Vol 23 – Issue 21 – Page 6

Vivendi Returns to Gaming

by Tom Allen

Vivendi launch a hostile takeover bid aimed at Gameloft, the French games studio and owner of the Gameloft Live game streaming service, in February. Now, local sources say that the firm has secured the …

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Apple Grows to Third-Largest STB Vendor

by Tom Allen

From ninth place in 2014, Apple surged in global set-top box revenue to reach third place in 2015, according to IHS. STB growth last year came from a strong increase in consumer retail OTT …

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NIF Switches From Film to Laser

by Tom Allen

The Giant Screen Theatre at the National Infantry Museum in Georgia, USA has been upgraded from film to 6P laser, by Christie and D3D Cinema. Two Solaria CP42LH projectors were installed, throwing content onto …

JCB Values DPI’s Colour Reproduction

by Tom Allen

Antycip Simulation chose to install Digital Projection’s HIGHLite Laser projectors in JCB’s new Uptime Centre control room. The facility is located at JCB’s headquarters in Rochester (UK), and runs 12 hours every day, collecting …

PQC LED hybridised with QD colour converters

Hybrid QD-LED Raises Efficiency

by Milos Pavlovic

(a) Schematic representation, (b) cross-sectional, and (c) top SEM images of a photonic quasi-crystal LED hybridised with QD colour convertersA An international research group has used quantum dots to create a hybrid LED. QDs …

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 21

by Tom Allen

The 6000 series of TVs that Philips will launch this year (Ambilux Coming to Philips This Year) will use the Google Cast protocol. 43″, 49″, 55″ and 65″ sizes will be available. Unusually, the …

Aixtron Accepts Chinese Offer

by Tom Allen

China’s Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund (FGC) has offered to buy Germany’s Aixtron, for €670 million. The deal is being handled through FGC subsidiary Grand Chip Investment (GCI). Aixtron has accepted the offer, subject …

Atmos Boosts ZTE Audio

by Tom Allen

ZTE’s new smartphone, the Axon 7, will be a premium model with a focus on audio quality – although the display will still be a high-end AMOLED device. The Axon 7 is a 5.5″ …

Sky Records 1 Million On-Demand Customers

by Tom Allen

Sky has announced that more than 1 million customers in Germany and Austria have connected their Sky+ receivers to the internet, six months after the Sky On Demand service was launched.

ARM Designs for AR and VR

by Tom Allen

ARM has announced a new CPU and GPU for flagship mobile devices, which will be available in 2017. The Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU are designed to support VR and AR applications. The new …

Mediatek Expects to Hit Forecast High End

by Tom Allen

Mediatek has stuck to its current forecast of a 10% YoY revenue increase this year. Speaking at a media briefing, COO Jeffrey Ju said that the company expects revenues of about NT$71 billion ($2.2 …

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Asus is Firmly in Phablets

by Tom Allen

Asus used its press conference to introduce several new products, including a robot called ‘Zenbo’. Set to be launched at the end of September for $600, the robot is a home service unit that …