Vol 25 – Issue 31 – Page 3

Foxconn Result 15/8/2018

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn Electronics reported Q2 net profits of NT$17.49 billion ($566.6 million), down 2% YoY and at the lowest level for five years, on record high sales of NT$1.07 trillion ($34.7 billion), up 17%. For …

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Cogeco Connexion to Introduce MediaFirst IPTV Platform in Canada

by Andrew Fenn

Cogeco Connexion, a subsidiary of Cogeco Communications, has entered into an agreement with MediaKind (previously Ericsson Media Solutions) to offer its IPTV platform to customers in Canada. The platform allows for the customisation of …

Sprint and LG to Release First 5G Smartphone in the US

by Andrew Fenn

Sprint has announced it will collaborate with LG to deliver the first mobile 5G smartphone in the US in the first half of 2019. Sprint says its customers will be among the first in …

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Cable Industry Gearing up for the High Bandwidth Needs of Light Field Displays

by Chris Chinnock

CableLabs, the development group funding by the cable industry, held their summer conference last week in Colorado. A number of topics were discussed, but I want to focus on their views of display use …

Chromebooks May Soon Support Windows 10

by Bob Raikes

Earlier this year, Google said that it was working to allow the support of an alternative OS alongside Chrome OS. This caused some confusion as some had already run Linux distributions and Chrome OS …

Holodeck Platform Chosen for New “Roam and Ride” VR Rollercoaster

by Andrew Fenn

VR Coaster, Holodeck VR and MackMedia have announced that the Holodeck platform has been selected to create a new “roam and ride” VR attraction, a combination of free-roaming VR and a thrill ride at …

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Sony Has Sold 500 Million PlayStation Systems

by Andrew Fenn

Sony’s PlayStation has sold 525.3 million systems since the release of the original PlayStation back in 1994, the company has announced. Sony has released a special edition translucent PS4 system with a matching Dual …

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Strategy Analytics: Connected TV Devices Break One Billion Units Milestone

by Andrew Fenn

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, more than one billion connected TV devices are now in use worldwide. Connected TV devices allow users to stream OTT video content to the television screen …

New 4K OPS Player Giada PC25

by Bob Raikes

Giada has a new OPS media playuer that uses a QuadCore Gemini Lake CPU with support for Intel graphics up to DCI 4K resolution up to 60Hz. Memory is supported up to 8GB and …

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BenQ Adds Dual UST L/P Projectors

by Bob Raikes

BenQ has two new projectors with support for UST (and on which we reported first from in January (LDM Vol 25 – Issue 02 Roundup). The LW890UST and LH890UST both use the firm’s BlueCore …

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IHS: Europeans Spending Two More Hours a Month Watching On-Demand Video

by Andrew Fenn

As viewers continue to shift to viewing television content on an on-demand basis, TV and video consumption is changing across the leading five European markets: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Linear TV …

Epson Wins Nine InfoComm 2018 Awards for Laser Projection and Display Technology

by Andrew Fenn

Epson has announced that it received nine awards at InfoComm 2018, which took place in Las Vegas back in June. Awards were as follows: LightScene accent lighting laser projector (Most Creative New Product) Pro …