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Ziggo and Cable Rule in The Netherlands

by Tom Allen

There were 20,000 new subscribers to pay-TV services in the Netherlands in Q4’14, according to Telecompaper. Most of these came from IPTV delivered by DSL or fibre. There was a 0.6% increase in overall …

OLED TVs Rise 1,600%

by Tom Allen

DisplaySearch reports that OLED TV revenue was up 500% YoY in 2014. In a media briefing in Korea, the firm said that the size of the market reached about KRW300 billion ($267.4 million). 77,000 …

LG Display Plans OLED Alliance

by Tom Allen

The Korea Times claims that LG Display intends to establish an OLED TV alliance, in an effort to boost its OLED panel business. CEO Han Sang-beom is quoted as saying, “We are in talks …

VESA Bangs the Drum for USB Type-C

by Bob Raikes

VESA was at the show to talk about DisplayPort in particular. There is, of course, a lot of interest in the alternate mode for USB-C. We saw a number of USB-type C connectors and …

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Tianma Shows OLEDs and A-si Tablet Panels

by Bob Raikes

Tianma’s OLEDs Looked good and should be here by the end of 2015Tianma was one of only two LCD makers that had meeting rooms on the show floor (the other was Samsung) and had …

The Eye Tribe Shows Eye Tracking on Phones and TVs

by Bob Raikes

The Eye Tribe showed fruit ninja being played using eye trackingDanish Eye Tracking software company, The Eye Tribe was on the Denmark booth and was showing how its eye-tracking technology could be used in …

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Silicon Image Supports MHL Notebook Application

by Bob Raikes

Silicon Image had a booth with several topics as it also housed SiBeam and MHL LLC. Andromium’s dock converts a smartphone into a notebookThe first product that we looked at was a new notebook …

Raon Tech Shows LCOS for NTE Applications

by Bob Raikes

Raon Tech was a new name to us. The company is from Korea and has developed its own LCOS devices that are optimised for near to eye (NTE) applications. The 720P version is 0.5″ …

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Qualcomm Identifies 802.11ad (WiGig) Use Cases

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm, of course, had a big booth and was showing how its latest processors could be used for depth sensing and two different approaches were being shown – one from Mantis using “structured light” …

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Marvell Specified in Project Ara

by Bob Raikes

Marvell started by showing us the PXA1928 which is the application processor/SoC that is being used in Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone (The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation). The chip is based on …

Lenovo Introduces Pocket Projector

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo had lots to show us and we had a whistlestop tour of the booth. The Mgo 300 is an entry level 8″ Windows tablet running Windows 8.1 and using an Intel BayTrail processor. …

Galaxy S6 and Edge OLEDs Push Cutting Edge (Again)

by Steve Sechrist

In the OLED Display Technology Shoot-out published today, Displaymate Labs said Samsung once again has leapfrogged its generational OLED display performance with its new flagship flexible curved screen Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S6 …

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