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SID Display Week Will Be a Highlight Again in 2016

by Bob Raikes

SID’s 2016 Display Week is looking especially interesting this year. As last year, the event has stayed on the West coast of the US, in San Francisco, where so many key display customers are …

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The Future for Large OLED

by Bob Raikes

We had a short week after a public holiday on Monday. We were working on the report from the IdTechEx event in Berlin, but didn’t get it finished because of the restricted time. We’ll …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Osram| Quantum Dots| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 17

IHS Analysts Look at VR & Media Trends

by Bob Raikes

IHS held an analyst’s briefing meeting at the end of the recent TV Connect event in London and we went along to see what the company had to say. It was a short event, …

Tags:China| Europe| IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Pay TV| Smartphone Market| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 17

NAB Videos

by Bob Raikes

We created four videos in our coverage of the NAB 2016 show. You can see them on our Vimeo website https://vimeo.com/album/3925521

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Panel ASPs Hit the Bottom

by Bob Raikes

This week we have the NAB report as a separate issue to add to our newsletter, with lots of news on HDR and some interesting explanation of the importance of the ATSC 3.0 developments. …

Tags:AUO| Display Supply & Demand| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 16

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AUO Result 28/04/16

by Bob Raikes

AUO said that its revenues were down 14.7% from last quarter at NT$71.14 billion ($2.2 billion) with a gross margin of just 0.5%. The operating loss was NT$5.1 billion ($158 million) and net loss …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Fraunhofer Uses FEP to Boost OLED Resolution

by Bob Raikes

Fraunhofer’s FEP (Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology) is to present two papers at the forthcoming SID event on a new way of creating OLEDs with very high pixel density using …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Barco Appoints CEO Designate

by Bob Raikes

Barco has appointed Jan De Witte, a former corporate officer of the General Electric Company, as CEO-designate. The current CEO, Eric Van Zele, plans to retire later this year. De Witte will join Barco’s …

Tags:Barco| Large Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 23 - Issue 16

UDC Works on Hybrid OLED Approach

by Bob Raikes

Up to now, OLED makers have been making OLEDs using technologies that are effectively limited by the barrier in fine metal mask patterning that Kodak (and its Sanyo Kodak subsidiary) hit several years ago. …

Tags:OLEDs| Sub-pixel Rendering| UDC| Vol 23 - Issue 18

Cambrios Clarifies Changes

by Bob Raikes

We reported on the Cambrios liquidation and ‘re-birth’ as Cambrios Advanced Materials Corp last week and, as planned, we managed to catch up with past and current President & CEO Jon LeMoncheck to get …

Tags:Cambrios| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Great Video & IP Battles

by Bob Raikes

We have plenty of news for you this week. We’ve included the items from last week’s Cinemacon and we are publishing our NAB stories as we go along on the website. We’ll have the …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanoco| Nanosys| Vol 23 - Issue 15

The End of More Glass and Vacuum Technologies

by Bob Raikes

I made reference in my talk at the Nuremberg conference to Paul Gray’s “end of glass, vacuum and metal” (GVM) technology and over the last couple of weeks, I have seen lots of stories …

Tags:CRT| Editorial| Lamps| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Laser Projectors| Light Sources & Lamps| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 14