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LG & Samsung Accused of Gaming Energy Tests

by Bob Raikes

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in the US, a non-profit environmental lobby group that claims more than two million members, has published a report that claims that Samsung, LG and Vizio are exploiting …

Samsung Offering Cash Back on MFMs & SUHD

by Bob Raikes

In Germany, Samsung is offering cashback deals on some MFMs, SUHD TVs and also on bundles with Soundbars under the hashtag #doppeldeal. Check the details at www.samsung-superdeals.de.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Witsview Reports Chinese Panel Makers Strong in August

by Bob Raikes

Witsview reported that 68.84 million large LCDs shipped globally in August, a month on month increase of 9.3%. The number was made up of 23.6 million TVs, 12.4 million monitors, 15.1 million notebooks and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Could VR Headsets Hit 70 Million?

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research in Taiwan believes that promotions by smartphone vendors of VR headsets with smartphones will mean a big boost to shipments in Q4 2016, boosting annual shipments to 70 million for the year …

Tags:3D| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 38

EverDisplay to set up 6G AMOLED Fab

by Bob Raikes

The Economic Daily News, a Chinese language newspaper, has reported that EverDisplay Optronics of Shanghai will invest CNY27.278 billion ($4 billion) to set up a G6 (1.5m x 1.8m) OLED factory with a monthly …

LG Criticised for RGBW Again

by Bob Raikes

LG is continuing to get bad coverage for its RGBW UltraHD TV panels. A recent 4K blog site published an article titled “These three LG TVS offer RGBW pseudo 4K and a raw deal …

Zytronics Enables Wroclaw Museum

by Bob Raikes

Zytronic said that its PCap technology has been used by touch screen specialists Videofonika and has been installed in the recently opened Pan Tadeusz museum in Wroclaw, Poland, has been designed with numerous multimedia …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Envelop for Windows Now in Beta

by Bob Raikes

Envelop for Windows is new software that is intended to bring Windows apps to VR headsets and allow software including office productivity applications to be used in a VR environment with HTC Vive and …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Interesting Views on Comcast/Netflix

by Bob Raikes

Our team found this interesting article that sees the Netflix/Comcast deal as a win for everyone. Netflix Is Just The Beginning

Tags:Netflix| OTT Video

EOL for Windows

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 OEM edition will become “end of line” (EOL) at the end of October and will no longer be available to system builders to install on new PCs. The company would like …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38| Windows

Google Cardboard Camera now on iOS

by Bob Raikes

Google has made the Cardboard Camera, intended to help with making 360º videos and which was previously only on Android, available to iOS users.

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 3D| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Lexus UX Concept Has New Display

by Bob Raikes

At the Paris motor show, Lexus showed a concept car that had a novel interface. The driver’s instrument binnacle houses a transparent globe, floating like a hologram, Lexus said, in which a combination of …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38