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Entatech Goes into Administration

by Bob Raikes

UK distributor, Entatech, has gone into administration after a buyer, Beta, pulled out of a deal to buy the company for a nominal sum at the last minute. Beta said that some issues had …

Merck To Promote LCD, OLED and More at SID

by Bob Raikes

Merck has previewed what it will be talking about at SID. The company said that it will show its ultra-brightness fringe field switching (UB-FFS) technology which it says is growing in share in its …

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Klitschko/Joshua Video Available on Sky VR App

by Bob Raikes

Sky in the UK has created a 12 minute VR film of the world heavyweight boxing match between Vitali Klitschko and Anthony Joshua. The film was captured with eight special VR cameras by Sky’s …

Baggage Losses Reduced

by Bob Raikes

Rimowa’s E Ink-based label. Image:MekoAlthough it’s not much consolation if it’s your bag that has been mislaid, but there was a 12.5% drop in the number of bags that was lost last year – …

Pay-TV to Represent 90% of Global Video Media Services in 2017

by Alan Spencer

Gartner is predicting that global spending on consumer video media services will total $314 billion in 2017, which is a 4.2% rise compared to 2016. Pay-TV services will be the largest spending segment and …

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Facebook Shuts Oculus Content Division

by Bob Raikes

Facebook is shutting the Oculus Story Studio which was set up to create VR content and the company has said that it will concentrate instead on financing and promoting external VR content development. 50 …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Apple Changes Watch Warranties

by Bob Raikes

Apple has acknowledged a problem with its first generation Apple Watch by extending the warranty by a year because of a ‘swelling battery’. This can get so bad that the display is pushed away …

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Teledyne LeCroy Quantumdata 980 Has DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3 module

by Bob Raikes

Teledyne LeCroy has announced a new DisplayPort 1.4 Video Generator & Protocol Analyzer Module that supports HBR3 to support up to 8.1 Gbps data rates on up to four lanes. The module fits the …

Tags:DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Test Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 18

New ICDM Test Pattern Group Formed

by Bob Raikes

The ICDM has formed a new group to develop new test patterns. Although the group has had static tests in PNG format for some time, the decision has been made to develop some video …

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Arrow Electronics Result 08/05/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced its 2017 Q1 result with net sales of $5.7 billion and $113.7 million profit, resulting in a net profit margin of 2%. The net sales increased by 5% on a …

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Immersion Corp Result 04/05/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Immersion Corp announced FY17 Q1 result with total revenues of $9.2 million and a net loss of $12.9 million. The revenue saw a decrease of 32% compared to $13.6 million in FY16 Q1 on …

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AUO Looks for 1 Million OLEDs per Month

by Bob Raikes

AUO reports that it is to ship its 1.2″ and 1.4″ OLEDs for smartphones to nine different brands beginning in Q2 2017 and has said that it expects volumes to get to a million …

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