Vol 21 – Issue 45 – Page 7

Accell Extends Tablet on Desktops with DisplayPort

by Raverstead

Accell’s new interface hubs support DisplayPort’s multi-stream transport (MST) enabling independent monitor control and the support of high-resolution graphics. The UltraAV DisplayPort 1.2 to 2 DisplayPort Multi-Display MST Hub and Mini DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Display …

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Customer Engagement World Explored Latest Trends in DooH Advertising

by Raverstead

We recently visited Customer Engagement World, which took place in New York from November 5-6 2014 where we saw a demonstration of the latest 3D motion capture technology from Israeli company, Extreme Reality. Extreme …

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Hannstar Falters in October

by Raverstead

Hannstar Display achieved a 7.2% month on month increase in sales in October, though year on year sales of NT$2.1 billion ($68.6 million) represented a 12.9% decline. October’s result brought sales for the period …

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Ivory Coast Bans Analogue TVs

by Raverstead

The Ivory Coast has banned analogue TV imports, sales and marketing. The move has come as the country attempts to meet the ITU’s 17th June 2015 deadline to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting.

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Haptics in Hand at TGM 2014

by Raverstead

Haptic technology was a tangible component of TGM. Haptics presentations were offered by Tactus Technology, Novasentis, Aito, and Tangible Haptics. Tactus Technology continues its push toward a product launch with its manufacturing partner Wystron …

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TCL’s LCD TV Sales Up 11%

by Raverstead

TCL Multimedia saw LCD TV sales rise 10.7% in October from the same period last year. Sales of smart TVs increased 30.2%. In TCL’s home market of China, the company’s sales volume fell 9.8% …

JCDecaux and Estée Lauder Paint Paris Red

by Raverstead

Estée Lauder and JCDecaux worked together on a signage campaign in Paris recently. Passers-by could play a slot machine-style game on interactive screens, installed at three bus shelters in the city, to win lipsticks …

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Samsung Shows 95″ FHD Display at DPAA

by Raverstead

Samsung had a small exhibition space at the DPAA Video Everywhere conference and was showing a 10″ and a 95″ LED LCD as the company’s smallest and largest offering in the professional display space. …

Acer Names Head of Notebook Business Group

by Raverstead

Acer has promoted Jerry Kao to president of the company’s notebook business group. He currently serves as general manager of the group, which he co-heads with Jackson Lin, president.

Hon Hai Posts 22% Jump in Sales

by Raverstead

Hon Hai Precision (which trades as Foxconn Electronics) grew sales in October by 22.6% year on year to NT$469 billion ($15.3 billion), bringing sales for January to October to NT$3.2 trillion ($104.6 billion), 5.8% …

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PMA Research Moves Into FPD Reporting

by Raverstead

PMA Research is to begin a flat-panel display tracking service, in addition to its projector tracking. The FPD Tracking reports will be compiled from monthly sell-through data provided by a panel of pro-AV dealers …

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Toshiba’s Easyguard Protects its Professional Hybrid

by Raverstead

Toshiba’s new professional laptop, the Portege Z20T, is a Core-M unit that takes aim at Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 and Dell’s Venue 11 Pro 7000. As a convertible model, the Z20T’s 12.5″ display can …