Vol 23 – Issue 12 – Page 2

Deluxe Delivers UHD Over Public Internet

by Tom Allen

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group says that its MediaCloud platform has been used to broadcast live UltraHD video, at 50fps, between Europe and North America. The broadcast used the public internet and was delivered using …

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Foxconn Signs Sharp Deal At Last

by Tom Allen

Foxconn and Sharp have agreed a deal, which will see the Taiwanese firm acquire 66% of the Japanese company. The deal has been valued at ¥389 billion ($3.5 billion) – ¥100 billion ($889 million) …

Qualcomm Will NOT Produce a Headset

by Tom Allen

It had been reported (but not by us) that Qualcomm was building a VR headset, following a showing of a prototype at the Game Developers Conference in March. This is not the case: Qualcomm …

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Sulon Uses OLED for Wireless HMD

by Tom Allen

AMD introduced a prototype of Sulon’s wireless HMD (Sulon Shows Cortex AR/VR Headset) at a private event at the Game Developers Conference last month, which we were alerted to be our friend Jon Peddie. …

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Pelé Not Happy With Samsung

by Isaac Oburu

Brazilian footballer Pelé is suing Samsung, after claiming the firm improperly used a lookalike in an advertisement for UltraHD TVs, which ran in the New York Times without his permission. Pelé is claiming at …

Could PS VR be Made PC Compatible?

by Tom Allen

There is a “possibility” that Sony will make its Playstation VR headset compatible with PCs, not just the Playstation 4 console. The news comes from a Nikkei interview with Sony EVP Masayasu Ito, translated …

Warranty Spending Falls – But Why?

by Tom Allen

American manufacturers are spending less on warranties than they used to, says Warranty Week. The site’s 2015 warranty expense data collection is almost complete, and it has examined the data to determine why this …

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Sony Forms BIG to Accelerate Time-to-Market

by Tom Allen

Sony’s Future Lab Program is also part of the BIGSony has formed the ‘Business Incubation Group’ – a division to bring together its new concept design and technology products under a single umbrella in …

Canon Honoured for Environmental Friendliness

by Isaac Oburu

Canon has received the 2016 Energy Star “Partner of the Year – Product Brand Owner Award” from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by manufacturing …

AGC to Expand its Supply System

by Isaac Oburu

Asahi Glass (AGC) has announced that it intends to strengthen its system to supply cover glass for car-mounted displays at its subsidiary AGC Display Glass Yonezawa Co., citing strong demand. This glass is a …

Epson, InFocus and Aaxa Lead in February

by Tom Allen

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in February. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. The February results showed Epson topping the …

Beamr Acquires Vanguard

by Tom Allen

Israeli company Beamr, a specialist in video compression whom we have reported on before, has announced that it is acquiring California-based Vanguard Video. Vanguard is a supplier of H.264 and HEVC codec technologies. Beamr’s …

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