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2015 – Started with CES and an LED Story

by Bob Raikes

I had thought about writing a review of 2015 and the display stories that we had covered (and I still might), but the more I thought about developments in the year, the more one …

Tags:China| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Hannstar & CPT Illustrate the Effects of “Fungibility”

by Bob Raikes

This week we feature two stories that highlight how far down CPT and Hannstar are on a year on year basis. That reflects a range of problems at the moment for the panel industry. …

Tags:CPT| Editorial| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

Samsung and LG Will Pass on UHD in 2016

by Bob Raikes

Only Sony has produced an UltraHD smartphone, to dateKorea’s iNews24 claims that both Samsung and LG will forgo producing UltraHD smartphones in 2016. Instead, they will favour 2560 x 1440 displays, at most. The …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Flickr to Support Gear VR

by Bob Raikes

Flickr has said that it will support the Samsung Gear VR by producing an app for the Gear VR that makes it easy to see a range of curated 360º content. The content can …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 50

49 and Counting…

by Bob Raikes

This is the first of our “bonus” issues in 2015, #49. Since we started back in 1994, we have always said that we produce “a minimum of 48 issues per year” which was to …

Tags:CES 2016| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 49

Is There a New Number for Projector Performance?

by Bob Raikes

Buyers of professional and technical products like to buy on what they hope will be a rational basis. Of course, there is always room for branding, marketing and the sales and marketing processes, but …

Tags:Colour Quality| Colour Wheel| DLP Projectors| Epson| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| Measurement| Vol 22 - Issue 49

Samsung, Cameras and Brands

by Bob Raikes

This week, we report on the withdrawal from the UK digital camera market by Samsung, which follows on from a story we spotted recently that the firm had dropped out of selling cameras in …

Tags:Cameras| Editorial| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 48

LG Display Takes A Step to G9.X

by Bob Raikes

It’s Black Friday, again and I’m sitting down to write my editorial on a Friday, as I usually do. However, I’m not going to cover the event this year, as just as we were …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Some Recovery in EMEA DTM Market in Q3

by Bob Raikes

The EMEA Desktop Monitor market saw a better than normal seasonal boost from Q2, with 15% quarter on quarter growth, but the market was still down nearly 10% on Q3 last year according to …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Could P3 Be the Next Stage for WCG?

by Bob Raikes

I seem to have spent a lot of the last few weeks talking about, looking at and thinking about display colour. Although we have published a huge amount about high dynamic range (HDR), with …

Tags:Apple| Colour Management & Processing| DCI P3| Rec 2020| Rec 709| Vol 22 - Issue 47| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Where Does SkyQ Leave HFR?

by Bob Raikes

This week’s issue got me thinking about developments in TV. I was particularly interested in the Sky announcement and I confess that is partly because I am a customer of Sky. Sky is incredibly …

Tags:Editorial| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SAT>IP| Sky| Vol 22 - Issue 46

BrightSign Players Used in Turkish Project

by Bob Raikes

BrightSign players have been used in a large-scale network rollout of almost 400 screens in Turkey. Linova Digital Medya Teknolojileri built the network for Shell garage forecourts. BrightSign’s Network Enterprise Edition player was chosen …

Tags:Brightsign| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 47