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Samsung Drives SMART Signage Innovation and Adoption at DSE 2015 with New Color Expert Technology

March 12, 2015 by Tom Allen

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is showcasing its new SMART Signage Video Walls with Color Expert technology along with a broad range of solutions for any digital signage environment at the 2015 Digital Signage Expo (DSE). Highlights from Samsung’s 2015 lineup, including small signage solutions, high-brightness displays, video wall installations featuring Samsung Color Expert technology and … Read more

Visualplanet Appoints Arrow for EMEA

March 12, 2015 by Helen Vince

Visualplanet, which produces large format touch sensor technology for digital, self-service interactive applications, has appointed Arrow Electronics as its distributor in EMEA. Arrow will offer Visualplanet’s touchfoil technology which can be applied to glass and many other surfaces to add interactive touch capabilities. Analyst Comment This would add to Arrow’s capabilities that could be used … Read more

Barco Tiles Brighten Up Advertising Market

March 12, 2015 by Tom Allen

Two new units have been added to Barco’s range of indoor LED tiles. The V41 (4mm) and V6i (6mm) are designed for fixed indoor installation in various advertising applications. Both units will run 24/7. Like other V-series LED displays, they are managed and controlled by Barco’s V-series Toolset (VTS) software. The VTS can be used … Read more

Christie’s CEN Arrives in US Cinema Lobbies

March 12, 2015 by Tom Allen

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 Live-Streams Concert in UltraHD From SXSW

March 12, 2015 by Tom Allen

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 Extends Asustek Partnership

March 12, 2015 by Helen Vince

Exertis Captech in Sweden has extended its partnership with Asustek and is now offering the complete range of Asustek’s products.

BenQ Adds MTI for Phones in Ukraine

March 12, 2015 by Helen Vince

BenQ smartphones are now available in the Ukraine through distributor MTI.

Rotating Display Enables Switch Between Watch and Fitness Band

March 12, 2015 by Tom Allen

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

Google Boosts Pixel to Ludicrous Speed (Officially)

March 12, 2015 by Tom Allen

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 Notebook Manufacturers Report Slow February

March 12, 2015 by Helen Vince

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 February Revenue Down 30% MoM

March 12, 2015 by Helen Vince

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

Another Broadcaster Begins -T2 Testing

March 12, 2015 by Tom Allen

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.