Sony engineer explains how Sony is making 4K. Here showing the Sony 65″ 4K Bravia X-Reality Pro display with 60p HDMI 2.0 support. Talking about Sony upscaling, color and detail engine. Now I’m looking forward to the 55″ being sub-$1500 and the 65″ being sub-$2000, so more people can afford this amazing 4K world.
Category: Displays
Mitsubishi Laservue 4K Laser TV
Posted by – October 7, 2013
This Mitubishi 4K Laser TV uses red laser to produce the industry’s best red colors in addition to using blue and gree LED in this 4K LCD. Mitsubishi’s TV is one of the only laser 4k Tvs market. Some of Mitsubishi’s Laser TVs are on the market but are only sold in Japan for a price of about 2,000 USD and are currently only available in 1080p.
Panasonic 4K Booth Tour at CEATEC 2013
Panasonic shows all their latest 4K technologies, launching a 65″ 4K, showing off a 55″ RGB printed OLED screen, 4K 20″ tablet, 4K Camcorder (coming soon), showing HDMI 2.0 on their 4K, 4K upscaling, and more about Panasonic’s 4K engine.
Cambrios ClearOhm keynote at CEATEC 2013 (with Japanese translation)
Posted by – October 4, 2013
Cambrios chief marketing officer Sriram Peruvemba speaks at the CEATEC 2013 about the Cambrios ClearOhm silver-nanowires technology. This is the full version that includes the Japanese translations, I may post a version half the length with all the Japanese translations edited out in the next couple of days.
Sharp IGZO ramping up mass production
Posted by – October 1, 2013
Sharp shows the latest range of LCD IGZO screens, showing 4K at 15.6″ coming in laptops later this year, 32″ IGZO 4K, and Sharp is right now selling a range of Smartphone and Tablet sized IGZO displays in Japan, why they aren’t yet shipping IGZO much outside of Japan yet, I am not sure. IGZO allows to refresh the screen as slow as 1Hz, saving drastic amounts of power on the screen refresh. Sharp also shows their new MEMS screen demos, made in collaboration with Qualcomm, perhaps Texas Instruments has been showing similar MEMS solutions like this for something like 10 years though (if implemented in displays yet or not I don’t know).
Rifda Transparent LCD
Posted by – September 24, 2013
Rifda is a Shenzhen based producer of transparent LCDS. The transparent LCDS make it into products such as 3D glasses as well as point of sale products for banks.
My 11-year old cousin Henry at the Panasonic IFA 2013 Booth Tour
Posted by – September 22, 2013
Henry shows around the Panasonic booth at the IFA 2013 consumer electronics show in Berlin Germany. You can see Henry’s other IFA 2013 Booth tours here:
Henry’s Samsung IFA 2013 Booth Tour
Henry’s Toshiba IFA 2013 Booth Tour
Henry’s LG IFA 2013 Booth Tour
Sony AX1 4K Camorder, records 4K 24p/25p/30p/50p/60p on XQD memory cards in XAVC S codec at 60/100/150mbitps
Posted by – September 14, 2013
Sony presents their first consumer 4K camcorder. The price is $4500€. Records 3840×2160 in 24p, 30p, 25p, 50p and 60p. Encoding using Sony’s new XAVC S codec. XAVC S is a new version of XAVC, used in Sony’s higher-end F5 and F55. XAVC S 4K footage is encoded in 3 possible bitrates 60mbit/s, 100mbit/s and 150 Mbit/s on Sony’s new XQD memory card format. SD Card is only for 1080p recording, the USB host port might allow for 4K recording to an external hard drive, I am not sure. This new Sony camcorder arrives on the market in November. The end of this video also shows some of the latestSony 4K TVs selling for starting about 4000€ in Europe for Sony’s 55″ 4K TV and about 5500€ for Sony’s 65″ 4K TV.
