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After seven quarters of year on year declines, the Middle East and Africa PC market returned to growth in Q2, posting an increase in total shipments of 2.2% to 4.5 million units. According to research from IDC, the figures show growth in both the desktop and portable product categories, with the former growing 2.9% YoY … Read more
There was a 2% fall in tablet shipments in MEA between Q1’14 and Q2’14, according to IDC. As well as the expected fall due to the traditionally slow summer season and Ramadan, shipments were also affected by inventory build-up from Q1. Despite this, the region is still the fastest-growing in the world. Samsung retained first … Read more
Although we missed it at the time, we have heard about several new products demonstrated at Touch Taiwan last month by Sharp. They used metal mesh rather than ITO, a proprietary controller chip and procap touch. According to Japan’s Nikkei, Sharp showed an optically-bonded 70″ monitor, raising touch accuracy by eliminating the air gap. A … Read more
Sony has joined the Internet of Things standards body, the Allseen Alliance. Current ‘Premier’ members now include Panasonic, Sharp, Haier, Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Microsoft and LG. The Alliance aims to promote interoperability between connected devices, using the Alljoyn open-source software. Sony has not committed to using Alljoyn yet.
Display Daily – The ITU-R BT.2020 standard is the next-generation standard for broadcast and distribution. It is the defined format for both 4K (UHD-1) with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 and (in the distant future) 8K broadcast with a resolution of 7,680 x 4,320. The BT.2020 is a frame format, not a compression scheme. … Read more
Canon Germany has appointed Marco Gottschalk as the new marketing director for Canon’s consumer imaging group (CIG).
Christie has announced that George Walter has joined the company in the role of director, home entertainment, reporting to Tony Barton, senior director, Americas Sales. Walter most recently served as VP of home cinema for Digital Projection, where he launched and managed the company
Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 19), Bang & Olufsen launched its new Beovision Avant 55 TV: ‘The one that moves’. Designed to fade into the background of the room when not in use, the TV was B&O’s first UltraHD set. Now the Avant line is being expanded with the launch of a … Read more
Dell has unveiled a host of new laptops and a very interesting monitor, which goes beyond UltraHD. Part of Dell’s Ultrasharp line-up, the UP2715K is still under development – a full specification list has not been released. However, Dell has announced that the 27″ display has 5120 x 2880 resolution, or 218ppi. Because even DisplayPort … Read more
Lang AG has improved black levels on its Leyard LED displays. At ISE this year, the company showed the Leyard TV 1.9 LED display; now it has added the Leyard RTV 1.9 to its portfolio. Like the TV 1.9 product, RTV 1.9 has a 1.9mm pixel pitch and is intended for indoor use. Brightness is … Read more
NEC’s new generation of PA-series 3LCD projectors, for corporate and education use in medium and large venues, can be daisy-chained to create an UltraHD image. NEC claims that this feature is an industry first and is enabled through a screen splitter. The three projectors (PA521U (1920×1200), PA571W (1280×800) and PA621X (1024 x 768)) feature flexible … Read more
Optoma has lifted the embargo on a home cinema projector that we heard about in July, with a cinematic 24fps mode and a gaming mode that lowers response times and raises the contrast ratio. Optoma has built in a 1.5x optical zoom, +20 deg vertical lens shift and +/-40 deg keystone correction to assist installation. … Read more
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