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E Ink Teams Up with Papercast to Deliver Smart Signage to Japan Bus Stops

by Andrew Fenn

E Ink and Papercast have announced their partnership to deploy smart bus stop displays in Japan, piloting in Aizuwakamatsu city, 217 kilometres from Tokyo. The displays leverage E Ink’s ePaper solution and low power …

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Computacenter plc Result 13/03/2018

by Vijaya

Computacenter plc announced financial results for the year ended 31 December 2017. The group’s revenues increased by 16.9% to £3,793 million ($5,311 million), compared to £3,245.4 million ($4,544 million) reported for fiscal year 2016. …

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Lionsgate VR Theme Parks Opening in China and South Korea

by Andrew Fenn

Lionsgate will open a 22,000 m² indoor VR theme park in Hengqin, China next year, in collaboration with Thinkwell Group. The park, called Lionsgate Entertainment World, will feature rides based on popular movies, including …

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mk2 is Commercialising Location-Based VR Equipment

by Andrew Fenn

French cinema company, mk2, has debuted its VR plug-and-play solution for professionals, the VR Pod. The announcement comes one year after the opening of mk2 VR in Europe (Europe’s Largest VR Facility is in …

Tags:AR/VR| France| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Esports Market Projected to Grow at a CAGR of 21.7% from 2016 to 2021

by Andrew Fenn

The global eSports industry is projected to grow at a CAGR of 21.7% between 2016 and 2021, which will see it transformed from a $327 million industry into a billion-dollar one, according to PwC. …

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A New Technology for Fabricating Micro-LED Microdisplays

by Arthur Berman

JBD Inc. (Hong Kong, China) is developing a new technology for use in the manufacture of microLED microdisplays. First, a few words of background information. At the current time, the most common approach used …

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Get Ready for a New Codec

by Bob Raikes

One of those bits of critical, but (hopefully) transparent technology that gets the video that we all love through the ether, copper or fibre, is the codec and there’s an important new one coming, …

Tags:Codecs| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 11

California State Assembly Introduces Right to Repair Act

by Andrew Fenn

California State Assembly member Susan Eggman has announced that she will be introducing the California Right to Repair Act. The legislation would require manufacturers of electronics to make diagnostic and repair information, as well …

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Shorter Month Means Fewer Panels Shipped

by Yvette Raikes

The shorter month of February saw a drop of 20.6% MoM in small and medium panel shipments to 88.387 million for the four main suppliers, but this was only down 6.3% YoY. HannStar saw …

Tags:AUO| CPT| Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Innolux| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Shorter Month Results in Lower Shipments

by Yvette Raikes

The shorter month of February saw a drop of 15.6% MoM in large panel shipments to 16.929 million for the four main suppliers, but this was only down 3.8% YoY. AUO announced February revenue …

Tags:AUO| CPT| Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 11

LDM V25 Vol 11 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

LG has released pricing for the G Series OLED TVs. We previously reported the C, E and W series. (Pricing Information Released for LG’s 2018 OLED Line) The G8 is available just in 65″ …

Tags:Collaboration| Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Philips| STBs| Vivitek| Vol 25 - Issue 11

BackPacking with VR

by Len Scrogan

The US ed tech conference season kicks off at the start of the year with a strong event, the Future of Education Technology Conference (now in its 37th year), held each year in Orlando, …

Tags:Education| PCs| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 11