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ZetaDisplay To Acquire Seasam

by Bob Raikes

Nordic digital signage company, ZetaDisplay, has bought Finnish specialist Seasam for $5 million in cash and financed by news loans and new common shares in ZetaDisplay. Seasam has over 1100 sites in Finland and …

PSCo takes on Epson’s Laser Projectors

by Bob Raikes

The PSCo division of Midwich has signed an exclusive distribution deal for its laser-based installation projectors for the UK. PSCo runs a rental business and will invest in inventory for that use as well …

Tags:Distribution| Epson| Large Display Monitor| Midwich plc| Vol 24 - Issue 22

JDI to Defer JOLED Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

JDI said this week that it would delay its investment in JOLED until 2018 after originally planning to buy a large stake this year. The date of the acquisition will be decided by the …

Apple Adopts HEVC Across the Range

by Bob Raikes

Apple said at its developer’s conference that it would update the tvOS used on the Apple TV and will include new features including support for the HEVC codec, on Apple TVs from version 4. …

Tags:Apple| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

AUO revenues up slightly in May

by Bob Raikes

AUO saw revenues in May up 1% up on April and 4.7% up on May 2016. The company sold 9.15 million large LCDs in May, up 5.7% on April. Small medium panel shipments were …

Satellite Preferred Method of UHD Delivery

by Bob Raikes

Advanced Television has detailed some figures released by Eutelsat Italia following a survey of 122 managers from broadcast companies on UltraHD. Just over three quarters of respondents think that linear TV (as part of …

… and iMacs and MacBooks

by Bob Raikes

Apple has updated the processors on the iMac and MacBook and added Thunderbolt 3, and added a Retina 4K display to the 21.5″ iMac. Displays are boosted in brightness to 500 cd/m² The iMac …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Hampden Park Bringing Two Giant LED Video Displays To Game Day

by Bob Raikes

Hampden Park, Scotland’s National Stadium of Glasgow, United Kingdom, and the Scottish FA have partnered with Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota, for the company to design, manufacture and install two new LED video displays …

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SID 2017 Remains a Highlight

by Bob Raikes

SID Display Week is a highlight of the year for me. Apart from the great technology and peek into the future, the event has one of the friendliest press rooms and it’s a great …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

In an Overstuffed Innovation Zone, the Gems Still Gleamed

by Bob Raikes

The Innovation Zone (I-Zone) at SID Display Week 2017 in Los Angeles had approximately 50 exhibitors, more than double the average of years past. Was 2017 an unusually innovative year? Perhaps, but not on …

DSCC Reports Display Equipment Market Up Over 90% in Q1’17

by Bob Raikes

Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has begun tracking and forecasting the overall display equipment market as part of its recently launched Quarterly Display Capex and Equipment Service. Figure 1: Quarterly Display Equipment Revenues and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Production Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 22

ELO Updates its Touch Controller

by Bob Raikes

ELO started our booth tour by showing us its latest solutions (pun intended) for PCap touch on displays that are not only wet, but are also exposed to salt water. As well as obvious …

Tags:ELO| Large Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Touch Controllers| Vol 24 - Issue 21