 billion to $11 billion, because of disappointing demand for smartphone chips this quarter. Last week Intel also revised down its capex plans by $1.3 billion to $8.7 billion. TSMC’s co-CEO, Mark Liu said that despite a “challenging” environment, the … Read more
The next iPhone will use the same Force Touch technology as is featured on the Apple Watch, say Taiwanese panel makers. The sources say that Apple is experimenting with the placement of the sensor, which will be supplied by TPK and GIS. It will either be between the outermost protective screen cover and the in-cell … Read more
Touch panel orders for Asus’ Zenfone smartphones will be moved from O-Film back to makers in Taiwan, say sources in the country. The new suppliers will include JTouch, TPK and Young Fast Electronics. O-Film has apparently struggled to achieve the quality that Asus demanded.
In a setback for the laser projection industry, the FDA has not taken the advice of industry experts and has issued a tentative ruling that many view does not go far enough in removing roadblocks for the smooth roll-out of laser-based projection solutions. On February 18, 2015 it published new guidance on laser illuminated projectors. … Read more
At the Technology Summit for Cinema, Frederik Zilly of Fraunhofer IIS told a very interesting story about the making of their first movie using light field production techniques. Over the last couple of years, his team has developed the technology for light field capture and processing using a 4×4 array of cameras creating short stop … Read more
Eizo has a new feature on the color calibrating 4K monitors that allows the operator to see what colors are out-of-gamut. This was demonstrated by playing 2020 graded content into two identical monitors, both calibrated for Rec. 709. One showed the transform from the 2020 grade to the 709 grade. The other overlaid a gray … Read more
NAB 2015 was the first place that JVC showed new High Dynamic Range (HDR) monitors it has in development. On display was a 70″ and a 32″, both based on rear projection architectures.
Astro Design used NAB 2015 to show off what it believes is the world’s first 55″ 8K resolution display.
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