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Analyst Calls Playstation Vue “Dead on Arrival”

by Tom Allen

TDG analyst Joel Espelien has called Sony’s Playstation Vue streaming service, launched in the USA recently, “dead on arrival”. According to Espelien, the service was “well-intentioned” in development, but is out of touch with …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| sony| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Comcast Time Warner Merger Delayed to Mid-2015

by Helen Vince

Comcast says that the closure of its acquisition of Time Warner Cable has been delayed to the middle of 2015, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated that it needed more time to conduct …

LG Renews John Lewis Partnership

by Tom Allen

UK retailer John Lewis entered into a partnership with LG to produce an own-brand TV last year: the JL9000 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 18). The successor model, the JL9100, has now been announced. …

Celebrating 90 Years of TV

by Tom Allen

Baird’s TV only had 30 lines of vertical resolutionJohn Logie Baird – the inventor of the television set – showed off his creation in London, 90 years ago. The original box was a gimmick …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Asus Adds Spanish Distributor

by Helen Vince

Asus has added Informatica Megasur as notebook distributor in Spain.

Tags:Asus| Distributors| Large Display Monitor| Spain| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Medium UK Expands with AOPEN

by Helen Vince

AV distributor Medium UK has expanded its offering with the full range of digital signage media players manufactured by AOPEN. The partnership adds to Medium’s existing portfolio of large format displays and connectivity products.

Tags:Distributors| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 22 - Issue 13

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 14

by Tom Allen

A man has fixed his dead laptop by baking it in an oven. Sean Buckley, writing for Gizmodo, fixed his device following a recipe from the world’s greatest cookbook: the internet. The actual problem …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Asahi Glass to Expand PVC Production in Vietnam

by Tom Allen

Asahi Glass will expand its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) capacity at a local subsidiary in Vietnam by 50% by early 2016. Annual capacity will reach 150,000 tons. In addition, the Vietnamese unit will increase procurement …

Tags:APAC| Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 13

OPS Option Transforms Elo’s Monitor

by Tom Allen

The 69.5″ 7001LT is Elo’s new large-format multi-touch display, for retail, hospitality, real estate, education and other commercial applications. To facilitate use in commercial environments, the unit is slim (94mm), complying with the American …

SBB Expands Digitisation Plans

by Tom Allen

SBB, the Swiss railway operator, has expanded its digitisation project (SBB Invests CHF15 Million in LED Displays) and revealed the name of the display supplier. Rather than 44 LED displays, SBB now intends to …

Tags:Daktronics| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Switzerland| Vol 22 - Issue 13

New Process Lowers 1,000x Cost Difference of Gallium Arsenide

by Tom Allen

Stanford University researchers have developed a new manufacturing process for gallium arsenide – a semiconductor material that is faster than silicon, but around 1,000 times more expensive to work with. Smartphones already use gallium …

VR Motion Sickness Countered – With a Fake Nose

by Tom Allen

An undergraduate at Purdue University in the USA has suggested a way to counter the ‘motion sickness of virtual reality’ by programming in a virtual nose. Motion sickness occurs when you see motion with …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 13