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Red Hydrogen One Starts Shipping

by Bob Raikes

Camera developer Red has started shipping the Hydrogen One smartphone that we reported on previously. There are two cases, with the aluminium one at $1,295 and the titanium version at $1,595. There is a …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Red| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 41

Tokyo Electron IJP is for Automotive and IT Applications

by Bob Raikes

Tokyo Electron has announced a new inkjet printing system for making OLED panels. The Elius 1000 system can print the RG and B pixels at the same time and supports substrates up to G4.5 …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 41

Shanxi Kuntech Kicks Off Flexible OLED Project

by Bob Raikes

Shanxi Kuntech has held a kick-off ceremony for a flexible AMOLED factory in China. The plan is to build a Gen 4 R&D production line and a G6 Flexible AMOLED fab with a capacity …

Tags:AMOLED| China| Flexible Displays| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 25 - Issue 41

Valve Smoothing

SteamVR Looks to Make VR more Available

by Bob Raikes

Valve has developed a new feature of SteamVR that is called “motion smoothing” and is intended to allow higher frame rates with lower powered graphics cards or higher resolutions with more powerful cards when …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Steam Consoles| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 41

Tom Likes Asus Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Tom’s Hardware has reviews the Asus ROG Swift PG27U that is an UltraHD monitor with 1,000 cd/m². Although the monitor costs $2,000, the site thinks it is ‘worth every penny’. The monitor has 384 …

Tags:Asus| Back Panel| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 41

Dune Adds Projector and Media Players

by Bob Raikes

Dune HD has a new portable projector and a number of new UltraHD media players. The projector is 11 x 11 cm and weighs 330gms. The image size is from 10″ to 120″ and …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Mobile Display Monitor| Projectors| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 41

LDM Product Roundup Vol 25 #41

by Bob Raikes

Chief has new slim display cabinets that can be less than 10cm (4″) thick, where the display is less than 70mm (2.75″) thick. The cabinets are available for 49″, 50″ and 55″ sizes. JVC …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Chief| Display Controllers| GPUs| Interactive Displays| JVC| Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 25 - Issue 41

miniLED and Cinema

by Bob Raikes

Last week, I wrote a couple of articles about miniLED and microLED. () At the time, I was working on the concept that the only difference between the categories was the size of the …

Tags:Cinema| Editorial| Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| MiniLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 40

IHS Webinar on Manufacturing and Investment

by Bob Raikes

Respected analyst, Charles Annis of IHS, is giving a webinar Monday, October 22 at 9:00 am PT / 12:00 am ET on the topic of FPD Manufacturing Technology & Investment Trends. The webinar will …

Tags:Back Panel| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 40

Renesas Upgrades Auto SoCs

by Bob Raikes

Renesas has announced E3, the latest in its R-Car family of SoCs which are intended for use in automotive clusters, specifically, 12.3″ displays with 1920 x 720 resolution and featuring 3D graphics. The chip …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Renesas| Semiconductors| Vol 25 - Issue 41

US Majors Commit to ATSC 3.0

by Bob Raikes

At the 2018 NAB Show New York, executives from Fox Television Stations; NBC and Telemundo Owned Stations Group; Univision; TEGNA (for Pearl TV), and Nexstar Media Group (for SpectrumCo) announced their collaborative effort and …

Tags:ATSC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB NY 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 41

LDM Product Roundup Vol 25 #40

by Bob Raikes

Atlantic Devices has released ‘generation 3’ of its ‘e-blackboard’. The unit embeds an LCD embedded in a traditional blackboard and is intended for education use. The centre display supports PCap touch with FullHD (70″/400 …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Display Mounts| Education| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Peerless AV| Philips| Simulation| ViewSonic| Vol 25 - Issue 40