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Note 4 Arrives Ahead of Schedule

by Super User

The Galaxy Note 4 is now on sale in Korea, and will be rolled out to around 140 other countries next month. The price is KRW870,000 ($835) ex VAT.

Tags:Korea| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

HbbTV Symposium to Run This Month

by Super User

The HbbTV Association and the French HD Forum are running the HbbTV Symposium: Europe 2014, from 8th – 9th October. HbbTV developments, across a range of topics, will be discussed at the Espace Landowski …

Tags:Back Panel| Europe| HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Exertis is Exclusive With Acer

by Super User

Exertis Micro-P is now the exclusive distributor of Acer’s Aspire E10510P laptop in the UK.

Tags:Distributors| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Intel and Stino Collaborate for Content Management

by Super User

Germany’s Stino Eyevis GmbH will work with Intel on digital signage solutions. The partnership will make use of Intel’s Reference Design for Digital Signage (EL-10), which is based on an Intel Atom processor. It …

Tags:Digital Signage| Eyevis| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

OLED Breakthroughs

by Super User

Unusually, we lead this week with a technical story. However, the breakthrough in blue lifetime could be significant indeed. It was 2003 when we reported two talks by David Fyfe of CDT, one of …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Samsung Supports Students at UEL

by Super User

4,000 first-year students at the University of East London have been supplied with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet. The tablets, which have eBooks pre-installed and run customised software, were supplied to aid student learning.

Tags:Back Panel| Education| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Unowhy Cooks Up Third-Gen With Tegra 4

by Super User

The third generation of the Qooq tablet (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 6), by French company Unowhy, is powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 4 processor (1.9GHz, quad-core). The Qooq v3 is designed for use in …

Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Colour TVs Now 63 Years Old

by Super User

The last week of September – the 28th, to be precise – marked the 63rd anniversary of colour TVs arriving in US stores. The first model was the CBS-Columbia – produced partly because the …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Media Broadcast Begins -T2 Trial

by Super User

German DTT operator Media Broadcast spoke out in support of the DVB-T2 platform in June this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 23). The company has now launched a pilot project to test -T2 …

Tags:DVB-T & T2| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Siliconcore Brings 1.2mm LED to Infocomm

by Super User

Siliconcore will launch a new high-resolution LED display at Infocomm MEA, running from the 13th-16th October in Dubai: the Lavender 1.2mm. With a viewing distance of less than 1m, the Lavender 1.2mm can show …

Tags:Gitex 2014| Large Display Monitor| SiliconCore| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

SMPTE Webcasts Look to Content Delivery and Compression

by Super User

Educational webcasts will be run by the SMPTE through the end of November, including one by our own Pete Putman! The subject will be ‘Next Generation Display Interfaces’ (30th November, 5pm UTC), examining the …

Tags:Back Panel| DisplayPort| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SMPTE| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Oculus CEO Hints at 2015 Rift Release

by Super User

In an interview with Bloomberg, Oculus VR founder and CEO Brendan Iribe has hinted that the Oculus Rift might (finally) reach consumers next year. Iribe said that the Rift will be available “pretty soon… …

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