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Vodafone Takes TV From Netrange

by Tom Allen

Vodafone TV customers in Germany can now use Netrange’s smart TV portal.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Vodafone| Vol 22 - Issue 34

IMDs and PIDs are More Positive than DTMs in Europe

by Bob Raikes

This week, while creating this issue of the newsletter, I was also involved with the finalising of our quarterly data for desktop monitors, public displays and interactive meeting room displays. The markets are very …

EU Dismisses Innolux’s Appeal in Cartel Case

by Helen Vince

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed an appeal from Innolux against the $288 million fine imposed on the company for taking part in the LCD price fixing scandal. Innolux was originally fined …

Tags:Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Price Fixing| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Gaming Features Abound on Asus’ MG278Q

by Tom Allen

The MG278Q is a 27″ LCD monitor for gamers, produced by Asus. As well as a fast (1ms) response time and refresh rate (144Hz), the display uses AMD’s Freesync anti-tearing technology. To care for …

Tags:Asus| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 34

Korean Makers Slash TV Prices

by Tom Allen

Samsung is cutting the prices of its newest TVs – by up to thousands of dollars, in some cases. Shortly after the news was shared, LG responded with cuts of its own, to its …

Three 60Hz UltraHD Displays, Powered by Skylake?

by Tom Allen

PC World claims that Intel will release the first of its Skylake chips in early September. According to the rumours, these chips will feature fixed-function support for UltraHD video rendering in hardware, as well …

Gloom in the European Monitor Market

by Bob Raikes

The Desktop Monitor market in Europe was down in Q2 with sales down 14% on last year as the market in Russia failed to recover after a terrible Q1. Germany was also down and …

Lenovo UK Names New Channel Head

by Helen Vince

Lenovo has hired Andy Bass as the company’s new director of channel and SMB in the UK and Ireland. Bass is set to take over the role from 1st September, having spent the last …

IHS Focuses on HD at FPD Conference

by Tom Allen

IHS will hold its annual US FPD conference at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, California on 14th and 15th September this year. This year’s event will focus on the latest trends in …

Christie Claims First UST Laser Projector

by Tom Allen

Christie has introduced its ‘Captiva’ series – apparently the world’s first solid-state projectors with an ultra-short throw ratio and more than 3,000 lumens of brightness. First seen at Infocomm this year, the DHD400S (1920 …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| NEC| Vol 21 - Issue 34

Siggraph 2015 Roundup 009

by Steve Sechrist

KIST hand gesture recognition softwareThe Korean Institute of Science and Technology‘s (KIST) Imaging Media Research Centre was showing off its latest generation of hand gesture recognition. This used a 3D sculpting system to create …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Siggraph 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 33

Computer Vision With SMI

by Steve Sechrist

Epson’s AR Glasses at Siggraph with integrated eye-tracking from SMI. Note the (rather) large brick required to process the data. It’s fine for industry but the company will have to migrate this to a …