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ROE Has Lots to Show

by Bob Raikes

ROE of China had a focus on the advantages of black LEDs. The company was the first to talk to us about this topic at last year’s event and this year it had set …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2017| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Panasonic Emphasises System Solutions

by Bob Raikes

We saw the Dynamic Projection Institute’s controllable mirror system on the Panasonic booth at last year’s event. The company has been developing the technology which allows the re-direction of projection output, for example onto …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Panasonic| Projectors| ProLight & Sound 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Is Smart TV better in the TV or in the Cloud?

by Bob Raikes

The other day, I was reading an article that was complaining about the relative lack of development in Smart TV technology recently. It got me thinking about how Smart TV is developing but also …

Tags:Cloud TV| Smart TV| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Transtech Highlights Black LED Performance

by Bob Raikes

Transtech was showing its black LED cabinets which are 1000 x 500mm and produce 4000 cd/m² rather than the 5,500 cd/m² of the standard LEDs. The cabinets at the show used a 5.9mm pitch …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2017| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Ledcon Develops Curved LED

by Bob Raikes

LEDCon Systems GmbH of Germany was showing new LED modules that it has developed that can be used to create free form and curved LED displays. The company created the design itself and has …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2017| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 14

ProLight & Sound 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Absen was showing the M series of LEDs that we saw at ISE which was being shown with processing from Brompton Technology of the UK. The company told us that the M series has …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| Projection Screens| ProLight & Sound 2017| Rental and Staging| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 14

ProLight & Sound is Important for Rental & Staging

by Bob Raikes

The Prolight & Sound took place at the Frankfurt Messe from 4th to the 6th of April, running alongside the Musik Messe, which started a day later. The event is an important event for …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| ProLight & Sound 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 14

More Details of Toppan RFID Tags

by Bob Raikes

We reported last week on new ESLs that are being made by Toppan, using E Ink displays from Pervasive (Pervasive Combines E Ink with RFID for Battery-less Tags). We followed up with Toppan as …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 14

LG Display – 50% of Revenue to Come From OLED

by Bob Raikes

At the Finetech conference in Tokyo, Japan, LG Display’s CTO, Kang In-Byeong said that the company only saw 10% of its revenue coming from OLED in 2016, but that it expects more than 50% …

Tags:CSOT| InkJet Deposition| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Cynora Promises Blue TADF in 2017

by Bob Raikes

OLED Info has conducted an interview with Dr. Andreas Haldi, the CMO of Cynora, the German start up that is working on TADF materials. The key development highlighted was that the firm expects to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| TADF| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Xbox ‘Scorpio’ Supports VRR & HDR

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has announced the specifications for its next XBox version which will support UltraHD game play with high frame rates. While the XBox One has 12 compute cores in the GPU and around 12 …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 14| xBox

CDS Stretched Screens Now Support UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Crystal Display Systems (CDS) of the UK said that it is now supplying stretched displays with UltraHD horizontal resolution. There is a 34.8″ with 3048 x 536, a 35.8″ with 3840 x 1076 and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Stretched Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 14