Marseille VTV-1222 4K video upscaling certified by Technicolor
Posted by – September 13, 2013
Marseille shows their latest VTV-1222 family of 4K video processors providing single-chip solution to process, enhance, and upscale legacy video content to 4K (3840×2160) for display on next generation 4K UHD TVs. Marseille claims to provide one of the best 4K upscaling technologies yet, to upscale 1080p content to 4K. The Marseille processor is embedded for example in the latest Toshiba Blu-ray player to upscale 1080p Blu-ray movies to 4K screens.
Read more at: http://www.marseilleinc.com/new-products/4k-video-revolution
Thompson TCL 4K TVs 50″ and 55″ invading the European Market
Posted by – September 12, 2013
Thompson presents two new 4K TVs for the European market, 50″ 4K and 55″ 4K. The 50″ is to be sold initially for about 2,000-2500 Euros and the 55″ is to be sold for about 3,000-3,500 euros. Consider those are the introductory prices and that one can maybe hope prices to quickly come down during 2014 to for example 1000 euros for 50″ 4K and 1500 euros for 55″ 4K. Both TVs support native 4K content (maximum of 30fps over HDMI 1.X standard) and up-scaling conventional HD content to 4K resolutions with the Marseille upscaling solution certified by Technicolor. Thomson is thus the brand to bring TCL’s 4K TVs to the European market. Here’s hoping that the 55″ 4K TV from Thomson/TCL reach the sub-2000 Euro price point all over Europe sooner rather than later! Consider that TCL is China’s number 1 TV maker. And that Thomson is one of the brands that TCL is using to sells its TVs in Europe!
TCL 84″ 4K Pen input Touchscreen TV
Posted by – September 9, 2013
TCL demonstrats a 4K TV with pen touchscreen input support. The Large touchscreen allows for people to draw on it. The Pen uses a special sensor to interact with the screen. The TV is connected to a computer running Windows. For artists, education, business, no price yet.
Henry’s Toshiba IFA 2013 Booth Tour
My 11-year-old cousin Henry from Denmark walks around the Toshiba booth at IFA 2013, testing out the new Toshiba Tegra4 tablets, checking out the latest Toshiba 4K Upscaling Blu-ray player, Windows 8 touch-screen devices and more.
Cambrios is revolutionizing the touch screen industry, interview with their CMO
Posted by – September 6, 2013
One of the revolutionary new touch screen technologies is created by Cambrios, it’s their ClearOhm® Silver Nanowires, that is now the leading candidate for replacing ITO in touch applications and making strides also in OLED lighting, Organic Photo Voltaic cells, electronic displays and others. At IFA, I interviewed Sri Peruvemba who was very excited about the prospects for the technology. Cambrios ClearOhm technology is replacing ITO not only in applications where ITO cannot play (large monitors, All-In-One computers and upcoming flexible/unbreakable tablets, phones and other devices) but also in applications like tablets and laptops and mobile phones where ITO is dominant. They already have many products in the field (see my video with Cambrios from Computex in Taiwan) and are expecting more tier one design wins to be announced in the near future. Already it’s public that companies like Samsung, Nissha are investors in Cambrios ClearOhm, that the worlds biggest touch screen maker TPK is building a new factory to build Cambrios ClearOhm based touch screens and that Hitachi is also a customer. The ClearOhm product has better transmission than ITO on film, has better conductivity (since silver conducts 100 times better than Indium), is made on flexible plastic material that is 40% thinner and 40% lighter than traditional touch screens, can enable flexible touch screens that ITO cannot since it is brittle, and it is very rugged. The Silver Nanowires from Cambrios is almost invisible in the touch screen, I could not see any pattern or moire that you would see with other technologies like metal mesh and ITO. Also the Cambrios CMO says that they are price competitive even with inferior technologies, that is amazing. During my interview I examined the touch sensors and could not see any pattern visibility. This is why they are winning new business. How fast Cambrios ClearOhm is going to take over the whole worldwide touch panel market is unsure, Cambrios says that they can produce enough silver nanowire material to be in all 1 Billion smartphones to be sold in 2014 if the markets and if the touch screen device producers demand it. I would definitely like to see hundreds of millions of cheaper, lighter, flexible/unbreakable plastics based Cambrios ClearOhm based Smartphone and Tablet designs invade the whole worldwide market as soon as next year!
