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Samsung Working on VRR & FreeSync TVs

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has confirmed that some of its 2018 TVs will support FreeSync up to 120Hz (Big Screen TVs for Gaming to be Stutter Proofed) for gaming. Samsung in Europe has said that its NU8000 …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Tom’s Hardware Likes the Vive Pro

by Bob Raikes

Tom’s Hardware has reviewed the HTC Vive Pro headset that was shown to us at CES. (HTC Vive Pro Matches Visuals of Samsung Odyssey) The website highlighted the reduced screen door effect and improved …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 13

JCD Promotes Beauty in CDG Paris

by Bob Raikes

JCDecaux Airport Paris has a new retail area called the New Age Buy Paris Duty Free in T2E of Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. It is operated by Société de Distribution Aéroportuaire, a Groupe ADP …

Tags:Aviation| DOOH| France| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 25 - Issue 13

LG Display Expands Module Capacity in China

by Bob Raikes

Business Korea reports that LG Display has finished converting a factory used, at one time for the manufacture of PDP modules, and subsequently by LG Chem, for the production of LCD modules. The factory, …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| LCD Module Assembly| LG Displays (LGD)| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Apple

Apple to Ditch Intel CPUs?

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg has reported that Apple plans to move away from using Intel chips in its Mac product line and move to its own chips, based on the Arm architecture and currently used in Apple’s …

Tags:Apple| Chips| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Xiaomi

LDM&MDM Vol 25 #13 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has introduced the Mi Gaming Laptop, a 15.6″ notebook with Nvidia GTX1050Ti or GTX1060 graphics, USB Type C and four USB 3.0 ports. The machine has 16GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD and …

Tags:China| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 25 - Issue 13| Xiaomi

visionox

Black Cattle OLED Fab Receives Additional Funding

by Bob Raikes

Black Cattle Foods (BCF) is a Chinese soyabeen producer which is getting into OLED panel manufacture, with help from Visionox. (Visionox Developing a 814 PPI AMOLED for VR). The OLED-A reported that the company …

Tags:China| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 25 - Issue 13

TDDI Chips To Reach 5 Million in 2018

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research has forecast that shipments of TDDI (touch and display driver integrated) chips will hit five million in 2018 with Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies expected start shipping in volume. Synaptics and FocalTech …

Tags:Display Drivers| Mobile Display Monitor| Synaptics| Touch Controllers| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Samsung Odyssey Z is for Gamers – Notebook 3 & 5 for Some Countries

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Electronics today announced the Samsung Notebook Odyssey Z, a thin and light laptop, that has been designed to optimise the gaming experience. It has a 15.6″ FullHD display. It was launched in Beijing, …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Oppo Phones Use OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Oppo has released two new phones in China which both have 6.28″ FullHD+ OLEDs with full screens. The R15 has a MediaTek Helio P60 processor while the R15 Dream Mirror Edition uses a Snapdragon …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Apple

GS Reduces iPhone Forecast

by Bob Raikes

Goldman Sachs has downgraded its forecast for iPhone sales and expects 53 million sales in Q1 (down 1.7 million) and 40.3 million in Q2, down 3.2 million from its previous forecast. Over the whole …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

New VR desktop is for Linux

by Bob Raikes

Safespaces is a new way of getting a Linux desktop in a VR environment. The environment is still in development, but runs on top of the Arcan display server. You can check out the …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 13