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RTBf Goes 100% Eizo

by Tom Allen

Belgium’s national broadcaster for the French-speaking community, RTBf, uses several Eizo touch screens in its studios. New screens were installed recently in a round of modernisation. Eizo’s 17″ Flexscan T1781, combined with the 23″ …

Intel’s Refresh Drives Axiomtek Player

by Tom Allen

OPS883 is Axiomtek’s newest digital signage player, supporting UltraHD resolution and dual displays. It is based on Intel’s 22nm ‘Haswell Refresh’ chips. The OPS architecture means that the player can be slotted into the …

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Eyevis is Well Ahead in IBC Preparations

by Tom Allen

Eyevis has announced its plans for IBC 2015 (11th – 15th September), in Amsterdam. The company, on stand 9.B24, will showcase many of its display products. These will include a new slim (422mm-thick) rear-projection …

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Photographer Snaps Apple Watch Close-Up

by Tom Allen

Scientist and photographer Bryan Jones has put the Apple Watch’s display under the microscope. Of course, the sub-pixel arrangement looks very different to that of the LCD-based iPhone; the blue sub-pixels are much larger …

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White Box Phablets in First-Ever Decline

by Tom Allen

According to Etmag, Chinese vendors’ white-box phablet shipments suffered their first-ever YoY decline (-15%) in Q2’15. Poor market conditions and growing branded phablet shipments contributed to the fall. Sales of white-box units have been …

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Android Gaining Popularity in Embedded Applications

by Tom Allen

VIA Technologies has conducted a worldwide survey on the uses of Android as an embedded platform. 93% of the roughly 250 respondents were already or were considering its use, with the majority (28%) looking …

Regulatory Trend: US States Adopting Lighting Standards for Digital Billboards

by Norbert Hildebrand

According to Digital Signage Today, several states in the US have recently adopted standards for controlling the set up and operation of digital signage boards along highways. As an example, they quote the recent …

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Henkel Leads Series C Investment in Vitriflex

by Helen Vince

The Electronics Group of Henkel has made an additional investment in ultra-barrier film technology innovator, Vitriflex. Henkel made its first equity investment and signed a joint development agreement with Vitriflex in May 2014 and …

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CSOT On Track for Q1’17 Production

by Tom Allen

Image credit: OLED-InfoIt has been reported that construction of CSOT’s upcoming G6 LTPS fab in Wuhan, China, is ahead of schedule. Mass production will begin in Q1’17, and the facility will produce small- and …

Rumour: LGD Aims at 12 Million 4k OLED TVs by 2020

by Tom Allen

ET News, from Korea, has posted a chart that it claims shows LG Display’s own UltraHD OLED TV production forecast.

Sony Has No Plans to Sell Mobile Unit

by Helen Vince

The CEO of Sony’s mobile business, Hiroki Totoki, has said in an interview that the company “will never” quit the mobile market and remains committed to manufacturing mobile devices. Totoki told Arabian Business that …

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BBC Micro Returns to UK Schools

by Tom Allen

The BBC, working with ARM, Microsoft and Samsung, has finalised the design of a tiny computer, which will be supplied – for free – to every Year 7 schoolchild (11 year-olds) in the UK …