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LDM Vol 25 Issue 23 Product Roundup

by Bob Raikes

LG told us about its HU80KA UltraHD projector at CES 2018 and has now made it available to consumers at a starting price of $2,999.99. Loewe of Germany has added a 65″ OLED model …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 23

McDonalds’ Plans Include More Technology

by Bob Raikes

There’s a new CEO at McDonalds, Steve Easterbrook, has given an interesting interview to CNBC. In the interview, he addresses the issue of the use of kiosks in the company’s sites. Easterbrook has moved …

Tags:Kiosks| Large Display Monitor| QSRs & Menu Boards| Vol 25 - Issue 24

Lenovo Expands Gaming Notebook Range

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo has introduced new notebooks using its Legion gaming sub-brand. The Y730 and Y530 have 17″ and 15″ IPS LCD displays with 144Hz frame rates and 300 cd/m² of output which are driven by …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 23

AOC Claims 1ms MPRT for Curved Gaming

by Bob Raikes

AOC has three new curved monitor models designed for gaming. The C24G1, C27G1 and C32G1 range from 23.6” to 27” and 31.5” and have VA FullHD LCD panels with curvature from 1500mm to 1800mm. …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 25 - Issue 23

PMA Research Highlights UltraHD Projection Growth

by Bob Raikes

We recently spotted some reports that were highlighting the growth of UltraHD/4K projectors and the dramatic drop in pricing, so when we bumped into them at Infocomm, we asked our favourite projector market analysts, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Projectors| UltraHD| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Net Neutrality?

by Bob Raikes

It’s not strictly a display story, but we do enjoy the ascerbic commentary on telecomms from Strand Consulting. The company has an interesting article on the issue of Net Neutrality in the US, written, …

Tags:Back Panel| internet| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Telecomms| Vol 25 - Issue 23

IC09 Other speakers at the Investors’ Conference.

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker in the afternoon session was the CEO of Cynora, Gildas Sorin, but he didn’t add anything to the presentation at the business conference although he did say that the firm is …

Tags:Film materials| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| TADF| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC08 Mattrix is the New NVerPix – with New Switches

by Bob Raikes

Mattrix Technologies was previously NVerPix – a company that we reported on in 2016 when it announced its technology (and won the iZone award nVerpix Shows Breakthrough OLED Pixel Design) However, the founders fell …

Tags:CNTs (Carbon Nanotubes)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC07 PixelDisplay Continues to Progress

by Bob Raikes

David Wyatt is from PixelDisplay, a company that we have reported on from SID last year and CES this year. He is an engineer from Nvidia and invented the company’s VividColor technology. Chris did …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Phosphors| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

IC06 FlexEnable Heading for Profitability with Displays and Sensors

by Bob Raikes

FlexEnable was represented by its CEO, Chuck Milligan. He explained how the company had developed a G3.5 fab in Dresden, Germany, because of the scale of its investment (under the name, Plastic Logic). Unfortunately, …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Organic TFTs| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Samsung launches 2018 ‘NU’ LCD ranges

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has added new TVs in the NU model range, which replace the MU models from last year and are best described as ‘mid-range’. The NU8 models have features for gaming such as variable …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 23

IC05 Amorphyx Can Replace TFTs with Quantum Tunnelling

by Bob Raikes

Amorphyx is a new company that is working on new technology for backplanes and the CEO is John Brewer who started by saying that TFTs have very bad performance and the industry needs to …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| SID Display Week 2018| TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 21