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Panasonic Produces ‘World’s First’ Rugged Hybrid

by Tom Allen

A fully rugged, convertible laptop has been introduced by Panasonic – which says that it is the world’s first such unit. The Toughbook 20 features the reliability of the Toughbook brand and the flexibility …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Rugged Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Vodafone Plans UK TV Service in 2016

by Tom Allen

Vodafone has announced plans to launch a TV service in the UK by March next year – the end of its 2016 financial year. The company recently reported that it had 9.2 million TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vodafone| Vol 22 - Issue 45

HP Inc Delivers Native 4k Thin Client

by Tom Allen

HP Inc. has announced a thin client with a difference: native UltraHD resolution support. Up to four displays can be driven at UltraHD, using the four DisplayPort outputs on the T730 thin client. With …

Tags:HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Thin Clients| Vol 22 - Issue 45

US Coast Guard Chooses Daisy

by Tom Allen

The US Coast Guard has chosen to purchase flat panel displays from Daisy Data Displays, because of their compatibility with night-vision goggles. The displays, which have a night-vision imaging system, will be used in …

Tags:Avionics| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 45

BLU Shipments Fall at Coretronic

by Tom Allen

Coretronic has said that it shipped 5.6 million backlight units (BLUs) in October: an 11% MoM fall. From January to October, the company shipped 61.6 million units, a 21% fall. Coretronic expects Q4 shipments …

Tags:Coretronic| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Vol 22 - Issue 45

auo

UltraHD TVs Continue to Rise

by Tom Allen

AUO estimates that UltraHD TV sales have reached around 16 million units so far this year, and will end 2015 at 24 million sets due to end-of-year demand in the USA and Europe. More …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 45

SFR and Nagra Launch UltraHD in France

by Tom Allen

French pay-TV operator SFR has launched a new UltraHD service, with Nagra. ‘La Box Fibre Zive de SFR’ uses Nagra’s content protection system on its multimedia home gateway, and Medialive multiscreen and video player …

Tags:4k| France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 45

TiVo Reaches International Milestone

by Tom Allen

TiVo has passed 4 million international subscribers to its “traditional” Tivo offering.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tivo| Vol 22 - Issue 45| Worldwide

Time Warner Cable Begins IPTV Trial

by Tom Allen

Time Warner Cable has begun a Roku trial in New York – its first IP-only video trial. Participants will be able to access TWC’s video service, through its own network, using a Roku Streaming …

Tags:IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| STBs| Time Warner| Vol 22 - Issue 45

RIP CEA! Long Live CTA!

by Norbert Hildebrand

The biggest news at CES Unveiled in New York was the new name the CEA is using from now on. Gone is the ‘Consumer Electronic Association’ with the new name being CTA (Consumer Technology …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Adaptor Fools a Mac to Work Headlessly

by Tom Allen

An interesting product, aimed at users of ‘headless’ Mac systems, has been released by US-based Newertech. The HDMI Headless Video Accelerator plugs into a Mac Mini’s HDMI port to fool the computer into thinking …

Tags:Apple| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Lumii Wins Grant for Light Field Technology

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Lumii Inc. (http://www.lumiidisplay.com/), a start-up spin-out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was one of 26 winners of seed money from the MassChallenge (http://masschallenge.org/). The MassChallenge organization’s goal is to encourage startups and …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Large Display Monitor| MIT| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 45