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Another Inflection Point for Samsung

by Bob Raikes

There was no question about the Samsung story going on the front page. I regularly talk about ‘inflection points’. Cinema is at one this week. At Infocomm in 2015, one of the LED suppliers …

Samsung Surprises with LED at Cinemacon

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has taken the large display industry by surprise by announcing at Cinemacon, a plan to enter the cinema market using small pitch LED displays instead of projection. Samsung’s HDR LED cinema screen. Image: …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED Cinema| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Samsung Proposing Dual Width Panels

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has been showing around some new LCD panels including a 49″ ‘double’ panel that has a 32:9 aspect ratio. We heard that the radius is 1800mm and resolution would be 3840 x 1080. …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Shanhai Capital Completes Acquisition of Analogix Semiconductor

by Bob Raikes

Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Beijing Shanhai Capital Management Co, Ltd. (Shanhai Capital), today jointly announced the completion of the approximately $500 million acquisition of Analogix Semiconductor. China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd. …

Tags:Analogix| Mergers & Acquisitions

Shanhai Capital Finalises Analogix Purchase

by Bob Raikes

Beijing Shanhai Capital Management Co, Ltd. (Shanhai Capital), said that it has finalised the purchase of Analogix Semiconductor for around $500 million. China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd. (China IC Fund) joined …

Tags:Analogix| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Call for Papers for Training and Simulation Display Summit

by Bob Raikes

Insight Media has made a call for papers for the 2017 Training & Simulation Display Summit which will be held on Sept. 27-28, 2017 at the Rockwell Collins Simulation and Training Solutions facility in …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Large Display Monitor| Simulation| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Samsung Sued by Huawei

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has been ordered to pay 80 million Yuan ($11.6m) to Huawei for breaching Huawei patents by a court in Quanzhou, China. The companies are reported to be in a number of court battles …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Epson Home Cinema 1450 3LCD Projector is Bright

by Bob Raikes

Epson US announced the Home Cinema 1450 projector, a 3LCD unit with 4,200 lumens of 1920 x 1200 output. The projector has contrast of ‘up to’ 15,000:1 and uses a 300W UHE lamp. There …

Tags:Epson| Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Is the Display Business too Big for Any Single Company?

by Bob Raikes

The other day, Norbert pointed out in an article in our subscription newsletter that Apple appears to be trying to develop a display technology, microLED, basically on its own. That’s a very hard thing …

Tags:LCD displays| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 13

ZTE has 360º Camera and Casting Breakthrough

by Bob Raikes

ZTE was showing a new 360º VR capture camera that features live streaming of video. It combines four images to create a stream that can be relayed over both fixed and mobile internet connections. …

iWedia Has a Busy Show

by Bob Raikes

iWedia had a lot of announcements at TV Connect. Teatro-3.5 is a complete software solution for STBs operated under Android. It is based on iWedia’s Android4TV framework which extends Android with broadcast and multicast …

Kyocera Industrial LCD has Wide Aspect

by Bob Raikes

Kyocera has a new 6.2″ LCD with a 640 x 240 (16:6 aspect) and brightness of 500 cd/m², but has a PWM dimming control to allow a dimmng range of 0.1% to 100% for …

Tags:Kyocera| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13