Vol 22 – Issue 47 – Page 4

Lenovo Kills Vibe

by Tom Allen

Chinese sources have said that Lenovo will phase out its Vibe smartphone brand, in favour of replacing it with the Lemon series and Motorola branding, in the China market.

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Huawei is said to be looking at placing panel orders with Samsung Display, rather than current supplier Japan Display, according to sources in Asia. The Chinese company is seeking lower-priced panels, to be able …

ACES WCG/HDR Encoding Explained

by Matthew Brennesholtz

The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) has long puzzled me. At the November 18th section meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and Television New York chapter, Jim Houston, co-chair of the ACES Project …

Tellywood Focuses on Immersive Content

by Tom Allen

2015 hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster film release year but SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) 2015 Symposium attendees are eternally optimistic that tomorrow’s releases will be richer, better and there will …

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Technicolor Completes Cisco CPE Acquisition

by Tom Allen

Technicolor has completed its acquisition of Cisco’s customer premises equipment business (this includes the set-top box division), in a cash and stock agreement worth $600 million (Technicolor Acquires Cisco’s CPE Business). The companies have …

Rising Large Panel Area Offsets Falling Units

by Tom Allen

Large-area display shipments will fall 5% YoY in 2015, says IHS – but the news is not all bad. While unit shipments will decline to 682 million units, large-area TFT-LCD shipment area will grow …

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ITRI Reports Breakthrough in OLED Lifetime

by Chris Chinnock

Taiwan-based ITRI has reported the development of a new OLED device architecture that significantly increases the lifetime of RGB OLED displays. The new structure, called a Plasmon-Coupled Organic Light Emitting Diode (PCOLED), boosts the …

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Perseus Chosen for Live UltraHD Broadcast

by Tom Allen

Mediapro’s Overon used V-Nova’s Perseus compression codec for an UltraHD broadcast of a football match (‘El Clásico’) between Real Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain, on the 21st November. Live footage was encoded at the …

A-Si Leads, but High-Tech Smartphone Panels are Rising

by Tom Allen

Total smartphone panel shipments rose 4% MoM in September, with particular growth noted in the high-end, says IHS. Shipments reached 160 million units and, while a-Si units continued to lead, LTPS TFT-LCD demand is …

AV Stumpfl Brings Dinosaurs to Life

by Tom Allen

AV Stumpfl has helped Disney World, Florida, to upgrade their projection show in the T-Rex Café at Disney Springs. A large section of the dining area is located underneath a night-time scene; several times …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 47

by Tom Allen

The Radiforce RX850 medical monitor from Eizo (Eizo Brings Modular Monitor to RSNA) has achieved FDA 510(k) clearance for breast tomosynthesis, from the USA’s Food & Drug Administration. Litemax has raised the mean time …

Happy Birthday, Windows

by Tom Allen

Happy birthday to Windows! Microsoft launched Windows 1.0 on the 20th November, 1985 – 30 years ago. 1.0 was the company’s first attempt to present a GUI to users (it wasn’t actually an OS, …