Vol 23 – Issue 36 – Page 7

Oculus Wins First Emmy

by Norbert Hildebrand

The TV academy announced four Interactive Media Jury Winners this week. One of the surprises is the one award going to Oculus and their virtual reality experience, Henry. The experience is about a hedgehog …

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Advert Designed to Evolve

by Milos Pavlovic

M&C Saatchi has been working with Clear Channel and Posterscope to develop outdoor advertising that uses a Microsoft Kinect camera to detect a viewer and estimate their engagement. The content on the display is …

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Avnet to Buy Premier Farnell

by Yvette Raikes

Distributor Avnet has agreed on a cash offer of €2.24 per share, worth €836 million, to buy Leeds, UK-based Premier Farnell, the maker of Raspberry Pi and an established component distributor in the UK. …

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JCDecaux Launches Showcase at Heathrow

by Yvette Raikes

At London Heathrow’s airport’s Terminal 5, JCDecaux has positioned its Motion Showcase between Immigration and Baggage Reclaim, making it visible to all arriving passengers. Two 3mm pitch, full motion, digital screens make up the …

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Microsoft May Announce Surface Desktop PCs

by Yvette Raikes

Microsoft is rumoured to be about to present a new addition to its Surface family next month, possibly in New York on the 26th. An all-in-one Surface desktop PC, codenamed Cardinal, is said to …

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Did Apple Show us Enough to Stay Ahead in the Smartphone and Other Markets?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In the most recent Apple show of their newest gadgets, we saw the announcements of the Apple watch Series 2 and the iPone 7. As no surprise, Apple showed us their “BEST iPhone” ever …

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TCL Impresses at IFA 2016

by Chris Chinnock

TCL used IFA to showcase a broad range of display expertise including HDR LCD TV, 8K displays and laser projection TVs. Just prior to IFA, it also announced plans to invest $7 billion to …

Sony Highlights Backlight Master Technology at IFA

by Chris Chinnock

There was no talk of display or TVs at the Sony press conference, but they were showing the new ZD9 TV in the booth along with other high-end TVs, plus the Backlight Master demo …

Haier Looking to Focus on Upscale TVs

by Chris Chinnock

Haier is not well known in the European market and has sold mainly small-sized and value TVs to date, but it wants to change that by moving upmarket. Judging by the quality of the …

Kobo to Offer New eReaders

by Chris Chinnock

At IFA, we caught up with Rakuten Kobo, a Toronto company which sells e-books, e-readers and tablet computers. It is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten. The name Kobo is an anagram …

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Sharp Shows 27-inch 8K Monitor at IFA

by Chris Chinnock

In Europe, the Sharp brand name was purchased by Slovakia-based UMC about one and a half years ago. At IFA it was showing TVs but not really talking much about them. The recent acquisition …

Grundig Unveils its First OLED 4KTV with HDR

by Chris Chinnock

Grundig used IFA to unveil its first OLED TV – and it looked great. The VLO 0790 SP is a 65” product with UHD resolution using a panel from LG Display. Grundig TVs are …