Vol 22 – Issue 42 – Page 6

Sony Update Adds HDR

by Tom Allen

A software update for Sony’s Android TVs (Android TV 5.1.1) has enabled select UltraHD models to receive and process HDR content from USB sources. A later update will add support for streamed HDR content. …

HTC is First Outside Google With Android 6.0

by Tom Allen

After several leaks this month, HTC has revealed its new midrange HTC One smartphone, the HTC One A9 – although the AMOLED display is actually an upgrade from the LCD screen used on the …

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An Improved Reflective Display Technology

by Arthur Berman

Reflective displays have the potential to dramatically reduce power consumption. Unfortunately, a common trade-off in the operating principle of such displays is that light reflected from the display is dispersed in a Lambertian-like pattern. …

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SIM2 Demonstrates HDR monitor and HDR with Two Projectors

by Chris Chinnock

In one of sound rooms of the CEDIA exhibition hall was Sim2, the Italian home theater projector specialist. R&D Director Domenico Toffoli showed us the brightest HDR monitor currently available in Sim2 production and …

Marvell Shows 2Gbps G.hn

by Tom Allen

Marvell has publicly demonstrated a 2Gbps G.hn technology at Broadband World Forum in London. G.hn is the specification, developed by the ITU, defining networking over power lines, phone lines and coaxial cables. Marvell’s devices …

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Displays and BYOD

by Matthew Brennesholtz

BYOD can mean either Bring Your Own Device or Bring Your Own Display. The first meaning is often applied in the corporate world where it means an employee supplies their own smartphone, tablet or …

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Excess Inventory Leads to Falling TV Panel Demand

by Tom Allen

IHS expects LCD TV panel demand to fall 3% YoY in 2016, as a result of TV brands’ continual panel inventory control and global economic uncertainty. Shipments will reach 257 million units. David Hsieh, …

Lang Expands SSI Projector Portfolio

by Tom Allen

Lang AG has enlarged its Panasonic laser projector portfolio to include the PT-RZ12K, in Germany. The company will soon also offer the PT-RQ13 UltraHD laser projector for rental.

Asian Consumers Buy New iPhone at Twice the Global Rate

by Tom Allen

Statistics from Localytics – an app marketing and analytics firm – has shown where Apple’s iPhone 6S had the biggest impact. While 13 million models were sold worldwide on the phone’s opening weekend, adoption …

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Charter Faces Opposition in Time Warner Merger

by Tom Allen

The merger of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Charter Communications in the USA (Time Warner Acquired by Charter Communications) has been the target of complaints from public interest groups and competitors. Opponents …

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Lenovo Creates ‘Portable’ AIO PC

by Tom Allen

Lenovo has announced two new Yoga 900 Windows 10 PCs, including one that is called ‘the world’s thinnest Intel Core i convertible laptop’. As members of the Yoga line, both of the new products …

10 Times Brightness Rise Claimed in Blue PHOLED

by Tom Allen

A team of researchers has developed a new blue light-emitting phosphorescent OLED (PHOLED) molecule, which is close to meeting the brightness requirements of the USA’s National Television Systems Committee (NTSC). Stephen Forrest is from …