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Irystec Gets Funding

by Bob Raikes

We recently reported on Irystec, which has developed technology to better match display output to individuals’ vision, and now the company has said that it has successfully closed Series-A financing with investments from BDC …

Tags:Financial Data| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Visual Quality| Vol 23 - Issue 40

New Technology Area Round Up

by Bob Raikes

This reporter always enjoy the future technology area at IBC and I often save up visits to the end of a long day. If I get around the ‘moodily-lit STBs’, to quote Paul Gray …

BCom Converts Between SDR and HDR

by Bob Raikes

B<>Com is a French technology institute, based in the high tech area of Rennes (in the same suburb as Technicolor’s R&D facility), with satellite sites in Lannion and Brest, also in Brittany. It has …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

And finally….

by Bob Raikes

Well, it wasn’t April Fools day, but we doubt, anyway whether anybody would have actually been fooled into attacking their iPhone as shown in this video. (Funnily enough, because of a defect in my …

Tags:Back Panel| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Not Enough Capacity for Flexible G6

by Milos Pavlovic

The ChosunBiz in Korea has reported that a senior LG manager has promised “I will not repeat this mistake” with the next smartphone, the G6, after disappointing sales of the G5, which had modular …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

BlackBerry To Drop Smartphone Design and Build

by Bob Raikes

Blackberry has said that it no longer plans to make its own handsets, as we suggested after comments in early August. (Blackberry Moves Towards Pure Software) Unique products will continue to be offered, but …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Xiaomi Top of the Range Phone is Only FullHD

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has launched new smartphones at the top of its range. The Mi 5s has a 5.15″ FullHD pixel IPS display driven by a Snapdragon 821 CPU and with 3GB (+64GB flash) or 4GB …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 38| Xiaomi

Sharp Repurchases Offices

by Yvette Raikes

Sharp sold some of its premises in 2015 when business took a downturn. However, Foxconn chairman Terry Guo and Sharp president Dai Cheng-wu have made good on their promise to buy back the old …

Foxconn to Make Phones for OnePlus3 in India

by Milos Pavlovic

The Commercial Times in Taiwan has revealed that Foxconn Electronics will begin to manufacture OnePlus 3 in India beginning Q416.

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| India| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Apple iPhone Orders Rise

by Yvette Raikes

According to Digitimes, Apple’s order for iPhone parts and components for Q4 2016 are between 20% and 30% higher than expected. Touch panel orders have been shared between TPK and GIS, but order fulfillment …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Globo Launches 4K HDR VOD

by Yvette Raikes

Latin American commercial TV network, Globo, is using ATEME’s Titan to run its 4K HDR VOD offering, the first in Brazil. Content with UHD resolution is available on Globo’s OTT multi-screen platform, which includes …

UniPixel Makes 23rd Design Win of 2016

by Isaac Oburu

Unipixel has announced that its technology will be used on a 14 inch consumer market laptop, the 23rd design win of 2016, it said, and the seventh on a consumer product. UniPixel’s XTouch touchscreen …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| Unipixel| Vol 23 - Issue 38