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VDS04 Lighting in Display Systems

by Ken Werner

The second morning opened with a session on lighting in display systems. Chin Chang (Semtech) discussed his company’s Boost converter, which, when combined with current sources, serves as a high-performance LED driver for vehicular …

Tags:Automotive| Film materials| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID - Vehicle Displays 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 38

VDS03 Panel Discussion Covers AR, HUDs and Risk

by Ken Werner

Bob O’Brien of DSCC chaired the panel sessionThe symposium’s first day, as well as its coverage of HUDs, concluded with a panel discussion, “Augmented Reality in Head-Up Displays for Automotive Displays, moderated by Bob …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID - Vehicle Displays 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 38

VDS02 Head Up Displays Remain a Challenge

by Ken Werner

In the session on head-up displays, Olli Pekonen (Beneq Oy, Espoo, Finland) presented thin-film electroluminescent displays (TFELs) as being well-suited for vehicular applications. The operating temperature is -100ºC to +100C, there is virutally no …

Tags:Automotive| DLP| EL (Electroluminescent)| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Press Events| SID - Vehicle Displays 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 38

HUDs Are Easy; Augmented Reality HUDs Are Not

by Ken Werner

The 2017 Vehicle Displays and Interfaces Symposium, held in Livonia, Michigan, on September 26 and 27, continued the growth, stimulating content, and enthusiasm demonstrated last year. Attendance this year was 550, compared to 400 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Vol 24 - Issue 36

Moto Z2 Force: A Smartphone Without Gorilla Glass

by Ken Werner

Note: I am delighted to yield most of my space today to the distinguised technology journalist Barbara Krasnoff. I will return briefly after Barbara has had her say. — Ken Werner “Corning’s Gorilla Glass …

Tags:Glass| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34

Oh, No! More on OLEDs

by Ken Werner

I do apologize but I can’t stay away from this subject. Whatever else we can say about OLED-TVs — and there’s a lot — getting closer to the cost and price of LCD-TVs is …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Vol 24 - Issue 32

For Flexible Displays, We don’t need your stinkin’ OLEDs!

by Ken Werner

At the last SID Display Week, Merck and FlexEnable were enthusiastically promoting their cooperation in developing flexible LCDs, and in late July FlexEnable and Chinese LCD maker Truly announced the signing of a technology …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Merck| Vol 24 - Issue 30

A New QLED Artifact in Paju

by Ken Werner

Last week I, along with three other media/analyst types, was LG Display’s guest in Seoul and Paju for a tour of facilities and interviews with executives. There is a lot to share from that …

Tags:Edge Backlights| LCD Backlights| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 27

Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, and a Snapshot from 30,000 Feet

by Ken Werner

I am writing this on the day after July Fourth, a holiday on which we in the U.S.A. celebrate our liberation from tyrants, eat hot dogs and hamburgers, and drink beer that Display Daily’s …

Tags:LCD TVs| OLED TVs| Vol 24 - Issue 25

3M to Retire QDEF

by Ken Werner

3M had a lot to show and talk about in its booth at SID Display Week last month. But 3M’s industry-changing quantum-dot enhancement film (QDEF) was noticeably absent both from the booth and from …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 23