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Super Bowl LI to be Captured in UHD & 8K

by Bob Raikes

The Super Bowl in the US on 5th Ferbruary will be show with a mixture of UltraHD and 8K cameras. Fox Sports will use 38 UltraHD cameras to create a 360 degree view of …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 24 - Issue 03

CES Highlights OLEDs, UHD and Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Phew…. We’ve just got to the end phase of our CES report production. Of course, as we clear back our systems, we’ll find other stories that got missed in the deluge, but we’ll catch …

Tags:CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

DFF To Discuss Automotive at BMW

by Bob Raikes

The Deutsches Flachdisplay-Forum (DFF) will hold a meeting at BMW in Munich on the 23rd of February. Check www.displayforum.de for details.

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Visteon Impresses with HUDs, OLEDs and …. S3D

by Bob Raikes

Visteon is one of the biggest suppliers of instrumentation and consoles for vehicles that was spun off from Ford in 2000 and we first met them at CES in We had a tour around …

Tags:Automotive| Autostereo 3D| CES 2017| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

AVTop Updates HDR Tool

by Bob Raikes

AVTop in Germany has released a new version of its tool called HDRmaster that is designed to the analysis of RAW signal levels of HDR video source files and to edit metadata. AVTop quoted …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Think&Go Brings Transactions to Public Displays

by Bob Raikes

In the Innovation zone in the Sands, we found an interesting company, Think&Go, from Aix en Provence in France that has developed NFC technology that can be fitted into large format displays (LFDs). The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| NFC| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Apple Sues Qualcomm Over Licensing & Contracts

by Bob Raikes

Apple has filed a suit against Qualcomm that claims that the firm’s policy of charging royalties based on the value of the item being sold is unfair. Apple believes that this penalises its own …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 03

German Consumers Still Like TVs

by Bob Raikes

ZVEI commissioned a survey of 2,000 German consumers and found that the TV is still the preferred way to watch TV but there are changes in viewing practice. The study can be downloaded (although …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart TV| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Sony

Sony Looking at OLED for 2018 Phones

by Bob Raikes

Sony is reported by Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun to be looking at switching to OLED displays for its high end smartphones in 2018 or 2019. Analyst Comment Frankly, given that the two brand leaders will …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro Has 5.7″ OLED

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has launched a new phone that will start to sell in China and has a 5.7″ FullHD Super AMOLED display. The phone uses an Octacore Snapdragon 625 with 4GB of RAM, and 64GB …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Toshiba To Sell OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

Nikkei reports that Toshiba in Japan plans to launch a 55″ OLED TV in March, with Panasonic due to ship its new models in April. Pricing for the sets has been reducing in Japan, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| toshiba| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Bentley Thinking of Transparent OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Bentley is a very traditional brand in terms of the materials used in its cars – including wood and leather – but the brand also values technology. At the Automotive News World Congress in …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Transparent Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 03