IFA Roundup
IFA 2014 was the show’s 90th anniversary. The total area of the event was up 3% from 2013, with the adoption of the CityCube Berlin; an expansion that added an extra 12,000m
Barco Celebrates HDBaseT Entry
Barco plans to demonstrate its new Orion Cinemascope home projector – an HDBaseT model to mark the company’s entry into the HDBaseT Alliance. The Orion Cinemascope combines 2560 x 1080 resolution, a 1DLP chip, 3D and high framerates (Barco did not provide an exact figure). It is a lamp-based model that can be positioned up … Read more
Epson Learns From JVC With New Laser Model
We were told at IFA that Epson would be launching a very high-end laser projector at CEDIA, and details were made available just before the show began. It turned out that our source had left out a bit of information – there were two projectors, it turned out! The Powerlite Pro Cinema LS10000 is a … Read more
AT Computers Adds AOC
AT Computers in the Czech Republic is now distributing AOC monitors.
Retail Sales in August Best Since January
According to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, UK retail sales last month were up 1.3% on a like-for-like basis from August 2013 and 2.7% on a total basis, the best performance since January. Online sales of non-food products in the UK grew 19.8% in August compared to a year earlier, the highest online growth … Read more
ARM Expands 64-Bit Processing With 50th License
Demand has been growing for ARM’s 64-bit v8-A processors, the company has said. It has recently signed its 50th licensing agreement to produce chips based on the architecture. The licences, with 27 partners, are said to be for tablet, smartphone and enterprise chips.
Imagination Designs New MIPS for Android L
Imagination Technologies has refreshed the ageing MIPS architecture with a new 64-bit processor, the MIPS I6400. It is a multi-core SoC with integrated graphics and simultaneous multithreading; up to four threads per core, simultaneously, supporting clusters of up to six cores. The firm says that this design enables each core in a cluster to possess … Read more
Google Preparing for Android One?
A launch of Google’s Android One initiative, which aims to unify the fragmented OS in entry-level smartphones, may be approaching. Invitations have been sent to an event in India on 15th September. Google has three confirmed vendor partners in the country (Micromax, Karbonn and Spice). Combine that with the fact that Android One is aimed … Read more
Nigeria Details ASO Requirements
Nigeria will need about 40 million DTT receivers to successfully move to digital broadcasting, said the company’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). It will also require ‘at least’ NGN60 billion ($368.6 million). Display Daily Comments The NBC recently committed to a June 2015 ASO date (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34). (TA)
Digital TV Labs’ Test Suite Checks Compliance
Digital TV Labs is launching products designed to accelerate the development and deployment of UltraHD HEVC services. The organisation’s HEVC for DVB Test Suite enables SoC, STB and TV vendors to check their products’ compliance with the Phase 1 UltraHD specifications (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 28). It can also be used to check whether … Read more
WiGig Enables Dual ‘UltraHD’ Displays
DisplayLink has demonstrated the use of dual ‘UltraHD’ (DisplayLink says that the resolution was 3098 x 2160) displays being operated over a 60GHz WiGig connection. Taking place at the Intel Developer Forum, the demo used a WiGig-integrated notebook and a WiGig docking station connected to two UltraHD DisplayLink USB Graphics adapters. The adapters enabled the … Read more
