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CEDIA Celebrates 25 Years

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The Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) is celebrating its 25th anniversary at CEDIA 2014 this month. Formed in Chicago in 1989, the group’s meetings soon moved to Las Vegas. Today, CEDIA takes …

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Cypress’ Controller Enables Slim Huawei Tablet

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The Mediapad X1 is Huawei’s 7″ tablet: the world’s thinnest, the company claims, at 7.18mm. USA-based Cypress Semiconductor says that the thin body is partly enabled by its Truetouch Gen5 TMA568 capacitive touchscreen controller. …

125 Years of Nintendo

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Nintendo has celebrated its 125th anniversary. From humble beginnings creating ‘Hanafuda’ playing cards in Kyoto in 1889, the company took 70 years to introduce the videogames that it is known for today. Arcade machines …

CES Unveiled Returns to Paris

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CES Unveiled Paris, now in its second year, will take place on 22nd October. Speakers will include the CEA’s Shawn DuBravac, Gary Shapiro and Karen Chupka; and panelists Jean-Luc Errant (Cityzen Sciences), Dominique Mocquard …

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Money to Burn? Consider Vertu’s Bentley Phone

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Luxury phone brand Vertu has partnered with car manufacturer Bentley to produce a new – and expensive – smartphone. For slightly less than the deposit on a small house (

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BenQ Brings Art to Life

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Four of BenQ’s W1080ST DLP projectors are being used in the ‘Apophany’ art installation in Brooklyn, New York. Designed by artist and filmmaker Carmen Osterlye, the video exhibit will run until the 18th November. …

Daktronics’ Displays Chosen for Baku Olympic Stadium

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Daktronics is providing a new LED super-system featuring two HD video displays to the Baku Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan. Each display will feature a 15HD pixel layout and measure 10.97 metres high by …

DivX Certifies MStar

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MStar’s HEVC TV SoC will be the first digital TV chip to receive DivX’s HEVC Certification. The Certification means that the SoC can playback HEVC UltraHD video using the DivX codec.

Apple and Samsung See Smartphone Success

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Apple has revealed that 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units were sold during the smartphone’s launch weekend. Samsung also enjoyed a minor celebration recently, having sold the 1 millionth Galaxy S5 smartphone …

Colour TVs Now 63 Years Old

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The last week of September – the 28th, to be precise – marked the 63rd anniversary of colour TVs arriving in US stores. The first model was the CBS-Columbia – produced partly because the …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Buy BenQ, Support Fight Against Cancer

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BenQ America will donate $10 to Breast Cancer Awareness for every HT1075 projector sold in October. The campaign is part of the ‘BenQ Cares’ programme.

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Cineplanet Selects Barco

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Barco has supplied digital cinema projectors to the Cineplanet chain’s 200+ locations across Latin America. Local distributor and integrator Bardan Cinema assisted with the rollout. A variety of projectors were used, from the DP2K-10SX …