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Changhong Lets Us Down

Changhong was showing many products that had been introduced at IFA, including its short-throw projector. The stand was mostly conceptual items and there were, as always, few people capable of talking about the products in any detail. The most noticeable ‘finished’ product was a curved UltraHD quantum dot TV (using QDs from 3M) called the … Read more

Lenovo Dominates Showstoppers

The third and final press event, Showstoppers, takes place in The Wynn hotel – a long walk from any monorail stops! Thankfully, the shuttle bus from the LVCC takes you directly to the ballroom doors. Audio products were on show from Bang & Olufsen. The fifth generation of silver nanowires, code-named Mercury, were being shown by Cambrios. … Read more

Emmy Awards for Familiar Names

Two companies familiar to Display Daily readers won engineering Emmy Awards recently for their work on JPEG2000 (J2K), intoPIX and Barco. Each company received a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for its work on JPEG2000 standardization and interoperability within the framework of the Video Services Forum (VSF). The Television Academy and its New York-based sister organization, the National Academy of … Read more

Phones, TVs and Tablets to Rise This Year, Says GfK

The IFA Media Reception is held every year at CES in The Wynn hotel, just before the Showstoppers press event. As well as promoting IFA, there is always some useful data shared! The event was hosted this year by Dave Graveline (of the Into Tomorrow radio show), who, after introductions, handed over to Jürgen Boyny of GfK. … Read more

Atmel Improves Development Time and adds Automotive Apps

Atmel showed this automotive demo at PepcomTouch controller maker, Atmel, was at the Pepcom event and was talking about its latest developments. The company is making its touch technology more sensitive as there are more and more customers that are now looking for hover as well as touch functions. There was a new demonstration of … Read more

Haier Builds on IFA Releases

TVs were Haier’s focus at CES; while the company has a range of mobile devices, it introduces them at different shows, including IFA. On the subject of IFA, several products from the 2014 show were on display at CES. These included the U9000 modular TV (similar to Samsung’s Evolution Kit-compatible sets), which is due to … Read more

Too Much from Lenovo….

Lenovo Stacks

Lenovo had a huge range of new products at CES, but was not showing publicly on the show floor. Fortunately, we have friends in high places and we were able to meet the company a couple of times at the Pepcom event and also in the meeting room in the Venetian. Lenovo is doing well … Read more

UL Introduces Comprehensive Compliance Services for the Wearable Technology Industry

UL Consumer Technology, a global leader of product safety testing and certification for over 100 years, announced today the launch of a comprehensive service that offers customized product validation, advisory, testing, risk mitigation, interoperability, and global market access services. The services will help to assist manufacturers in supplying consumers with safer and more reliable wearable … Read more

Quantum Dots Will Jump 500% Over 9 Years

According to Touch Display Research, the quantum dot component market will be worth more than $2 billion by 2016, and exceed $10.6 billion by 2025. Jennifer Colegrove, CEO and principal analyst, said that quantum dots are “one of the biggest breakthrough technologies for LCD in recent years”. Display Daily Comment Based on the number of quantum … Read more

MediaTek Sets up ‘The Bomb’

Reports from China claim that Mediatek is working on a processor with ten (deca) or twelve (dodeca) cores, neatly bypassing the 64-bit octa-core processors that are being released today. According to GizChina, the new chipset is code-named ‘Bomb’ and will use an ARM architecture. Comment Adding more cores introduces issues, such as higher battery consumption … Read more

LDM Product Roundup: Volume 22 No 3

A range of UltraHD products has been added to Crestron‘s DM 3.0 lineup. These include the DM-RMC-4K-SCALER-C (a 60Hz scaler); HDBaseT input (DMC-4K-C/DMC-4K-C-DSP) and HDMI output (DMC-4K-HDO) cards; plenium (DM-CBL-ULTRA-P) and non-plenium (DM-CBL-ULTRA-NP) type CMR HDBaseT cables; and 1×2 (HD-DA2-4K-E), 1×4 (HD-DA4-4K-E) and 1×8 (HD-DA8-4K-E) HDMI distribution amplifiers. MSI‘s 15.6″ GE62 laptop takes on industrial design elements … Read more