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Are We Connected Yet?

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Connectivity – The plaintive cry from the back seat of “Are we there yet?” is familiar to any parent who ever took a child on a car trip, even a short one. Perhaps this …

Tags:Radio| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 01

iPhone 6 Teardown Posted

by Bob Raikes

We spotted a tear down of the iPhone 6 on the EDN site, with images and comments from iFixit. The phone is easier to fix than earlier iPhones and has a huge battery.

Tags:iPhone| Repair| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Thanks to Computerworld for putting together this excellent round-up of those in the technology industry that left us in 2014. In addition to Bernard Lechner and George Heilmeier, mentioned in that list, the display …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Latam Pay TV Market is Growing

by Bob Raikes

According to data from Dataxis, quoted in NexTV Latam (Spanish language), there were 66 million Pay TV clients in Latin America in the third quarter of 2014. Satellite was the biggest carrier, with 32.8 million …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LATAM| Pay TV| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 01

The Advent of the Chromebook Era

by Bob Raikes

Mobile – Now that the holiday shopping blitz is behind us (almost) Amazon has released sales data on the West’s most important retail buying period, that seems to indicate the rise of the Chromebook over …

Tags:Amazon| Chromebooks| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Just a Few Words on TV Before I Go…

by Pete Putman

Today’s column will be my last Display Daily after nearly eight years of ruminating about this wacky, weird business we know as the display industry. Along the way, I’ve written about topics as diverse …

Tags:Black Friday| PDP| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 01

IBC Content Everywhere and NHK bring 8K TV to the Middle East

by Bob Raikes

London, 29 December 2014; IBC Content Everywhere is a new series of global events addressing the latest developments in media. With digital out-of-home presentations and high quality acquisition high on the list of current …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| NHK| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 22 - Issue 01

LG Display Introduces the Art Slim LCD TV Panel Series

by Bob Raikes

Seoul, Korea (Dec. 29, 2014) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, today announced that it will unveil the ‘Art Slim’ series for LCD TV panels at CES 2015. With this …

Tags:CES 2015| LCD displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Vol 22 - Issue 01

PuzzlePhone: A New Modular Smartphone Concept

by Bob Raikes

Smartphones – The idea of a modular smartphone has been reported in the news for some time. Think Google’s Project Ara. Part of what makes the idea so attractive is that, should one part …

Tags:Recycling| Smartphones| Sustainability| Vol 22 - Issue 01

BenQ Introduces First Wireless Business Projectors to Utilize NFC Technology for Wireless Projection: MW665+ and MX666+

by Bob Raikes

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, December18th, 2014 – Internationally renowned provider of digital lifestyle and global DLP® projector leader, BenQ announced today two new additions to its business projector lineup: the MW665+ and MX666+. Designed and built to …

Tags:Business Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 01

A Look at the FX (Visual Effects) Industry

by Bob Raikes

Cinema – While not a display-centric industry, visual or special effects are in all kinds of media we consume today, so I recently took the opportunity to take the pulse of this industry in …

Tags:Content Creation| Post Production| Vol 22 - Issue 01

Elemental Says Content Delivery Providers Starting to Adopt More Sophisticated Methods

by Bob Raikes

Broadcast & Distribution – Elemental Technologies delivered a webinar titled, “Creating scalable workflows for file-based video delivery.” It laid out several architectures that content delivery providers are able to configure – with Elemental products, …