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Cinepolis Rolls Out LATAM’s First Laser Cinema Projector

by Tom Allen

Cinema chain Cinepolis has installed Latin America’s first high-brightness digital cinema laser projector. Barco’s DP4K-60L projector was rolled out to Cinepolis Parque Toreo in Mexico City, a 13-screen venue that solely uses Barco projectors.

Neptune Expands ‘Duo’ Concept to Multiple Devices

by Tom Allen

We covered the Neptune Duo handheld display/smartwatch concept last month (Neptune Reverses Watch/Phone Paradigm), and the project has now reached Indiegogo – with a few changes. The Neptune Suite adds another peripheral: a 10″ …

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Silver Nanowires Approach $500 Million Value

by Tom Allen

A report by Nanomarkets (http://tinyurl.com/lsj7kf8) predicts that the market for silver nanowire-based transparent conductor materials will be worth $485 million by 2022. These materials are currently seeing increasing adoption in touch sensors. The market …

LG Moves TV Production to Vietnam

by Tom Allen

LG will soon move its TV production in Thailand to Vietnam, for logistical ease and efficiency, an executive has told Reuters. Nipon Wongsaengarunsri, marketing director of LG Electronics (Thailand), said that Vietnam was considered …

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Oculus Confirms Dual-Display Use

by Tom Allen

During a panel at the recent SXSW festival, Oculus VR’s Nate Mitchell announced that the latest prototype of the Oculus Rift headset (Crescent Bay) uses two OLED displays – not just one. It was …

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ET News Details Flexible OLED Plans

by Tom Allen

ET News has summarised information about the flexible OLED plans for LG Display and Samsung Display. LGD currently has a monthly capacity of 14,000 substrates (LGD Succeeds in Doubling Flexible Capacity), and is now …

ACC Liverpool Chooses Christie Projectors

by Tom Allen

ACC Liverpool, an exhibition centre in the city, has upgraded its AV equipment with two Christie Roadster HD14K-M projectors. The projectors were supplied by Preston-based Pure AV. One is permanently installed in the main …

Harrods Celebrates Easter With Optoma

by Tom Allen

Projection Artworks and Justso have created a projection mapping demonstration at Harrods in London. For Easter, the department store decided to map a projection onto a 1.5m-tall egg-shaped model, creating the appearance of a …

Titan X: A Low-Cost Answer to Titan Z

by Tom Allen

We heard about Nvidia’s Titan X earlier this month (Nvidia Reaffirms Move to Gaming Products With Streaming Console), when it was previewed at GDC 2015. Now, the company has officially announced the card at …

WCO Eliminates Tarrifs on Galaxy Gear

by Tom Allen

The World Customs Organisation in Belgium has decided that Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch is a ‘mobile telecommunications’ device, rather than a smartwatch. The decision means that the product can be exported and imported between …

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Sony Result 19/03/2015

by Helen Vince

Sony Corporation recorded a net profit of ¥90 billion ($746.3 million) in the third quarter of the year on turnover of ¥2.5 trillion ($20.7 billion), which compares with a net profit in Q3 of …

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Latin American Digital TV Doubles to 2020

by Tom Allen

The number of digital TV homes in the LATAM region will double by 2020, according to Digital TV Research. 152 million households will have access to digital TV at this time, representing 93.6% penetration …