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Christie has begun the rollout of its new Christie Experiential Networks solution, introduced last October, to 200 cinema lobbies across the USA. CEN uses two display platforms: digital one-sheets (65″ vertically-oriented displays in wall-mounted single or free-standing dual/quad-sided configurations); and ‘digital standees’ (four free-standing displays: 84″ on the front and back and 65″ on the … Read more
Dell, Intel, Red Digital Cinema and Sharp are working together to live-stream the ‘Fader Fort Presented by Converse’ concert from the SXSW Festival in Texas, in UltraHD. The stream will begin on 17th March at a Dell preview event, followed by the full stream starting the 18th and running until the 21st, from 1pm and … Read more
Exertis Captech in Sweden has extended its partnership with Asustek and is now offering the complete range of Asustek’s products.
BenQ smartphones are now available in the Ukraine through distributor MTI.
Photo credit: Pocket LintUK-based Pratech’s smartwatch, called UB, has a rotating display. It was shown at the recent Wearable Technology Show in London. The device is currently a prototype, and fairly chunky according to Pocket Lint. There is one button, which turns the 1.8″ colour touchscreen LCD display (300 ppi) on and off. The display … Read more
Two years after Google introduced the first Chromebook Pixel (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 8), the company has shown off the second-generation model – with more speed, more power and the new USB-C interface. The original Pixel was a 12.85″ device with 2560 x 1700 resolution and a touchscreen; the new unit hasn’t changed that. … Read more
Taiwan’s major notebook manufacturers and ODMs reported sequential sales declines in February, a traditionally slow month because of fewer working days and the Chinese New Year. Acer reported a 9% month on month and 15.6% year on year fall in sales last month to NT$20.6 billion ($651.5 million), bringing sales so far this year to … Read more
Foxconn Electronics’ sales slipped 29.3% month on month to NT$280 billion ($8.9 billion), though this was 7.4% higher than February of last year. Sales for January and February climbed 17.5% year on year to NT$676 billion ($21.4 billion). Of Foxconn’s three major business areas, information, communication and consumer electronics, the consumer electronics business recorded the … Read more
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, a German public broadcaster, is to begin trialing DVB-T2 in August. The tests will offer HD content in the Bonn/Cologne region.
Greece has completed its analogue switch-off. The DTT platform is now available to more than 96% of the country’s population.
Free, a French company that has developed an UltraHD Android STB, is powering the box with a Broadcom chip. The Freebox uses a BCM7252 SoC and can show streamed, terrestrial, VoD and recorded content. It is claimed to be the first to support 4Kp60 10-bit HEVC content. Broadcom’s BCM43570 is also used to Bluetooth remote … Read more
The new 12″ MacBook (available April 10) announced this week by Apple and the new XPS 13 notebook PC from Dell (available now) that was first shown at CES 2015, are both great examples of the current state-of-the-art in notebook computer design. The New 12″ MacBook Source: The Verge Dell XPS 13 Source: The Verge … Read more
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