Vol 23 – Issue 13 – Page 6

French IPTV Consumption Rising

by Tom Allen

A study by Médiamétrie has shown that around 3 million viewers in France aged 15+ now watch live or catch-up IPTV on a PC, tablet or smartphone every day. This is 200,000 more than …

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Full Projector Support with BenQ’s Integrator’s Choice

by Tom Allen

Two new professional AV installation projectors, the SU931 and SX930, are now part of BenQ’s recent S-Series. They are part of the company’s Integrator’s Choice programme, which provides the products as well as education, …

Analyst: Sharp OLEDs by 2020

by Tom Allen

Yasuo Nakane, an analyst at Japan’s Mizuho Securities, has said that 2020 would be “a realistic timeline” for the newly-merged Foxconn-Sharp to begin producing OLED displays. Sharp has previously researched OLEDs but has concentrated …

LCD Price Fixing Claims Ongoing

by Tom Allen

Reports of LCD price fixing between 1996 and 2006 were first covered by us in late 2006 (Display Monitor Vol 13 No 50), and while most legislation has been finalised, some is still ongoing. …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 13

by Tom Allen

Dell and HP have become the latest companies to build machines that are specifically certified as VR-ready, for the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. The Dell Precision workstations will have a set of minimum …

Fujitsu Prepares for Fujitsu Forum

by Tom Allen

Fujitsu’s annual Fujitsu Forum will be held on the 19th and 20th May this year, at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. The theme this year will be ‘Human Centric Innovation: Driving Digital Transformation’. …

Samsung’s Foldable Phone Coming in 2017

by Tom Allen

ET News claims that Samsung will release a foldable smartphone next year. The device will act as a 5″ phone when closed, and a 7″ tablet when unfolded.

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E Ink Enters Retail Partnership

by Tom Allen

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) and E Ink have announced a strategic partnership to co-develop and market products using ePaper. DNP will use its Japanese sales network, developing products aimed at sectors of the retail, …

Pantomime Enables Shared VR

by Tom Allen

Before CES, we wrote about a company called Pantomime (AR and VR Due at CES 2016), which claims to add interactivity to VR without using an extra hardware. Thanks to Mark Fihn’s 3rd Dimension …

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VR Motion Sickness Countered Again – with Electrodes

by Norbert Hildebrand

One of the issues that is plaguing augmented and virtual reality solutions is the sensitivity of some people to motion sickness and related issues. Some people are more prone to experience this effect than …

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Augmented Reality May Change the Way we Watch Sports

by Norbert Hildebrand

Have you ever watched fencing as a sport? I mean at the Olympics, for example. Watching a sport like fencing that is so fast that the eye is typically slower than the action, means …

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New Camera HDR IP Cores Offered by Pinnacle Imaging Systems

by Chris Chinnock

Pinnacle Imaging Systems is a company that has been focused on High Dynamic Range (HDR) for some time – longer than any other company on the planet, the company claimed in an email exchange. …

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