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Voice is Great for TV Control…. Sometimes….

by Bob Raikes

I enjoyed Pete’s article about the developments in remote controls a couple of weeks ago. (Losing the TV Remote Control (Intentionally)). His conclusion was that we might want to replace remote controls with voice …

Tags:Remote Controls| STBs| TV Viewing| Voice Input

AWE Europe Round-up

by Bob Raikes

We went along for a day to the AWE Europe event in Munich, mainly to get a chance to see the latest Varjo headset (covered in a DD last week). Of course, while we …

Tags:Augmented Reality| AWE Europe 2019| Health and Safety| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

Varjo Pushes The Envelope on VR Performance

by Bob Raikes

I’m a great believer that understanding display technology is only half the story. If you don’t understand the human side of the interface, you don’t really understand the display. So, when I see companies …

Tags:AWE Europe 2019| Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

Has OLED Cleared a Hurdle for IT?

by Bob Raikes

I was struggling to choose a topic for my DD this week. There is lots happening in the display field, especially in large displays, with developments in dual layer LCDs, miniLED backlights, QDOLED and …

So, When is 8K not 8K – LG has a View!

by Bob Raikes

Well, unsurprisingly, one of the hot topics for TV set makers and brands at IFA was 8K. The question that was provoked by LG’s booth was “When is 8K not 8K?”. What did they …

Touch Taiwan Round-up – MiniLED and Touch

by Bob Raikes

Last week and yesterday, I posted pieces about some of the work at ITRI that was talked about at Touch Taiwan. But there was much, much more to see. It’s no surprise that miniLED …

ITRI Fixes a ‘Guilty Display Secret’ at Touch Taiwan

by Bob Raikes

I’m intrigued by the way industries are often able to suppress their ‘guilty little secrets’, that is to say, weaknesses that the industry knows about, but that consumers and buyers don’t understand. At Touch …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)| Touch Taiwan 2019| Transparent Displays

ITRI at Touch Taiwan with Breakthrough Customisation Technology

by Bob Raikes

It’s a truism of the LCD manufacturing world that none of the big panel makers would have been in the business without a lot of support from their respective governments. In Taiwan, ITRI, the …

Tags:LCD Fabs| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch Taiwan 2019

Philips Moving on with Second Generation HDMI Monitor (TV)

by Bob Raikes

The life of a display industry observer and analyst can involve some slightly surprising interests and events. This year, for the first time, I attended the annual gaming jamboree that is Gamescom in Cologne …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| MMD (AOC Philips)| TVs (TV Sets)

Discount Code for DD Readers!

by Bob Raikes

The client-to-cloud ecosystem is going through a revolution where cloud and independent platforms like PC, console, mobile, and other devices are developing new types of collaboration in distribution, and software and content execution. With …

Tags:Events

Looking Forward to Touch Taiwan

by Bob Raikes

It’s several years since I have been to Taiwan, so I’m specially pleased to be going, this year to the Touch Taiwan exhibition in Taipei. Justifying the cost of overseas trips for news is …

LED Doesn’t Scale Like LCD

by Bob Raikes

A couple of years ago, I write a Display Daily about an insight I had come to about how pricing in LED displays works (What LED Has to Do to Be Truly Disruptive). The …

Tags:LCD displays| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Video Walls