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Samsung Forecast to Maintain Share in 2018

by Bob Raikes

The OLED Association published the following table showing historic and forecast shipments for TV companies and quotes IHS and Statista as the source.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TV Set Market| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Event Overload At Display Monitor HQ

by Bob Raikes

I’m pleased to be home today, after six days at Mobile World (including press days), a quick trip to Vienna for ECR (report in LDM this week), a visit to the Air Traffic Congress …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 09

MWC RoundUp Part 2

by Bob Raikes

Mantis Vision was showing a professional system for facial scanning that creates high quality avatars or images for use in access control systems. The images took a couple of minutes to produce, but were …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Blue Light| Gaze Recognition| Health and Safety| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| OTT Video| Touch Market| Transparent Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 09

MWC 2018 Roundup Part 1

by Bob Raikes

Abenecel was at the 4YFN event and is based in Korea. The company is a technology licensing company that has a patented compression pre-processing system that can be used for graphics files and can …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Codecs| Flexible Displays| Interfaces| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Projectors| Retail| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Haier Projects a Positive Image

by Bob Raikes

Haier was showing its smartphones, of course, but the first product that caught our eye was a projector that is designed to shine onto a surface and supports touch on that surface. The unit …

Tags:Haier| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Projectors| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09

DisplayLink Still Upbeat

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink continued its positive development and, as at CES, it had a much bigger booth at MWC this year, where it had the same demos that it showed in Las Vegas, including the wireless …

Tags:DisplayLink| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Nubia Aims at Gamers

by Bob Raikes

Nubia Smartphone was showing a new prototype phone for gaming use. The phone uses a 6″ FullHD+ 18:9 display and is based on a Snapdragon 645 processor with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of …

Tags:Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Koreans Concerned about Inkjet OLED Developments in China

by Bob Raikes

At the 2018 OLED Korea event recently, JOLED of Japan explained its progress in developing inkjet printing of displays. It can achieve, it says, 300 ppi or more on G8 substrates. Samples of a …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Korea| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| TCL| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Saturn Has a No Cashier Store

by Bob Raikes

MediaMarkt Saturn is trialling a new retail concept in Austria. At a new Saturn Express in Innsbruck, customers can use a special app at the shelf to scan a QR code on the item …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MediaMarkt (Saturn)| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Mitsubishi Electric Receives IEEE Milestone for Outdoor Displays

by Bob Raikes

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced that the company’s Diamond Vision series of outdoor large-scale color display systems has received the prestigious IEEE Milestone award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mitsubishi| Outdoor Displays| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Broomx Finds Applications for Entry-Level Caves

by Bob Raikes

One of the few booths at MWC that was about large displays, was Broomx, who we reported on last year, who had a small booth in the 4YFN area and a small demo room …

Tags:CAVEs| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Asus Has Big Launch for ZenFone 5

by Bob Raikes

In the last couple of years, Asus has had less of a presence at MWC than in previous years. However, this year it came back with a ‘bang’, hosting an event in Barcelona on …

Tags:Asus| Convertible PCs| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Qualcomm| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 09