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NEC has announced the winners of the 2014/15 Display Trends Forum partner awards in Cannes. The company awarded Best Volume Distributor to Ingram Micro (Germany); Best Projector Sales to Midwich (UK); Strongest AV partner of the Year to Datavision (Germany); Best Achievement in the Education Sector to Ligraand Know K (Italy); Best Vertical Project to … Read more
According to Android Authority, LG is developing a G Flex 2 smartphone to be shown at CES 2015. The handset will have a high-resolution display, using a plastic-based OLED. It will have a smaller form factor than the original, and be more flexible. A ‘self-healing’ plastic coating, a feature of the original G Flex, will … Read more
A new display color accuracy metric was developed by DisplayMate and used by the lab, to help identify the mobile display panel with the best absolute color accuracy. The lab made famous by its Industry Display Shoot-Outs, tested AMOLED and LCD display panels from a field of the Top Six Mobile Display Devices and identified … Read more
Nimble VR (San Francisco, CA) is developing a depth sensing camera that captures the user’s hand and finger positions and motions such that they can be input to a virtual reality headset. Called, Nimble Sense, the system enables applications that allow the user to control and manipulate virtual objects and to do so without the … Read more
Kyocera’s new 7″ TFT-LCD display modules both feature capacitive on-cell touch, and are only differentiated from each other in the touch interface. The TCG070W VLRPC-GD117 addresses touch via I²C, while the TCG070W VLRPC-GD118 addresses via USB. Both modules feature five touch points and shielded cables, but no front glass. They are designed for lightweight applications … Read more
A total of 22.3 million large panels were shipped in November, from Taiwan’s four major panel manufacturers. This was just under 1% lower than the previous month but represented a year on year improvement of 5.2%. The total number of panels shipped so far this year from Taiwan was 239.8 million, a 2% increase from … Read more
Since 2012, Display Central has published roughly 60 articles that discuss the Oculus Rift. I’ve reviewed most of them and not one of them mentions the terrible image quality produced by the head mounted virtual reality (VR) system. A more common type of headline is “Oculus Rift at SXSW: Is Virtual Reality the Holy Grail … Read more
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has been hailed as 2014’s success story. Since launching its first device, the OnePlus One, in April, more than 500,000 units have been sold, co-founder Carl Pei told Forbes. These sales were achieved with an advertising budget of just $300! OnePlus aims to break 1 million sales by the end of … Read more
MediacityUK is a building in Manchester, owned by Peel Media. The company recently chose to use Optoma’s EH200ST projector in all of the location’s meeting rooms. The unit was chosen due to its wireless connectivity, brightness and short-throw lens.
ViXS has announced that its XCode 6400 decoder is being used in Panasonic’s new AX800 UltraHD TVs.
Panasonic Corporation saw net profit in the second quarter fall 30% to ¥43 billion ($375 million) from ¥61.5 billion ($536.7 million) in Q2 of last year, while turnover for the quarter was flat year on year at ¥1.8 trillion ($15.7 billion). The company’s net profit in the first six months more than halved from a … Read more
Parks Associates expects smartwatches and connected entertainment devices (including games consoles and streaming media players) to be among the most popular gifts given in the USA this Christmas. The trend will echo one seen across the rest of 2014, where 37% of smartwatches, 25% of streaming media devices and 20% of games consoles were received … Read more
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