Volume 21

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IFA Says Consumers Willing to Buy

by Super User

IFA kicks off with a press event (although to try to get them all in, several are held before this one!). The format is much the same each year, so we’ve cut our report …

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ITRI Lowers Touch Production Costs

by Super User

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) showcased a new metal mesh production technology at Touch Taiwan last month. The technology is said to feature a ‘one-step’ roll-to-roll method, which can apparently lower production costs …

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Freesync Monitors Will Cost $100 Less Than G-Sync

by Super User

AMD has told PCR that its upcoming Freesync (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 4) gaming monitors will be between $80 and $100 cheaper than models with Nvidia’s G-Sync technology. Both aim to eliminate screen …

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Absen and PSCO to Partner at PLASA 2014

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LED display manufacturer Absen Optoelectronics will be exhibiting with PSCo at PLASA 2014, which takes place in London from 5th to 8th October. Attendance at the event forms part of a European Roadshow by …

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BDA Pushes Adoption of New Display Technologies

by Super User

We knew it was coming. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced at IFA that it was ‘most of the way done’ with defining a specification enabling the format to handle UltraHD imagery. Chairman Victor Matsuda …

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Barco Celebrates HDBaseT Entry

by Super User

Barco plans to demonstrate its new Orion Cinemascope home projector – an HDBaseT model to mark the company’s entry into the HDBaseT Alliance. The Orion Cinemascope combines 2560 x 1080 resolution, a 1DLP chip, …

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HUD Lowers Crash Chance by 70%

by Super User

A head-up display, developed at Scotland’s Glasgow Caledonian University, alerts drivers to the location of other cars in poor visibility conditions. In a simulation, the HUD highlights other vehicles within a 400m distance on …

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Plastic Logic Follows Through on Graphene Partnership

by Super User

As part of their partnership formed last year (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 26), the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic Logic have demonstrated a flexible display using graphene in the pixels’ electronics. It is …

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Gold is the New Black for Consoles

by Super User

Do you suffer from a lack of ‘bling’ in your living room? Are your white consoles just too pass

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Neotion Looks to Headless HDMI

by Super User

We’ve been reporting on Neotion, the specialist in exploiting the CI slot in Europe’s TVs and STBs, since 2008. At the show this year, it was showing how a CAM can be used to …

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Esprinet Adds iPhones in Italy

by Super User

Esprinet in Italy has been given the official right by Apple to distribute iPhones in the country. Esprinet has been an Apple distributor for four years.

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Primesight Spreads Roadside Network

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Primesight is rolling out a new roadside billboard collection in the UK, called Network. The first phase saw three units installed in London (Shoreditch High St., Wandsworth Bridge Road and Commercial Road), one in …

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