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Despite Apple putting up the majority of the $1.4 billion investment in a new Japan Display LCD plant, JDI will be free to mass-produce products for other vendors at the facility. According to the Japanese paper Nikkan, JDI will be able to take on other work as long as it does not conflict with ‘key … Read more
Taiwan’s two main BLU manufacturers, Coretronic and Radiant-Optoelectronics both reported declines in sales and shipments in February. Coretronic shipped 5.3 million BLU units, 24% down from January and said that it expects overall first quarter BLU shipments to drop 15% from Q4. LCD TV BLUs are forecast to grow over 10%, while for LCD monitor … Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSMC) recorded its lowest monthly sales since June 2014 in February, at NT$62.2 billion ($2 billion). This was 28.1% lower than January 2015 but 33.8% higher than February 2014. For the first two months of the year, TSMC’s increased 52.4% to NT$149.7 billion ($4.7 billion). The company has forecast sales in Q1 of … Read more
Motive and Tablet TV have entered into two licensing agreements for the service’s US and Canadian launch of mobile and VOD content services. They cover the technology used in the service and define the royalties that Motive will receive.
Free, a French company, has launched the ‘Freebox Mini 4k’ – a gateway/set-top box that runs Android TV and can play UltraHD content. It consists of two units: a server and a player. The player is a STB supporting HEVC content, with access to the Play Store. It is based on a 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A15 … Read more
It’s Press Day at the 2015 Digital Signage Expo and while most exhibitors are busy setting up, a select lucky few had the chance to attend the Live Installation Tour that has become a hallmark experience of the Las Vegas based event. Center Bar at SLS Dazzled with amazing use of negative space in its … Read more
Cuberox (Vancouver, WA and Prague, Czech Republic) is developing a unique device also called Cuberox. Physically, the device is a black cube with a 16 x 16 white LED display on each of its six sides. Inside the cube is a full-fledged computer. Each side of the cube can simultaneously run a stand-alone application making … Read more
Lenovo has refreshed its Thinkvision T Series LCD monitor lineup, with seven new models with thin profiles and adjustable stands. Five models have an IPS panel, while two use TN technology. The new monitors are the T2224p, T2224z (21.5″), T2324p (23″), T2424p (23.8″) and T2454p (24″) (IPS) and the T2254 and T2254p (22″) (TN). All … Read more
Wearables were mainly represented by smartwatches at MWC 2015. Most top OEMs have smartwatches in their portfolio or have first models announced with many new announcements coming out at the MWC 2015 in Barcelona. The observer is seeing two main approaches to this market. There is the smart version of the digital watch as marketed … Read more
ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solution products, introduces the VG2847Smh 28-inch Full HD monitor. The VG2847Smh delivers superior screen performance with a SuperClear MVA panel while an integrated virtual desktop infrastructure endpoint mount makes it an ideal desktop monitor solution for business, government and educational organizations deploying VDI solutions. With its SuperClear … Read more
Two years after announcing its entrance into the media player market, the global provider of digital signage software, BroadSign International, LLC, is launching its second hardware product, BroadSign Xpress Pro. BroadSign Xpress Pro is based on a quad-core Intel® processor and the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro operating system. Featuring 2 GB RAM and 32 … Read more
Professor Philip Willis at the University of Bath in the UK and his colleagues published an article in the March 2015 issue of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal titled “Taking the Pixel Out of the Picture”. This was based, in part, on an earlier 2012 article in the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (JVRB). … Read more
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