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Nanosys Sued over OLED Patents

by Bob Raikes

Consumer Electronics Daily has reported that Nanosys has been sued by NNCrystal USA over patents for quantum dots. Jason Hartlove of Nanosys told DSCC that the firm believes that the claim has no merit …

Tags:Litigation| Nanosys| Patents

Why is Dual Panel LCD vs OLED a Hot Topic?

by Bob Raikes

There’s no doubt that dual layer LCD is a bit of a hot topic at the moment and one of the comments we got last week after Ken’s article (OLED and Dual Cell TV: …

Tags:Dual Panel LCDs| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| warranty

SiliconCore Opens up to New LED Opportunities

by Bob Raikes

This week, I had the chance to catch up with SiliconCore, an LED developer and display maker that I have always enjoyed talking to. I have also always enjoyed looking at their displays – …

Tags:Display Drivers| LED Drivers| MicroLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

TV Session at Display Week Business Conference Shows Prescience

by Bob Raikes

In my years of Display Weeks, I have attended all of the Business Conference Days, I think. They really are a great chance to get a snapshot of the key business and economic factors …

Tags:IHS Markit| Market Data| NPD| SID Display Week 2019| TVs (TV Sets)

The Beginning of the End – or Just the End of the Beginning?

by Bob Raikes

One of the friends that I met last week at SID’s Display Week last week (and there were a lot!) was Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies. He’s been looking closely at the OnePlus …

Tags:Apple| Colour Management & Processing| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones

SID Display Week – An Impressionistic View

by Bob Raikes

The SID has held fifty symposiums in the US to look in detail at developments in information displays and I have now attended half of them. These ‘Display Weeks’ as they are now known, …

Tags:Dual Panel LCDs| LCD displays| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2019| Smartphones

A Couple of Things I’ll Be Looking for at SID

by Bob Raikes

Next week is the annual get-together of the technologists of the display industry in the US, at the annual SID Display Week in San Jose, California. I’ll be there, and there are a couple …

Tags:BOE| Dual Panel LCDs| Hisense| LCD Backlights| LCD displays| OLEDs| sony| TCL

GFU Releases Market Data Infographic

by Bob Raikes

Around the time of its annual spring meeting to start the press build up towards IFA, the GFU of Germany has published this infographic of market data.

Tags:Market Data

JPR Conducting Workstation Survey

by Bob Raikes

Our colleague and occasional contributor, Dr. Jon Peddie, has wondered what people really think makes up a workstation. Toward that objective Jon has created a survey he’d like everyone to take, regardless of whether …

Tags:Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Workstations

The Long Path to Printing OLED is Too Long for DuPont

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, LG Chem finalised a deal with DuPont to buy its intellectual property related to its soluble OLED materials, paying $175 million, according to reports. We’ve been reporting on DuPont’s …

Tags:DuPont| InkJet Deposition| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Materials| OLEDs

What do European Broadcasters Think about 8K?

by Bob Raikes

Recently I spent a couple of days at the DVB World event in Dublin – an occasion when broadcasters and service providers get together to talk about TV and broadcasting. One of the topics …

Tags:Broadcast| Europe| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD