Volume 21 – Page 86 – Display Daily

Flextronics Hires New CMO

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Flextronics has appointed Michael Mendenhall to lead the company’s worldwide marketing, branding and communications initiatives. He most recently served as CMO and executive VP for Fusion-io, having previously held the post of senior VP …

Archos Releases Low-cost Gear VR Competitor

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French company Archos is to release a low-cost competitor to Samsung’s Gear VR (and, we guess, Google Cardboard), with the Archos VR Glasses. Like the Samsung and Google offerings, Archos’ ‘headset’ is more like …

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Cineplanet Selects Barco

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Barco has supplied digital cinema projectors to the Cineplanet chain’s 200+ locations across Latin America. Local distributor and integrator Bardan Cinema assisted with the rollout. A variety of projectors were used, from the DP2K-10SX …

Sensor Requirements for Better Pixels

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Klaus Weber, a Camera Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Grass Valley, gave a very nice analysis on various camera architectures and the needs for next generation image capture. His conclusion: CMOS sensors are superior …

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Panel Shipments to Rise in Coming Years

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Reports from Asia, quoting ‘market observers’, claim that TV panel shipments will rise 2.7% YoY this year, to 217 million units, and 3.5% next year. The market will be bolstered by recovering growth in …

Eizo Refreshes FDX Monitors With Extreme Dimming

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The FDX1501-A and FDX1501T-A are updates to Eizo’s Duravision FDX1501 and FDX1501T, released in 2011 (Display Monitor Vol 18 No 21). Compared to the existing models, power consumption has been lowered by more than …

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Japan’s Sharp to get 10 billion yen loan from Sumitomo Mitsui – sources

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Japan Display (JDI) has issued a revised forecast for this year and said it now expects to record a net loss of

Parade Extends Jitter-Cleaning to HDMI 2.0

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To promote the use of the HDMI 2.0 standard, Parade Technologies has released a jitter-cleaning repeater chip called the PS8409. It is designed to remove clock jitter and data jitter/skew from an HDMI 2.0 …

Optically Writable 3D LCD Developed by HKUST

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Hong Kong University for Science and Technology (HKUST) published the result of its research, originally shown in a paper at SID, into an optically rewritable 3D LCD. The display is basically a normal LCD …

Everdisplay Targets Multiple Mobile Sizes Next Year

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Everdisplay has shown two new AMOLED panels at an event in Shenzen, China. The first is a 1.63″ unit for wearables, which will enter mass production in Q2’15. The company also showed a prototype …

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Motorola Makes Big Battery Claims With Droid Turbo

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A new smartphone has been added to Motorola’s line of premium Droid-brand smartphones. The Droid Turbo will be available exclusively through Verizon in the USA, with a major selling point in its battery life. …

Eizo Shakes Off Legal Proceedings

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Earlier this year, German media claimed that Eizo (Eizo Japan and Eizo GmbH in Karlsruhe) had blocked the business activities of IT company S-Cape GmbH. S-Cape alleged that Eizo had ‘poached’ its employees and …

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