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ICDM Considering SID Support

by Bob Raikes

The ICDM, which is working on display measurement, has a proposal, to be voted on during the SID Display Week in May to get financial support from the SID for a three year period, …

Digital CRT Tube Resurrected

by Bob Raikes

We spotted an interesting article on a CRT numeric display tube that is called the Nimo. It never really caught on as there were many options at the time – all of which did …

Tags:Back Panel| CRT| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 12

HTC Has Terrrible Q4

by Bob Raikes

HTC had a poor Q4 in 2017 with a loss of NT$9.8 billion ($337.4 million) on revenues of NT$15.7 billion ($536 million). The company did a deal to sell its smartphone engineering group to …

Tags:Financial Data| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 13

LDM Vol 25 Issue 12 Product Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Hangar18 of Koprivnica, Croatia, has launched two LCD TVs under the Noa Vision brands with 32″ and 43″ sizes. Features highlighted include support for DVB-T2 signals and for DVR operation with external USB. The …

Huawei P20 Pro Camera Impresses

by Bob Raikes

Huawei’s Consumer Business Group announced the P20 Series smartphone which features the world’s first Leica triple camera. There are two versions with 5.8″ (P20) and 6.1″ (P20 Pro) displays, both with 1080 x 2244 …

Tags:Cameras| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Camera Impresses DxOMark

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has launched its Mi Mix 2S Android smartphone that is based on a 5.99″ IPS LCD with 1080 x 2160 resolution (18:9) and using Gorilla Glass 4. The processor is a Snapdragon 845 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 12| Xiaomi

US e-Waste Recycling Hero Facing Prison over Piracy Charge

by Bob Raikes

Big hat tip to the Washington Post and Seattle Times for this one, and if any US-based readers can help with this case you know what to do. Eric Lundgren is currently facing a …

Nvidia GPU Enables Photo Matching

by Bob Raikes

A group of scientists has developed an algorithm for Nvidia GPUs called FastPhotoStyle that will copy the style from one photograph to another. The results are surprisingly good and the algorithm is said to …

Leap Motion Developing AR Controls

by Bob Raikes

We were impressed with the latest version of the Leap Motion hand tracking technology when we saw it in a training application on the HTC Vive Pro at CES (HTC Vive Pro Matches Visuals …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Leap Motion| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Chicagon Magnificent Mile Goes LED

by Bob Raikes

A mall in Chicago, US, the ‘Magnificent Mile’ has a ceiling that is based on LED and that is used to show videos of the sky, trees and local birds as well as graphics. …

Samsung Finds Reason For Blue PHOLED Decline

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Electronics is working with the Ewha Womans University in Korea to understand the mechanism for the degradation of the performance of blue phosphorescent OLED materials and the group has published a paper on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 12

PTE 2018 Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Huawei has been in the news a lot and was at the show with a big video wall showing its systems technology. We saw this interesting application. It’s good to get travellers to use …