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Apple has launched a new upgrade to its popular iPad flagship tablet with a focus on the display, where Apple has added a new anti-reflective coating. The company claims its new retina class display in the iPad Air2 is 56% less reflective than previous generations. That should offer better ambient light viewing of the display. … Read more
3DIcon has met with members of the US Air Force to discuss uses of 3D visualisation technology. The talks focused on how 3D could be used to enhance and ease situational awareness and decision-making before and during a battle. The USA’s Battlespace Visualization Branch (RHCV) has been investigating stereoscopic 3D displays and 3DIcon says that … Read more
China’s Allwinner Technology has announced a new octa-core SoC for high-end set-top boxes and gaming devices. The H8 chip is based on TSMC’s 28nm process. It uses eight Cortex-A7 cores, running at up to 2GHz; all eight can be in operation at the same time. The GPU is a PowerVR SGX544 unit from Imagination Technologies, … Read more
OEMs are beginning to specifically ask for recycled plastic to use in an increasing number of new components, says the USA’s EPEAT. The organisation claims to have been a key driver in the move, which has seen the price of some ‘secondary’ resins exceed that of new resin. In related news, the Institute of Scrap … Read more
As TCO Development updates its TCO Certified criteria, older versions are phased out. Several documents will be retired in 2014: * TCO ’03 Displays FPD (1st December) * TCO ’06 Media Displays (30th November) * TCO Certified Displays 5 (including 5.2) (15th November) * TCO Certified Tablets 1 (1st November) Partners requiring new certification can … Read more
Evonik and the Holst Centre have been working on a new semiconductor technology called iXsenic S for the last two years. The soluble Oxide-TFT material is now being used in mass production by ‘a key customer’, combined with a slot-die coating process, at a fab in Asia. “Evonik has the best n-type soluble oxide semiconductors … Read more
The market for polarisers will reach 400 million m
Chinese TV vendors will place steady panel orders in Q4, say Asian sources. UltraHD TV sales in the country are regular and vendors will be stocking up for the Chinese New Year in Q1’15, after their reserves fell following the national holiday in October.
Sources says that TV sales in China during the country’s National Day holiday, at the start of October, were down between 3% and 5% YoY this year. The energy-saving subsidies that boosted sales in 2012 and 2013 have now ended. However, the sources said that UltraHD TVs had a penetration rate above 20%.
Ofcom has been working on techniques to use ‘white space’ spectrum since 2012 (Display Monitor Vol 18 No 48). The regulator will use the results of technology trials (currently ongoing at London Zoo: http://tinyurl.com/mv44esj) to determine whether there is any disruption to other frequency bands. Ofcom hopes to roll out white space technology across the … Read more
Google has unveiled the first Android TV (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 40) product: a streaming media player for films, music and videos, called the Nexus Player. Produced by Asus, the Player will also be an Android gaming device, working with a gamepad (available separately). Users will be able to continue to play the same … Read more
Sling Media and ViXS Systems have worked together on a new network transcoder, which uses Sling technology and a ViXS XCode 5190 chipset. The device can perform 2560 x 1440 to 1280 x 720 transcoding, to deliver four independent video feeds to four separate mobile devices. The transcoder is designed to work with both new … Read more
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