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by Bob Raikes

NDS is a long term supplier of software for airports and flight information displays (FIDs) and told us at the show that its PADS4 software now supports NEC displays fitted with the Raspberry Pi …

Tags:Advertising| Aviation| Digital Signage Software| Large Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2017| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Conrac Stretches Out at PTE

by Bob Raikes

Conrac is the brand that Data Modul (an Arrow company) uses for its public displays and the company is a significant player in the airport display market. At PTE, it showed new ‘stretched’ displays …

Tags:Aviation| Data Modul| Large Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2017| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 11

BagTag is Getting There…

by Bob Raikes

We met with BagTag at the show last year (BagTag Wants to Add Tags to Bags…..). The company makes E Ink-based bag tags that can be attached to bags and updated using NFC or …

Tags:Aviation| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11

PTE is Lively at the RAI

by Bob Raikes

The Passenger Terminal Expo is something of a marginal event for us. Although there are some display-related stories, usually there is not much so whether we attend depends on how we can fit it …

Tags:Aviation| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Passenger Terminal Expo (PTE) 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Panel Pricing for Monitors and Notebooks Has Peaked

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell told us that monitor panels have good inventory at the moment, but inventory is still growing to avoid possible out of stock situations. Although monitor panel prices have been stable, prices are more …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Vol 24 - Issue 11

The Bubble Bursts for VR in China

by Bob Raikes

An article in the Chinese press has pointed out that some Chinese VR stocks have fallen heavily as the ‘VR bubble has burst’. The article points out that shares in Shenzen Esun Display have …

Tags:AR/VR| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Lots More Companies from China

by Bob Raikes

I find myself in an aircraft again, with no internet access, so I can’t do much about all the articles I need to get edited and written, so I thought I’d write my editorial. …

Tags:China| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Next Microsoft Surface Book to be Clamshell?

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has cut the price of its Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 in some countries as it seems to be clearing its inventory before the arrival of the next Surface Book version. There …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 11

AOC AGON monitor with 4K IPS display and NVIDIA G-SYNC

by Bob Raikes

AOC has announced its first UltraHD monitor in its Agon line which is aimed at gamers. The AGON AG271UG 27″ monitor uses an IPS panel with 300 cd/m² and features Nvidia’s G-Sync to eliminate …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Bernstein Warns on OLED Investment

by Bob Raikes

Analysts from Bernstein have been on a trip to Asia, visiting Samsung, Corning, LG Display Japan Display, Toppan, ULVAC, Tokyo Electron, Applied Materials, Kateeva, Idemitsu Kosan, Hitachi Chemical, and Nanosys among the 23 companies …

Tags:Apple| China| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 11

In LCD, are the Chinese Coming?

by Bob Raikes

For while now, it has been clear that ‘the Chinese are coming’ to the LCD business. Recently, we hit one of those ‘inflection points’ that analysts like me are so keen on. Our friends …

Tags:BOE| China| CSOT| Foxconn (Honhai)| LCD Fabs| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Exertis Wants to be A/V Number 1 in the UK

by Bob Raikes

Extertis Managing Director, Paul Bryan, has given an interview to CRN in which he sets out an aim to move away from being seen as a ‘broadline’ distributor and. among other things, becoming the …

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 10