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52 countries have connection speeds capable of supporting UltraHD services (above 15Mbps), according to Akamai’s Q3 State of the Internet report. While this is down 2.8% QoQ, it is up 32% YoY. South Korea remained the country most ready for UltraHD, with 65% of its connections to Akamai at or above 15Mbps.
The Eutelsat TV Observatory has said that satellite DTH was the primary TV reception mode in Europe at the end of 2014. Surveying 15 countries in Western Europe, the ETVO found that 32% of the 179 million homes covered used satellite DTH, up 7% (to 58.1 million homes) since 2010. Exclusive DTT reception is up to … Read more
The UK government’s technology strategy board, Innovate UK, has allocated a £210,000 ($319,200) fund to drive innovation in wearable technology. Six winners of a wearables competetion will each receive £35,000 ($53,200). Successful companies will be expected to put their proposed products through trials with Innovate UK’s partners, such as Disney and McLaren, for three months. … Read more
Hannstar Display reported a 24.7% drop in sales for 2014, falling to NT$23.7 billion ($748.2 million). In December, sales of NT$2 billion ($63.1 million) were 1.8% lower than November but 5.2% higher than December 2013. The company’s total panel shipments also declined year on year. Large panel shipments in 2014 fell 33% to 667,000 units, … Read more
Christie has signed a new partnership agreement with Sahara Benelux which will distribute Christie’s range of displays in the Netherlands and Belgium. Sahara Benelux will offer Christie’s full range of products, including flat screens, Brio, MicroTiles, Velvet indoor LEDs and projectors. Christie will be at ISE in Amsterdam in February on booth 1-H50.
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Kent Display sells a unique type of display. With a black background, it is a note taking pad that can replace pen and paper. Some versions allow saving the notes too. AT CES 2015, they introduced the latest version the Boogie Board 8.1 along with a transparent version aimed at children for fun and educational … Read more
E-Ink has launched a new technology aimed at designers and architiects. Not a “display” per se, it is a series of segments that can change color in response to a voltage but bonded to specialty glass to create a unique option for lobbies and other high impact spaces.
ODG (Osterhout Design Group) was in the Sands hallway at CES 2015 showing off its personal eyewear to enthusiastic crowds. This is a self contained tablet in set of personal eyewear. Mainly developed for professional use, the company will soon offer a lower cost consumer version as well.
MHL used CES 2015 to unveil a solution to providing video to an 8K display. Super MHL is a single cable solution that runs at 36 Gbps!
Steve Koenig is the CEA’s director of industry analysis and he presented a talk before the official start of CES. He began his time on-stage by asking which technologies are driving device sales? There are seven devices that dominate spending: smartphones; feature phones; tablets; digital cameras; LCD TVs; mobile PCs; and desktop PCs. Smartphones are … Read more
Hee-Jin Choi and his colleagues from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) have suggested a new method to show glasses-free 3D (autostereoscopic, or AS3D) on an LCD display. Existing AS3D displays effectively show two frames at once, offset from each other and with half the maximum resolution, to produce the 3D effect. Display … Read more
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