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4k – Amazon today announced that Prime members and all customers can now instantly enjoy blockbuster movies, hit TV shows and Amazon Original Series, in Ultra HD picture quality—a premium resolution that has four times the number of pixels as standard full HD. Ultra HD movies and TV shows are accessible through the Amazon Instant … Read more
4K – Consumer awareness of Ultra HD or 4K TV is growing steadily, and 93 percent of those who have seen the technology found it extremely or somewhat impressive. These are some of the key findings from the latest wave of Strategy Analytics’ ConsumerMetrix survey, which conducted online interviews with 2001 US participants in November 2014. The … Read more
Simulation & Training – The US Army recently purchased 300 new licenses of MetaVR visuals for embedded training in its Universal Ground Control Stations and for Institutional Mission Simulators. The Army uses MetaVR Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG) for simulated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) camera payload video for Shadow, Grey Eagle, Aerosonde and Hunter unmanned aerial … Read more
TV – Analysts are always looking for inflection points – moments when lines on charts start to move in different directions.I spotted a couple in the last week. The Asus NX500 uses QDs to deliver a wide colour gamut A small one, probably, was the first notebook to use Quantum Dots, the Asus NX500. A prototype of … Read more
eD’system in the Czech Republic has started distributing Epson’s Moverio BT-200 smart glasses.
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) posted a 4.2% decline in sales last month to NT$4.4 billion ($144.5 million), which was 12.9% lower than September 2013. Sales from January to September reached NT$42.2 billion ($1.4 billion), down 2.3% from the same period of last year. CPT shipped 135,000 large panels, up 3.1% from August but down 2.2% … Read more
Wearables – Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung) announced that the Samsung Gear™ VR Innovator Edition powered by Oculus is now available in the U.S. Using the Galaxy Note® 4, Gear VR Innovator Edition gives content creators and VR enthusiasts a chance to get their hands on the first low persistence virtual reality experience powered by … Read more
Market Intelligence – Mobile devices are increasingly becoming the first go-to device for communications and content consumption, according to Gartner, Inc. In the emerging economies, users are adopting smartphones as their exclusive mobile devices while in developed economies, multi-device households are becoming the norm, with tablets growing at the fastest rate of any computing device. … Read more
Wearables – There is a coming age of sensors just around the corner, if you are a believer in the technology wave set to take over consumer electronics beginning (you guessed it) NOW. And that would mean we will see an army of new products, to add to the group already launched, at the upcoming CES … Read more
3D in Education – 3D continues to be a topic of interest at national and regional STEM conferences. (STEM is an acronym for [applied] science, technology, engineering and math.) On that note, I recently attended the recent STEMtech 2014 conference in Denver (CO) and my hopes for latching onto some suitable educational 3D content and happenings were not disappointed. … Read more
Broadcast & Distribution – Hardware manufacturers and standards developers have often clashed when it comes to inter-compatibility and longevity of solutions. Once a solution takes hold in the marketplace, it can be very difficult to evolve to better platforms if it requires consumers to replace expensive hardware. Courtesy, xkcd. Licensed under Creative Commons. Years ago, when a color … Read more
Eye Airports is to launch an £8 million ($12.8 million) investment in advertising media and technology across its UK airport network. Gatwick North and South terminals will benefit from new digital welcome and terminal displays, as well as a refresh of current screens. 4mm-pitch LED units will be installed as part of the work. Mobile … Read more
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