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Worldwide Tablet Shipments Experience First YoY Decline in Q4 While Full Year Shipments Show Modest Growth

February 2, 2015 by Helen Vince

Worldwide tablet shipments recorded a year-over-year decline for the first time since the market’s inception in 2010. Overall shipments for tablets and 2-in-1 devices reached 76.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14) for -3.2% growth, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Although the fourth quarter witnessed … Read more

Deluxe Steps Up Role in 4K-UHD Delivery Ecosystem

February 2, 2015 by Chris Chinnock

HD content today is delivered to a dizzying array of devices in a multitude of formats. While we are not there yet for the delivery of UHD-4k content, many of the same technologies and platforms will be used for 4k. Now we have learned that Deluxe is leveraging its existing OnDemand services to offer 4k-UHD content services … Read more

Archimedia Announces Atlas Player Support for 4K 60p and HDR Content on Any Display

February 2, 2015 by Tom Allen

Archimedia Technology, a company whose applications bring precise multiformat viewing to the professional’s desktop, TV, UHDTV, and SDI infrastructure, today announced the release of Atlas 3.1.1, the newest version of its full-featured precision media player. Atlas now makes it possible to watch 4K 60p content encoded in practically any format from all kinds of sources … Read more

Barco Finalises Defense & Aerospace Unit Sale to Esterline

February 2, 2015 by Helen Vince

Barco has finalised the sale of its Defense & Aerospace division to Esterline in the US (Barco to Sell Defense & Aerospace Division to US-based Esterline). As a result, all employees in the division have joined the Esterline group and Barco’s activities in the defence and aerospace markets have been transferred. In return, Esterline has transferred … Read more

Eye Expands DOOH at Newcastle

February 2, 2015 by Tom Allen

Eye Airports is installing new high-res advertising screens in Newcastle International Airport. The Initial rollout is of two 70″ LCD units with 1920 x 1080 resolution; the installation was managed by Eye Airports’ own team. Eye believes that the screens, which add to the airport’s limited DOOH advertising portfolio, will support brand’s campaigns and audience … Read more

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 6

December 21, 2022February 2, 2015 by Tom Allen

A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia and supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as MacOS versions from 10.8 to 10.10. Users can use the adapter to send signals from a USB source … Read more

Toshiba Switches Distributors

February 2, 2015 by Helen Vince

Toshiba has replaced its distributor for notebooks and tablets in Romania, MB Distribution, with Asbus. The company’s LED TV sets will carry on being offered in the region by Skin Media.

BenQ Helps Out Small-Screen Gamers

February 2, 2015 by Tom Allen

BenQ is launching a desktop monitor specifically designed for console gamers who prefer a smaller screen. The 27″ RL2755HM has a 1ms response time, colour settings calibrated for console use (with 20 levels of variance) and a rubber finish on the stand to hold gamepads. A hook on the rear supports headset storage. BenQ’s Black … Read more

Epson Performs Well in December Projectors

February 2, 2015 by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in December. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘high-end’. Optoma book-ended the pico and personal category with the ML750 (first) and ML550 (fifth). Asus’ S1 took second place and Aaxa’s P4-X and P300 Pico appeared in third and … Read more

Fujitsu Result 06/02/2015

February 2, 2015 by Helen Vince

Fujitsu Limited reported a Q3 net profit of ¥27.6 billion ($235.2 million), down 37% year on year from the previous year’s third quarter net profit of ¥43.8 billion ($373.2 million), on turnover which fell 2.4% to ¥1.1 trillion ($9.3 billion) from ¥1.2 trillion ($10.2 billion). For the first nine months of the year, Fujitsu’s net … Read more

Microsoft Will Charge for Corporate Windows 10

February 2, 2015 by Tom Allen

While Microsoft has committed to providing Windows 10 for free to users of Windows 7 and 8 (both Home and Pro versions) (Microsoft unveils Windows 10), corporate users running the Enterprise version of the operating systems will have to pay, the company has revealed. Two versions of Windows 10 will be available for corporate use: Long … Read more

LG Leak Suggests 3k Resolution

February 2, 2015 by Tom Allen

A leaked user agent profile, sent to LG community website Mylgphones.com, shows a high resolution for the device: 2880 x 1620. The phone in the profile used the code LG-VS999, which has been taken to mean the G4. The G3 was referred to as LG-VS9985 by Verizon. Online sources commonly attribute a 5.5″ display to … Read more