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BC03 A ‘Refreshing’ View from China

by Bob Raikes

Lisa Lee is from Sigmaintell in China and this was the first time that she, or the firm, has presented at SID and her talk was called ‘Refreshing’. Market growth in the panel industry …

Tags:China| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| TV Set Market| Vol 25 - Issue 21

BC02 Mizhuo Thinks Investment is a ‘Bit Crazy’

by Bob Raikes

Nakane-san is from Mizhuo Securities and, like Ross Young, the previous speaker, he is another veteran of the display industry. He had more than 150 slides – also with a lot of text! Not …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 21

BC01 Young Sets out the Development of LCDs & OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker was Ross Young, who talked about the year and introduced DSCC which is now two years old and has eight employees. The company now has four OLED reports, two display cost …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| SID Display Week 2018| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 21

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Kobo Has a new eEreader

by Bob Raikes

Kobo has a new entry level eReader that has a 6″ E Ink display with 300 ppi. When we spotted the story, we were intrigued by a comment about the colour of the display, …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| eReaders| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 21

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Canalys Looks for Stability from PC & Tablet Markets

by Bob Raikes

UK-based Analyst, Canalys, has forecast that PCs this year will enter an ‘era of stability’ and that PCs and tablets combined will drop 2.1% this year to 398 million units. In the commercial sector, …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Fujitsu 34″ Monitor is Curved

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu has a new monitor for professional applications, the Display B34-9U LED which has a 34.1″ diagonal (3440 x 1440) curved (1900R) design that will be available in Japan from July at ¥270,000 ($2,479). …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Fujitsu| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 21

OLED TV Forecast from Sigmaintell

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell Research of China reported that Q1 of 2018 saw sales of 510,000 OLED TVs globally, a significant growth of 127% compared to Q1 of 2017, despite the overall low growth in TV, especially …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 21

NEC Showcase Highlights Partners

by Bob Raikes

NEC Display Solutions held its annual Showcase event in London in May. The event is run with partners and is very strongly directed towards solutions and the added value that NEC can bring with …

Tags:audio| Collaboration| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| NEC| QSRs & Menu Boards| Retail| Vol 25 - Issue 20

Light Polymers Crystallin Film is for Micro and Mini LED Applications

by Bob Raikes

Light Polymers of the US has announced Crystallin technology which is a phosphor-based down-conversion film for use with blue Micro and Mini LED’s. The colour gamut can reach 85% of DCI P3 for the …

Tags:Film materials| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 21

An Inflection Point at SID

by Bob Raikes

I’ve been in the US this week for the SID Display Week. Thanks to the team for getting the issues done even though we were strained because of time differences! As I was keen …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 20

ITEC 2018 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

3D Perception had a demonstration that used an NBox multichannel processor for six channels of high end simulation in a 4K 120Hz configuration. The company has a system that puts hardware sensors into domes …

Tags:ITEC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Rockwell Collins| Simulation| Vol 25 - Issue 20

Vioso Can Support Warp and Blend

by Bob Raikes

Vioso is a name that was familiar to us and it took a while to work out why! It was because we bumped into the company with its partner, Antycip, at the Laval Virtual …

Tags:Image Generators| ITEC 2018| Large Display Monitor| Simulation| Vol 25 - Issue 20