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The Highest Resolution AR Display in the World?

by Bob Raikes

Last week, I was in Madrid for the WorldATM Congress (Air Traffic Management) and I saw a replica of what might be the highest resolution augmented reality system in the world (unless you know …

Tags:Air Traffic Control (ATC)| Augmented Reality| Aviation| LFD - Large Format Display| Samsung Display| UK (United Kingdom)| Video Walls

The Challenges of the European TV Market

by Bob Raikes

A few years ago, when the flat TV market was new and lots of companies saw this as an opportunity to disrupt the CRT TV market and jump into the scene (it didn’t work …

Tags:Broadcast| DVB| DVB-T & T2| Europe| France| Switzerland| TV Viewing| TVs (TV Sets)

Clearink Driving on with Low Power Display

by Bob Raikes

Clearink is an intriguing company that I have been writing about since it came out of stealth mode in 2016 at SID and was one of my four highlights of that event. It has …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Reflective Display

In, Out, In, Out and Shake it all about!

by Bob Raikes

My headline is from a dance game in the UK and seemed appropriate for my Display Daily which takes a look at the Samsung Galaxy Flex phone, which was shown last week at a …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Huawei| MWC 2019| Samsung| Smartphones

Samsung’s Colour Performance Seems to Have Reduced with 8K

by Bob Raikes

I suddenly realised today that the reason I hadn’t heard from any of my Display Daily contributors about today’s column was that it was my turn. Oops! Anyway, I have learned over the years …

Tags:Energy Star| Power Consumption| Samsung| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

Impressions of ISE 2019

by Bob Raikes

I’m just on an Easyjet flight on the way back from the ISE show in Amsterdam after a couple of days of back to back meetings with vendors and their supply chain. I thought …

Tags:ISE 2019| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony

CES 2019 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

My main purpose in visiting CES this year was to catch up with trends in monitors, panels and interfaces that were important to the clients for our DisplayCast Market Research product and we managed …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| CES 2019| Codecs| eReaders| Flexible Displays| LED| Smartphones

LG Display Makes a Breakthrough in Large Interactive Displays

by Bob Raikes

Last week, I covered one of the panel trends that I saw at last week’s CES show (If One LCD is Not Enough, Try Two) and on Monday, Sweta covered a number of the …

Tags:CES 2019| Interactive Displays| LFD - Large Format Display| LG Displays (LGD)| Touch

If One LCD is Not Enough, Try Two

by Bob Raikes

In September of 2017, at the IBC show in Amsterdam, I had an epiphany. For nearly 20 years, I have said that ‘OLED has my heart, but LCD has my head’. However, at that …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| CES 2019| Dual Panel LCDs| Eizo| LCD Backlights| LCD displays| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

The Beginning of the End for Satellite TV Broadcast?

by Bob Raikes

I’m at CES, in the middle of the press day and I did think about writing about the first impressions, but I’ll leave that for later in the week. In the meantime, there was …

Tags:Broadcast| Satellite| Streaming Video

Royole to Showcase Its Game-Changing Flexible+ Platform at CES 2019

by Bob Raikes

Royole Corporation, a leading innovator and manufacturer of next-generation human-machine interface technologies and products, including advanced flexible displays, flexible sensors, and smart devices, will be showcasing its full line of industry-leading fully flexible display …

The End of Fungibility in the Display Business?

by Bob Raikes

In the run-up to the holiday period there were a number of news items about problems at LCD maker, Chunghwa Picture Tube (CPT), that fit my definition of ‘an inflection point’. It got me …

Tags:CPT| LCD Fabs| Reorganisation & Restructuring