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Samsung to Switch to In-folding Devices

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display has been showing design concepts of foldable phones and other devices for some years. Most of them had ‘fold in’ displays where the display surfaces are folded to face each other. However, …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Dual Layer LCDs Exciting but Power Hungry

by Bob Raikes

We decided to make a combined LDM/MDM issue this week as we were trying to catch up after finishing the IBC report. We didn’t think you would mind as we have produced a lot …

ViewSonic Projectors Deliver High Value for Money

by Bob Raikes

ViewSonic has two new DLP projectors for education and corporate use. The PG703X has 1024 x 768 resolution while PG703W has 1280 x 800 and they both produce 4,000 Ansi lumens with a throw …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Projectors| ViewSonic| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Taiwan’s EOSRL Planning 2018 MicroLED Production

by Bob Raikes

ITRI’s display group, the Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL) is working on micro-LED displays that could be used for large TV scale devices in conjunction with Macroblock, which develops LED drivers. EOSRL …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Taiwan| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Intel’s Project Alloy is Over

by Bob Raikes

Somehow, some of our comments on Intel at IBC didn’t make it into our IBC report. Intel was showing an Asus PC with an Oculus Rift to show how its new processors could cope …

Absen Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Ligra for The Italian Market

by Bob Raikes

Absen has signed Ligra of Italy as an exclusive distributor and the company has invested in $450,000 of inventory to support clients. Absen said that it would provide sales and technical support to Ligra …

IBC Interest is Mainly in Smaller Displays

by Bob Raikes

Quite a few of the interesting display developments at IBC were previewed at NAB, but many of the products were shown for the first time in Europe. For us, a highlight was the Eizo …

IBC 2017 LED Display Roundup

by Bob Raikes

IBC is an important event for companies that are in the LED market and that want to supply the fine-pitch LEDs that many broadcasters like to have as video walls in their studios. Most …

Samsung Sets Out Plans for S-Pen

by Bob Raikes

Samsung published an interview with one of its own engineers, Hyesoon Jeong, about the development of the Signature S Pen in the Galaxy Note 8. She said that the aim had been to add …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Indoor Mapping Now in iOS 11

by Bob Raikes

Apple’s latest iOS11 release has some new facilities for mapping inside buildings. The system already has maps for a number of major shopping malls as well as transport hubs, including Heathrow Airport. A US …

EBU Defines Mastering Monitor Requirements

by Bob Raikes

The EBU, the trade association that represents public broadcasters in Europe, has defined a new version of its requirements for reference monitors. Version 4 has been amended to allow for high dynamic range (HDR) …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| EBU| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Soneira Highlights Dynamic Colour Management

by Bob Raikes

Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies Corp has published an article about the importance and variability of display performance in high ambient light, using a Samsung 65Q9 QLED TV, which he identifies as having …