E-Star Imaging Devices, Advertising Players, and Tablets
Posted by – August 14, 2013
E-Star is a Shenzhen based producer of electronics of various kinds including Android Tablets and Advertising players. They have a factory that employs around 200 people. They sell around 3,000 tablets per month. More information about the company can be found at http://www.goestar.com/
Products Include:
Hd video projector. They were showing a RMB being zoomed in and project upon. The price is 269 USD. They sell around 10,000 of these per month.
Advertising video player. A large screen designed to display advertisements. The price is 400 USD. The screen is 1080p resolution and running on a rather vague A10 processor most likely Allwinner. The advertizing video players come in various configurations and run either Linux or Android.
9.7″ Android Tablet with RK3066. The price is 58 USD. They also have unspecified tablet with an Actions CPU and Armlogic.
Filmed at the HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2013
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ARMdevices.net Shenzhen Sourcing Service launched
Posted by – August 12, 2013
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Allwinner E200 Powered Gajah InkCase E Ink phablet case to be $99- $129
Posted by – August 3, 2013
Gajah International design house shows a unique Allwinner E200 powered E Ink Bluetooth case for you Galaxy Note 2 smartphone/phablet. “InkCase” works like a second casing or another panel for your gadget, On the back side of the casing you find E Ink panel serves as second panel to display photographs, you can read e-book, see the pop-up’s of Facebook and Twitter too. You can have eye on weather apps from your phone and all viewable apps you can see through this second panel. It works on Bluetooth connectivity has micro USB port for charging InkCase. Inside it has memory to facilitate switch over to next picture/page and to do this back panel has two keys.Price yet to be finalised may expect between $99-$129 You can have look here in this video of InkCase for Samsung S2. InkCase is also available for iPhones but works only as photo viewer, . Two colour variants Black & White are available.
The problem is the way this one works is to beam pictures that it has to transmit, decode, instead of sending data to interpret and integrate in clever apps on the E Ink case device. That makes for slowish e-reader mode for now. But maybe they can improve this in software and other device like it a bit better integrated and much thinner and lighter could be huge advancement for changing the back-cover on your smartphone that has removable back-cover or for adding a back-casing to your smartphone and phablet to use the back surface of your devices for new smart potentially ultra-low power E Ink functionality.
Reference Link:
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E-shine tablet component provider shows Morgan Touch active pen technology
Posted by – July 29, 2013
E-shine is provider of components to other companies who want to create their own devices. They ship around $500 million worth of components every year. The don’t really make their own and rely mostly on the sale of components. They provide components for companies like Panasonic and touchpads for Synaptics. For more Solutions Demonstrated Tablet LCDs. Solutions for Rockchip processors. To produce a Rk3188 tablet with 16gb of ROM, 2gb of RAM, and a 9.7″ retina display would cost around 166 USD for 1,000 units. Dock-able Keyboard Tablet from go-clever 5″ Galaxy Note like device with a 960×640 resolution. The device uses an unspecified Qualcomm processor and 1gb of ram. The device appears to have a stylus. The price is 137 USD. An unspecified 8″ tablet with a Rockchip rk3066 which is soon to be upgrade to a Rockchip RK3028 next month. A Rockchip tablet with Morgan Touch technology was shown. Morgan Touch is an active pen technology similar to Wacom’s technology that is not only cheaper but more precise. I am pen user so hopefully this technology finds its way into more tablets. The solution can be added to Android tablets for an additional 25 dollars. For those interested in Morgan Touch go to their website http://www.morgan-touch.com/ For other E-shine solutions they can be found at http://e-shine.cn
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Mobile Mirror by Shenzhen Feifantai Technology Co.,Ltd (faytech) and Xplace
Here is an Innovative multi channel product “Mobile Mirror” steering PC device has Magic Mirror App to steer PC without touching the screen. You can take picture and share it instantly. It uses Hassel 60 Camera technology for better viewing and control. Integrated with touch PC system, software design by Fraunhofer Institute. It uses camera and finger for PC interaction. Already in use in some clothes stores in Germany.
