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TV Brands Sign Up to Digitaleurope Logo

Five companies have signed up to use Digitaleurope’s UltraHD TV logo, unveiled at IFA 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 35). LG, Panasonic, Sony, Philips and Samsung will begin to use the logo, which shows that a TV has 3840 x 1260 resolution, meets the Rec.709 standard and supports refresh rates between 24fps and 60fps, … Read more

Mobile Devices May Interfere with Children’s Development

Since the introduction of mobile devices, their use has been spreading from adults to the younger generation. In the US and many other countries this development has on the one hand created an increase in device sales, especially for smartphones, but at the same time increased accessibility of such devices to small children. The use … Read more

Eyevis DLP Cube is Slim

Eyevis always has lots to show us and this year’s ISE was no exception. We started by looking at the new DLP-based “Slim-cubes” which are 50″ 1920 x 1080 FullHD sets which are just 422mm deep, said to be the thinnest in the world. Brightness is 370 cd/m². The cubes are designed to allow access … Read more

ARM Sets New Standard for the Premium Mobile Experience

ARM announced a suite of IP that will enable a new standard for premium experiences on 2016 mobile devices. At the heart of this suite is the ARM Cortex-A72 processor, which is the highest performing CPU technology available for developing mobile SoCs today. In target configurations, the Cortex-A72 processor will deliver CPU performance that is … Read more

Plastic Logic Spin-Off Creates Flexible Circuit for OLEDs

FlexEnable’s OLED display reaches a 60Hz refresh rate and has a 0.25mm bend radiusFlexEnable, the new Cambridge-based company spun off of Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), claims that its work will enable flexible display production by the end of 2015. FlexEnable’s technology enables the printing of plastic electronic circuits onto flexible films, … Read more

Sony Cuts Loss Forecast but Also Cuts More Jobs

Sony says it expects to record an annual net loss this year of ¥170 billion ($1.4 billion), a considerable improvement on the company’s previous forecast of a net loss of ¥230 billion ($1.9 billion). Sony cited a weaker yen and improving smartphone sales for the revision and also reported that third quarter net profit had tripled from … Read more

ARM Reaches 120fps UltraHD on Mobile

ARM has IP for a new processor called the Cortex-A72, for mobile SoC, which can support UltraHD at 120fps. 10 vendors, including HiSilicon, MediaTek and Rockchip, have already licensed the processor. The Cortex-A72 is based on the ARMv8-A architecture, which delivers 64-bit processing and is backwards-compatible with 32-bit software. It will sustain operations at 2.5GHz in … Read more

Saygus Takes Aim at UltraHD on Mobile

Aiming to bring long-format UltraHD to mobiles, little-known US company Saygus has introduced the Saygus V² – a smartphone with up to 320GB of storage. UltraHD recorded at 30fps takes up about 2GB for every minute of video – the average storage of 32GB – 64GB will only hold about 15-30 minutes of video. Saygus, however, is … Read more