Vol 21 – Issue 41 – Page 4

HP Chooses Different Panel for Large Envy-Line

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HP’s Envy 32 is one of the first Envy-line products to use a VA panel; IPS and TN are more common. Sound is a focus of the 32″ monitor, with dual 6W front-facing Beats …

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Subsidy End Hurts TV Sales in China

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Sources says that TV sales in China during the country’s National Day holiday, at the start of October, were down between 3% and 5% YoY this year. The energy-saving subsidies that boosted sales in …

Dell Boosts Laptop Speeds for Gamers

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Dell’s Alienware brand targets gamers: an audience emphasised by the new Alienware 18 laptop. Overclocked to 4.4GHz (Intel Core i7 Haswell processor), the product runs very quickly. A new thermal solution (copper heatsinks and …

Gartner: 90% of Mobiles Will be Smartphones by 2018

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Tablet growth has slowed enough this year that these products will represent 9.5% of all devices worldwide. Consumers are looking at alternative devices like hybrids and phablets, as well as holding on to their …

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Christie Supplies Korea’s Largest Multiplex

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Korea’s new Lotte Cinema World Tower, in Seoul, is the country’s largest multiplex, with 21 screens and 4,600 seats – and multiple Christie cinema products. These include Solaria-series projectors (CP2215, CP2220, CP2230 and CP4230); …

Sharp Has Lots to Show

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Sharp started off by showing us its new 70″ UltraHD monitor, the tentatively named PN-H701 which supports HDMI2.0 and produces 700cd/m

Iiyama’s FPD Built for Conferencing and Signage

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Iiyama Prolite series is designed for professional use, so the new 65″ LH6564S can be used in video conferencing or digital signage. Using a VA panel, contrast is high enough (4,000:1) for the display …

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Ofcom Trials White Space Ahead of 2015 Deployment

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Ofcom has been working on techniques to use ‘white space’ spectrum since 2012 (Display Monitor Vol 18 No 48). The regulator will use the results of technology trials (currently ongoing at London Zoo: http://tinyurl.com/mv44esj) …

Amazon Chooses Mediatek for Fire HD

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Amazon’s new Fire HD tablets use Mediatek processors, it has been announced. The Fire HD 6, Fire HD 7 and Fire HD Kids Edition (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37) use the MT8135 SoC …

Google’s New Nexus Devices Feature Android L – for Lollipop

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Details about Google’s Nexus 6 smartphone were heavily leaked before it was officially announced this month. Even in March (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9), rumours were appearing online. Now we can see that …

Coretronic Shipped 26 Million BLUs Last Month

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Coretronic’s revenue for last month slipped 5.2% from August to just over NT$7 billion ($230.2 million), though this was 9.1% higher than September last year. Sales for the third quarter grew 3% from Q2 …

Silicon Core Scores a World First

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There were two big topics for us when we met up with US small pitch LED specialist, SiliconCore Technology (SCT). The company said that it would show the world’s first 1.2mm LED display, but …