Vol 21 - Issue 45

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Sony Brightens Meeting- and Classrooms

by Raverstead

Sony’s C-Series has been expanded with three new projectors, scheduled to be launched in January. The VPL-CW276, VPL-CW256 and VPL-CX236 are 3LCD units for education and business use. Each of the new models has …

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Consent Granted for New A40 Towers

by Raverstead

Wildstone, in the UK, has been granted planning consent for two new double-sided towers with LED displays. The towers will be constructed at Greenford Roundabout on the A40 (West London), with a tender in …

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Larger Size Expands MultiQ’s True-Flat Series

by Raverstead

MultiQ’s True-Flat series has, in the past, been limited to models up to 19″ in size. The company has now expanded this offering with a 21.5″ monitor, which can be used in multiple applications. …

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Imagination Scales From 16 to 512 Cores

by Raverstead

New GPU IP has been introduced by Imagination Technologies. PowerVR Series7 range from 16 to 32 (Series7XE) and up to 512 (Series7XT) arithmetic logic unit (ALU) cores. The GPUs feature full hardware virrtualisation and …

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BLU Shipments for January-October Rise

by Raverstead

Coretronic shipped 8.2 million backlight units (BLUs) in October, 9% down on September but helping to bring shipments so far this year to 77.7 million units, 25% higher year on year. By application, Coretronic …

Tags:Coretronic| DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 45

End-of-Year Sales Will be “Critical” For UltraHD

by Raverstead

The UltraHD format is driving flat-panel TV sales this year, with revenue in the USA rising 7% YoY, to $668 million, as of the 25th October. Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, which shared …

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Mediatek’s October Sales at All Time High

by Raverstead

Mediatek hit a new sales high last month, with sales increasing 16.5% sequentially to NT$21.6 billion ($706.6 million), a monthly record. October’s result helped Mediatek to achieve a 62.7% increase in sales for the …

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Director Calls for Stop to Motion Interpolation

by Raverstead

Director Reed Morano has begun a petition on Change.org (http://tinyurl.com/ntvnw97) to get TV manufacturers to get rid of motion interpolation (or at least to offer TVs with the option off by default). Interpolation is …

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LG Display Pushes OLED TV Panels Forward

by Raverstead

LG Display will ramp up its M2 OLED TV panel line next month, according to a report in South Korea’s ET News quoted in English on November 11 by Amy Fan and Alex Wolfgram …

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New Brands Join TCO

by Raverstead

European brands, MLS Multimedia and Vecom, have joined TCO Certified. MLS is a Greek company, which has certified its E550 notebook to the TCO Certified Notebooks approval level. Russia’s Vecom has certified its EM2331WIV …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TCO Development| Testing| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Electronica 2014 Roundup

by Raverstead

An Internet-of-Things gateway with Intel’s Quark technology was on show by Aaeon. The AIOT-X1000 was announced at Computex earlier this year. It runs on an SoC with a 32-bit single-core, single-thread Pentium instruction set …

Tags:Electronica 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Renesas| Samsung| toshiba| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Canatu Shows 3D Capacitive Touch Film

by Raverstead

Canatu will present its transparent conductive carbon nanotube (CNB) In-Mold Film at Printed Electronics USA (19th – 20th November in Santa Clara, CA). The In-Mold film is optimised for 3D-formed capacitive touch displays and …

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