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Roku IPO Goes Well

by Bob Raikes

Roku completed its IPO with 18 million shares sold along with a 2.35 million allocation of additional shares by the underwriter at $14. The IPO valued the company at $2 billion. The share price …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Dongles| Vol 24 - Issue 37

PTC Updates Vuforia AR Platform

by Bob Raikes

PTC said that it is releasing a new version of the Vuforia AR development platform. The company claims that Vuforia is the world’s most widely used platform for AR development. With support for leading …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Marseille’s $150 HDMI Cable Boosts Visuals

by Bob Raikes

Marseille has a new mCable HDMI cable that has a custom anti-aliasing filter based on a DSP chip that is claimed to reduce jaggies without adding blur at frame rates up to 120fps in …

Tags:HDMI| HDTV| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Innolux Starts SmartWatch Display Manufacturing

by Bob Raikes

Innolux, following its showing of a wide range of products shown at Touch Taiwan (Plenty to See at Touch Taiwan) , Innolux has started to produce a new 1.39″ 400 x 400 flexible AMOLED …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Innolux| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Sony Tweaks PlayStation VR

by Bob Raikes

Sony has updated the Playstation VR headset by allowing the headphone cable to be integrated into the main cable. The design also allows HDR passthrough from the PS4 to the TV. The headset will …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Roku Updates Range with Another UHD Product

by Bob Raikes

Roku has added a new streaming stick, the Roku Streaming Stick+ which adds HDR and UltraHD support to match some of the company’s existing boxes. HDR support is implemented with HDR10 and will cost …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| Streaming Dongles| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 37

E Ink Used in San Diego

by Bob Raikes

An art installation at the San Diego International Airport features 2,000 solar powered E Ink tiles showing animations designed by 15 artists. The artworks are designed specifically for the building and use the concept …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Chinese Monitor Market Struggling

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell of China has issued data on the Chinese monitor market which fell to 16 million units in the first half of 2016, down 9% compared to last year, with 7.8 million shipped in …

Tags:China| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Sigmaintell Details OEM TV Shipments

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell has published its results for the TV OEM market in the first half of 2017. The company said that volumes in the TV market as a whole dropped by 7.1% year on year, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 37

FoVI3D

FoVI3D Installs Metrology System for Field of Light Displays

by Bob Raikes

FoVI3D has installed a light-field display metrology system at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The equipment is intended for the test, validation, and performance evaluation of a new FoLD display. The FoVI3D delivered Field of …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Measurement| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37

GL Vision Develops QD Film for LED Backlights

by Bob Raikes

GL Vision of Korea said that it has developed a new QDEF quantum dot film that has integrated water and oxygen barriers and based on its own QD manufacturing. The company sees applications in …

Tags:Film materials| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 37

3M to Outsource DBEF Production

by Bob Raikes

3M has done well over the years with its DBEF dual brightness enhancement film, which is a reflective polariser film that helps LCD makers to get more of the photons from a backlight to …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Film materials| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 37