Volume 21 – Page 15 – Display Daily

Sling Media and ViXS Downconvert for Multiple Streams

by Super User

Sling Media and ViXS Systems have worked together on a new network transcoder, which uses Sling technology and a ViXS XCode 5190 chipset. The device can perform 2560 x 1440 to 1280 x 720 …

Emagin Receives $6.8 Million in R&D Contracts

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Emagin says it has been awarded three new R&D contracts totalling $6.8 million. One of the three new contracts is a $1.1 million contract over 15 months to further enhance the full colour brightness …

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Smartphones Drive MEA Handsets to Record Sales

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A new record was set for the MEA tablet handset market in Q2 this year, rising 27% YoY to 64 million units. IDC says that most growth came from smartphones, which are rapidly gaining …

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AMD Result 21/10/2014

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reported its third quarter results, posting a net profit of $17 million on turnover of $1.43 billion, which compares with a net profit of $48 million on turnover of …

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TV Vendors More Than Double UltraHD Target

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Supply chain sources have said that TV vendors are aiming to ship 34 million UltraHD TVs next year – up 120% from 2014. The largest market will be China (no surprises there – TA) …

Verizon Passes 5.5 Million Video Subs

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114,000 new FiOS video customers joined Verizon in Q3’14, boosting the company’s total video subscribers to 5.5 million: a 7% YoY increase. Penetration was 35.5%, compared to 34.9% last year.

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Infocus Avoids Image Distortion

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Infocus’ new entry-level DLP projectors – the IN118HDA, IN118HDSTA and IN2128HDA – feature the same aspect ratio (16:9) as today’s common consumer displays. The company made this decision to minimise the distortion of projected …

LG Display Result 23/10/2014

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LG Display (LGD) has reported its third quarter results, posting a net profit of KRW354 billion ($334.1 million) on turnover of KRW6.5 trillion ($6.1 billion), which compares with a net profit in Q3 of …

Google Developing Chromecast 2

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Mario Queiro, VP of product management at Google, has said that the company will launch a second-generation Chromecast device. Although few details were shared, Queiro said that more advanced hardware will mean that it …

TSMC Plans 16nm in 2015

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TSMC’s co-CEO, CC Wei, has said that the company will begin volume production of 16nm FinFET process products in Q2’15, or early Q3’15. In tests, these chips have shown that processor speeds can reach …

BlackBerry Passport Sells Out

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The Taipei Times reports that in a recent interview with John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, he said that supplies of the new Passport smartphone have sold out, demonstrating the phone’s popularity. According to the …

No Radical Shifts in Apple’s Third iPad Mini

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The iPad Air 2 and retina-class iMac garnered the lion’s share of attention at Apple’s press event in mid-October, but there was another device introduced. The iPad Mini 3 is almost identical to the …