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DuBravac Discusses Trends to Watch

by Tom Allen

Shawn Dubravac, CEA’s chief economist, discussed the themes presented in his new book, Digital Destiny, at an event before the CES Unveiled ‘mini show’. He said that there are five ‘pillars’ that form today’s …

Tags:CES 2015| Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Mobiles Keep Low Profile at CES

by Tom Allen

CES has come and gone again, leaving memories and sore feet in its wake. While there were several interesting display developments, some products were only noticeable through their absence. Before we get onto products, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 02

Acer Attempts to Kickstart Notebook Innovation

by Tom Allen

Unlike other tier one companies, Acer had taken a suite in The Cosmopolitan, with no presence on the show floor at all. We visited on Sunday, two days before CES officially began. Mobility was …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Acer| CES 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield

by Tom Allen

Razer always manages to surprise with its new CES products, and has won ‘Best in Show’ for the past four years running. This year was no different. Android TV was announced back in June (Display …

Tags:CES 2015| Game Controllers| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Razer| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Christie Acquires Coolux

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Left: Coolux Pandoras Box quad server. Right: Quad HD-SDI card I first became acquainted with Coolux Media Systems (Cologne Germany) as a major supplier of controllers to the Pro AV industry at last summer’s Rental and …

Tags:Blend & Warp| Christie| Large Display Monitor| Media Servers

ZTE Brings Auto Focus to Smart Projectors

by Tom Allen

ZTE USA, a subsidiary of ZTE Corporation (Shenzhen, China), announced its second generation mobile smart projector.  The Spro 2 is a follow-on unit to the initial smart projector announced by ZTE at CES 2014 and introduced by Sprint …

Tags:CES 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| Pico Projectors| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 03| ZTE

Acer Appoints New EMEA President

by Vanessa Browning

Acer has announced a reorganisation of its executive team, following the resignation of Luca Rossi from his position as president of Acer EMEA, after only six months in the job. Rossi will be replaced …

Tags:Acer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 22 - Issue 02

Samsung Profit to Fall First Time in 3 Years

by Vanessa Browning

Samsung has released its preliminary earnings guidance for the fourth quarter of the year and says it expects to report its first yearly fall in profit for three years.  Operating profit in the final …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung

AWE Adds Epson Projectors

by Helen Vince

Epson has appointed AWE Europe in the UK to distribute its range of home cinema projectors. The company’s offering wil include Epson’s EH-TW660W and EH-TW6600 projectors, as well as 3D home cinema projectors the EH-TW7200, …

Tags:Distributors| Epson| Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Philips UltraHD TV

Philips Goes All-Out With Android

by Tom Allen

Philips and US-licensee Funai share space in the Renaissance hotel, next to the Convention Centre. The companies were mostly gathering feedback on their products for the year. A major announcement by TP Vision (the …

Tags:CES 2015| Funai| Large Display Monitor| Laser| Mobile Display Monitor| Philips| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Birmingham Hippodrome

Birmingham Hippodrome Switches to Digital Signage

by Vanessa Browning

The Birmingham Hippodrome has converted its existing static signage into an LED solution. A 20m² LED display, back-lit lettering and light strips have been installed on the Hippodrome’s street sign. The project was managed …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

ViXS powers first 4K Ultra HD HEVC 10-Bit OTT media player

by Bob Raikes

Vixs was showing different tone mapping strategies for HDR contentViXS has had a good time recently as it has been ahead of most of its competition with UltraHD support in the XCode 6400. The …

Tags:CES 2015| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Streaming Video| ViXS| Vol 22 - Issue 03