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Visbit Claims 12K 360º video using Wi-fi or LTE

by Bob Raikes

Visbit, a start up specialising in streaming 360º video, has said that it has shown that it can stream 12K 360º video using Wi-fi or LTE radios. There is a demo in the video …

Tags:360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Fossil Will Have Diesel and Slim Watches

by Bob Raikes

Fossil has shown a new line of its Diesel ‘On’ smartwatches which have full screen AMOLED displays rather than being hybrids, like its earlier products. The devices are compatible with iOS and Android and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 12

AUO Highlights Curved LCD

by Bob Raikes

Ivan Wu is from AUO and he talked about curved LCD. He compared LCD to OLED in cost, performance, reliability, curved an multi-function. LCD increasingly can challenge OLED in performance. He identified that there …

Tags:AUO| Curved Displays| Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| Flexible Displays| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Can OLED Damage the LCD Monster?

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was our own Bob Raikes. His topic was the development of the OLED business and its impact on LCD. He started with a broad overview. The development of flat panels was …

Tags:Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 11

JDI Looks at Mobile Display Trends

by Bob Raikes

The third speaker was Holger Gerkens, President of JDI in Europe. He had three topics, Market trends core technologies and future vision. He showed a chart indicating the ‘display market size’, but the chart …

Tags:Electronic Displays & Embedded World 2017| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Small & Medium Displays| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Marshall 7″ On-Camera Monitor V-LCD70W-SH Has SDI

by Bob Raikes

Marshall has announced the V-LCD70W-SH camera-based field monitor with a 7″ 1920 x 1200 LCD with 450 cd/m² of brightness and 1,000:1 contrast. Inputs include HD-SDI and HDMI and there’s an integrated cross converter. …

Tags:Field Monitors| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

ProsBill To Sell Phones From Meizu

by Bob Raikes

French etailer and distributor Prosbill has started the distribution of Meizu smartphones through its reseller network.

Tags:Distribution| France| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 11

iTunes Rental Gets Simpler

by Bob Raikes

Apple has released a new version (12.6) of iTunes that allows access to movies that have been rented on iTunes on other devices (“Rent once, watch anywhere”), although implementation will need new versions of …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 11

LG Electronics

LG Updates B6 OLED TVs for Game Play

by Bob Raikes

LG has now released the firmware that supports an HDR game mode on the LG B6 OLED in Europe (LG Plans Firmware Patch for OLED Latency). The firmware is reported to reduce input lag …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 24 - Issue 11

China’s BOE to have world’s largest TFT-LCD+AMOLED capacity in 2019

by Bob Raikes

In a blog post, David Hsieh of IHS Markit has forecast that BOE, which was recently revealed as the panel maker with the highest volume of large LCDs in Q4 for the first time …

Tags:BOE| China| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Deloitte Survey Shows Binge Watching is Big, Social Media Critical

by Bob Raikes

American consumers’ status as a binge watching, streaming, multitasking nation enters 2017 with strong momentum according to Deloitte’s 11thDigital Democracy Survey. With 84% of Americans on social networks – social media has evolved well …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Warranty Week Reports on 2016

by Bob Raikes

Warranty Week has been giving its summary of 2016. The report covers US companies and all industries, but you can find it here if you want the full story. We noted that Cree was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12| warranty