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Belfast Team Develops Bright Green QDs

by Bob Raikes

A research team at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, working with the ETH in Zurich, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Florida State University) and the National Taiwan University of Science and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PeLED (Perovskite LED)| Perovskite| Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 25 - Issue 05

Panasonic Adds Light ID-Enabled LFDs

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic has released two new LFDs, in the new SF2H series, that support the firm’s LinkRay modulated backlight technology. There are 70″ and 80″ models, TH-80SF2H / TH-70SF2H, both with edge-lit FullHD VA panels …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Li-Fi| Panasonic| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Yole Looks at MicroLED Patent Developments

by Bob Raikes

Yole Développement was at CES and looked at developments in microLED. The show highlighted the increasing interest in LED and the firm emphasised the developments from Samsung and Lumens (Lumens Idea of MicroLED is …

Tags:Market Data| MicroLED| Patents| Vol 25 - Issue 05

eCount Supports UltraHD Displays

by Bob Raikes

eCount Embedded in Germany has developed the CRTtoLCD-91 monitor controller that supports DisplayPort (1.4) and DVI inputs and connects with panels up to UltraHD at 60fps. The controller supports scaling as well as image …

Tags:Display Controllers| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 05

JCDecaux Sees 16.6% of Revenues from Digital

by Bob Raikes

JCDecaux said in its financial results that although Billboard sales were down 4.2% year on year, partly because of a smaller contribution from digital media, overall digital revenue increased by 35.3% on an organic …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| Financial Data| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Acer Takes Control of AOpen

by Bob Raikes

Acer has put three directors onto AOpen’s board following the investment in the company, and Acer chairman, Jason Chen has been voted in as Chairman at an investors’ conference on January 30th. (Acer Now …

Tags:Acer| Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 25 - Issue 04

BETT Sees Some Clear Trends

by Bob Raikes

There wasn’t much new in the way of technology at BETT this year, although there was a clear improvement in the performance of infrared touch systems which have got more compact and also have …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Pricing| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Dell Pushes L/P Projector Prices Down

by Bob Raikes

Dell had a strong presence with support from Intel and had a number of displays on show. There was a reasonably new touch display with 86″ diagonal, the C8618QT, which was shown at Infocomm …

Tags:Dell| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Promethean Fills Out Range at the Lower End

by Bob Raikes

Promethean had a big area in the hall and was also in the executive suites where it was talking about general technology developments from its parent company, NetDragon Websoft. Most of the news was …

Tags:Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Promethean| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Smart Responds to Lower Cost Demand

by Bob Raikes

Smart has a strong place in the education business in the UK and this year told us that it is addressing the market for lower cost systems which are in demand. Although the company …

Tags:BETT 2018| Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Smart Technologies Inc| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Acer Looking to Digital Signage Solutions

by Bob Raikes

We met with Fu Lo on the Acer booth and she is based in Düsseldorf (at Acer Being Signage GmbH) and looks after business in the digital signage segment. The company has been developing …

Tags:Acer| BETT 2018| Digital Signage| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Avocor Moves to Optical Bonding

by Bob Raikes

Avocor is doing pretty well for a UK-based company in the competitive world of interactive displays. The company was a highlight of last year, when it launched Windows-based displays using FlatFrog in-glass touch. This …

Tags:BETT 2018| Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04