Reference Link:
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Contact faytech (serious importers/distributors only please):
faytech ltd. (Shenzhen Feifantai Technology Co., Ltd)
Foreign Sales Team
Tel.: +86-755 89580612
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Company website: http://www.faytech.com
OMAP4470 Glasses-free 3D 10.1″ tablet by Hampoo
Posted by – July 19, 2013
Category: Tablets, Displays, Software, Exclusive videos, Members Content, Texas Instruments, Computex, Android
1. Glass-free 3D Tab from Hampoo science & Technology Co. Ltd
First of its kind in the world,Glass free 10.1ich 3D Tablet which converts 2D photo/videos and 2D games to 3D visual experience. Snehesh Sinha a Lead Key Account Generator from Hampoo is describing Glass Free 3D 10.1 inch TAB in Tablet Trade Show.
Features:
– Plays all 3D &3D Video & Games/Photo
– Converts 2D Videos n Games into 3D
– Naked eye 3D experience
– Handy control in the application on the lhs of screen to amplify the
2D Videos to 3D
– Far and behind option to reach back side of the screen to when
viewing 3D Videos/
Technical Specifications:
– Android OS
– 10.1”, 1920 X 1200 IPS Screen
– Wi-Fi/3G Support for smart 3G Video games
– 2D TO 3D Special Software Engine
– 50+ Games support
– 3D Photo & Video player
– GPU- SGX544 With 3D accelerator
2. OMAP4430 cortex A-9 TABS FOR Vertical Applications from Hampoo
Here is another Tab for vertical application from Hampoo.
A handy tool for Medical, Restaurants , Logistics,& Custom Apps
– Bar code scanner
– RFID sensor
Specifications:
– 1D & 2D Barcode scanner
– Wi-Fi roaming switch over time < 1 sec
– TI OMAP 4430, Cortex A-9 Duel core 1.9Ghz
– Front 2MP camera, Rear 5 MP
– 1G LPDDR2 RAM/ 16 G ROM
– Blue Tooth 4.0/ AGPS
– Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n
– NFC
This product is already in use in one of the major Restaurant chain group in US.
Reference Link:
http://www.hampoo.com/en
https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/en_US/product/info.html?id=EFE0076A286722DF22EC395E2D67AB04
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2013/06/07/552728/10035647/en/DDD-licenses-TriDef-3D-to-Hampoo-for-glasses-free-3D-tablets.html
http://www.3dfocus.co.uk/3d-news-2/worlds-first-10-1-glasses-free-3d-tablet-for-2013/13368
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Cambrios Silver nanowires to revolutionize touch screens and displays
Posted by – June 9, 2013
Sriram Peruvemba is the new Chief Marketing Officer at Cambrios, the company that is shipping silver nanowire based inks to the transparent and flexible conductor markets. Their ClearOhm material is already replacing ITO and enables high-conductivity transparent film ranging from 10 to 300 Ohms/square. In this video, Sri showed us examples of products already in the market – All-In-One computers from LG Electronics, large area monitors from eTurbotouch, mobile phones from NEC/NTT Docomo, kiosk monitors from G-Vision etc.- that use their ClearOhm silver nanowires. While at Computex we saw more and more devices with touch screens in them, the market appears to be growing rapidly and having more transparent and more conductive touch screens makes perfect sense. And with electronic paper and flexible OLED products getting close to mass production, transparent conductors that can also be flexible/bendable/rollable would be very desirable. We will bring you more updates on this technology in future videos.
