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Digital UK and Freeview have today announced that Panasonic will be the first manufacturer to launch TVs featuring the Freeview Play connected TV service. Panasonic will make Freeview Play available in its new 2015 line-up of VIERA TVs. Channel 5’s Demand 5 service will also join the platform – completing the launch line-up of catch-up … Read more
According to sources close to Sony, the company may announce an exit from the smartphone market at MWC this year. Australia’s Smarthouse has been told that ‘a number of parties’, including TCL, have expressed an interest in licensing the rights to Sony smartphones. CEO Kazuo Hirai recently said that he would not “rule out considering … Read more
Palmer Lucky, co-CEO of Oculus VR, has re-stated partner Brendan Iribe’s comments (Consumers Will Get Hands (and Eyes) on Oculus This Year) that the consumer version of the Oculus Rift will be launched this autumn or winter. However, there are rumours that the release might come earlier to compete with Microsoft’s Hololens augmented reality headset, … Read more
Tech Data in Germany is now distributing Philips’ LCD monitors.
More information has been revealed about Panasonic’s 2015 UltraHD TV lineup for the European market. At CES this year we saw the company’s new flat TV, the CX850 (Panasonic is Big on B2B), which will be known as the CX800 in Europe. Three curved ranges – the CR850, CR730 and CR430 – will join it, … Read more
The UK’s free digital TV service, Freeview, is being rebranded to Freeview Play, it was announced recently. Now, Digital UK has said that Panasonic will be the first manufacturer producing TVs with the service pre-installed. Several of Panasonic’s 2015 Viera TVs will use the service, which combines catch-up, VoD and live TV.
At last Sunday night’s Academy Awards banquet, worldwide recognition was given to three centerpiece display technologies, LCD, OLED and DLP digital projection, during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hollywood gala event. While most of the night celebrated the Arts side of the industry, including the Best Actor nod going to the British … Read more
Last year, Magic Leap, the Florida-based augmented reality company announced a $542 million financing round with Google leading the way. The announcement came just before Google pulled the plug on the Google Glass Explorer program. We reported then on the investment in Magic Leap, but were unsure what the company was really developing. A recent … Read more
Pixelworks’s CEO, Bruce Walicek, and CFO, Steven Moore, will take part in the 2015 ROTH Conference this month. The conference takes place on 9th March in Dana Point, CA; Walicek and Moore will take the stage at 15.30.
Broadsign has promoted Maarten Dollevoet to the role of regional manager of sales for Europe. Dollevoet had previously served as business development manager for Broadsign covering the EMEA region. The company also announced that co-founder and vice president of marketing and strategy, Daniel Parisien, is to leave the company next month. Parisien said he felt … Read more
Forth Dimension Displays (ForthDD) , a subsidiary of Kopin Corporation, announced at Photonics West (7 – 12 February 2015) a new QXGA (2048 x 1536) resolution imager and drive board, the QXGA-3DM. The QXGA-3DM combines a high resolution LCoS microdisplay with an application specific drive interface. The system is designed for non-video applications such as … Read more
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”Arthur C. Clarke While enjoying a recent regenerative cruise in the blue Caribbean, my senses and imagination were marvelously heightened after experiencing a unique iMagic show on board the Celebrity Summit. This was indeed a first. This was the first time technology has been fronted successfully as both … Read more
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