Vol 21 – Issue 47 – Page 8

Sony to Cut TV and Smartphone for Gaming and Imaging

by Raverstead

Sony plans to cut its TV and smartphone portfolios over the next three years. The move will be made to cut costs, with the company looking to the Playstation and image sensor businesses instead. …

EBU Issues Frequency Reports

by Raverstead

The EBU has issued two new reports. The first deals with DVB-T2 frequency and network planning (http://tinyurl.com/p5hjbbe), while the second is concerned with Single Frequency Networks (http://tinyurl.com/oaymv77).

Tags:DVB-T & T2| Large Display Monitor| Single Frequency Networks (SFN)| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 21 - Issue 47

DisplaySearch: 4K/UHD Panels Help LCD Panel Market to Grow

by Raverstead

Display manufacturers have not had much reason to be happy over the last few years, with decreasing panel sales and lower prices, it has seemed hard to make any kind of profit. Lately the …

Kairos Makes Mechanical Watches Smart

by Raverstead

Kairos is trying to keep everyone happy by transforming old mechanical watches into ‘smartwatches’ (of sorts). The ‘Tband’ (currently being funded on Indiegogo) is a new strap with a rigid section containing the electronics …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartwatches| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Germany Receives Wuaki

by Raverstead

Streaming video service Wuaki.tv has been officially launched in Germany, following a beta test starting in October. The service is available on connected TVs from Samsung, Panasonic and LG, as well as iOS and …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Canon Targets 2015 for Medical Colour Display

by Raverstead

Canon is displaying a prototype medical monitor at RSNA 2014 (30th November – 4th December). The unit is a high resolution colour display for mammography images. The 30″, 10MP (4096 x 2560) display uses …

TCO Certified Part of German Manufacturing Criteria

by Raverstead

TCO Development has signed an agreement with the Office for Procurement of the German Ministry of the Interior (BeschA), to make TCO Certified part of a new code of conduct for IT manufacturing. The …

Epson, Again, Rules PMA Results

by Raverstead

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in October. The company divides the results into three channels: ‘Retail’, ‘Pro AV’ and ‘Distribution (previously PMA tracked by device type rather than channel …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| PMA Research| Projectors| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Rumor: Huawei to Release Honor Smartglasses in Late 2014

by Raverstead

With augmented reality glasses from Google still in an extended beta release for $1,500 a piece, the release of other augmented reality headsets, like the Vuzix M100 or Epson Moverio, is still a very …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Heraeus’ Clevios F DH Designed for Temperature-Sensitivity

by Raverstead

Heraeus has partnered with DaeHa Mantech of Korea to develop dry heat and UV antistatic and conductive materials. The new materials will be marketed under the name of Clevios F DH (based on PEDOT:PSS). …

Tags:Film materials| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47

CE Devices to Top Holiday Gift Giving

by Raverstead

Parks Associates says that the top gifts for the 2014 season will include wearable devices including smartwatches, plus connected entertainment, such as streaming media devices (Apple TV and Roku box) and the tried and …

Nimble Sense Hopes to Bring Hand Gestures into Virtual Reality

by Raverstead

Nimble VR (San Francisco, CA) is developing a depth sensing camera that captures the user’s hand and finger positions and motions such that they can be input to a virtual reality headset. Called, Nimble …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Gesture Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 47