Vol 21 – Issue 40 – Page 12

Tesco Raises Specs and Price

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Tesco’s Hudl2 tablet, successor to last year’s Hudl (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 37), features a larger screen – but correspondingly higher price. A deeper integration with Tesco services comes with Blinkbox and My …

Optoma Showcase Adds New Partners

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The Optoma Showcase, at Silverstone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 33), will also see other companies displaying their solutions. As well as Optoma and Texas Instruments, Green Hippo, Harman’s AMX and Projection Artworks will …

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Media Broadcast Begins -T2 Trial

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German DTT operator Media Broadcast spoke out in support of the DVB-T2 platform in June this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 23). The company has now launched a pilot project to test -T2 …

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Siliconcore Brings 1.2mm LED to Infocomm

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Siliconcore will launch a new high-resolution LED display at Infocomm MEA, running from the 13th-16th October in Dubai: the Lavender 1.2mm. With a viewing distance of less than 1m, the Lavender 1.2mm can show …

SMPTE Webcasts Look to Content Delivery and Compression

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Educational webcasts will be run by the SMPTE through the end of November, including one by our own Pete Putman! The subject will be ‘Next Generation Display Interfaces’ (30th November, 5pm UTC), examining the …

Oculus CEO Hints at 2015 Rift Release

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In an interview with Bloomberg, Oculus VR founder and CEO Brendan Iribe has hinted that the Oculus Rift might (finally) reach consumers next year. Iribe said that the Rift will be available “pretty soon… …

Corning Receives BMW Recognition

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BMW has presented its Supplier Innovation Award to Corning, for its ‘Gorilla Glass for Automotive’ product. BMW uses the glass in its i8 vehicle.

Longshine Shows First Hybrid Smartwatch

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Longshine Technologies, a Chinese ODM, has developed a product that marries the analogue and digital worlds. The circular Halo smartwatch has an analogue face and transparent OLED touchscreen. Currently in the prototype stage, the …

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Skyworth Takes Hillcrest

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Yet another TV platform has signed up to use Hillcrest’s gesture control technology. China’s Skyworth has joined TCL, Lenovo, LG, Hisense and Roku in using the Freespace Motion Engine technology.

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Orange Signs Netflix Agreement

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Orange will offer Netflix on its set-top boxes in France from November. Orange has more than 10 million subscribers, so the deal would be a significant boost for the newly-launched service.

Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 0.5% in Q3

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Worldwide PC shipments reached 79.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014, a 0.5% decline from Q3 of last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. For the first time, the sum of …

AUO Sees Slow Sales in September

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AU Optronics (AUO) saw its monthly sales fall 3.5% year on year in September to NT$35.6 billion ($1.1 billion) taking sales in the first nine months of the year to NT$302.7 billion ($9.9 billion), …