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Vehicular Displays and SID Display Week

by Ken Werner

As I write this, OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and university researchers are reimagining the automobile. Those reimaginings include a wide variety of displays, including displays that do not yet exist. Already an important market …

Tags:Automotive| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 12

A Visit to Samsung’s QA Lab

by Ken Werner

Two weeks ago, I reported on the talk Gerard Catapano gave at the SID LA Chapter’s annual One-Day Conference (Two Keys to Optimal HDR TVs: Dynamic HDR Metadata and Tone Mapping). After his presentation, …

Tags:Colour (Color)| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Two Keys to Optimal HDR TVs: Dynamic HDR Metadata and Tone Mapping

by Ken Werner

The Society for Information Display LA Chapter held its 14th annual One-Day Conference on February 3, 2017 at the Costa Mesa Country Club in Costa Mesa, California. At the conference, Gerard Catapano gave a …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| SID Society| Vol 24 - Issue 06

CES Candy Store for Display Nerds

by Ken Werner

Each year at CES, LG Display’s by-invitation-only suite, which was in one of the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall meeting areas this year, is a candy store of new display technologies and products. …

Tags:Automotive| LG Displays (LGD)| Photo Alignment| Vol 24 - Issue 04

The Connected Car at CES 2017

by Ken Werner

Although autonomous vehicles are grabbing most of the attention in the general press, the industry is just as obsessed with the connected car. Connectivity is required for the safest and most efficient full-automation systems, …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03

The Return of the Aftermarket

by Ken Werner

In the final presentation at the Consumer Telematics Conferance, held at the out-of-the-way Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on January 4 (the day before the CES exhibits opened), Roger Lanctot of Strategy …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03

CES 2017 Automotive Round-Up

by Ken Werner

At CES, the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center is the center of things automotive, with driving demos being held in the so-called Central Plaza near the Monorail station. Many of the …

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

Breakfast with Continental

by Ken Werner

Continental Automotive GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) is one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive components, electronic subsystems, and tires. During the company’s Press Day press conference, its spokesman made several interesting points. The company, …

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

LG: “We don’t need no stinking quantum dots.”

by Ken Werner

Let me be clear. Nobody from LG said this to me at CES or anywhere else, but LG is notable for not using quantum dots in its higher-level TV sets. However, with wide color …

Tags:LCD displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Electric Vehicles, Displays, and Electronics at CES 2017

by Ken Werner

When Display Monitor and Display Daily first started covering vehicular electronics at CES in depth, we focused on vehicular displays. That was reasonable for a news, analysis, and research organization that specializes in displays, …

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

Samsung Gives a Good TV a Bad Name — Again

by Ken Werner

At CES last week Samsung introduced its new “QLED” TV technology, but it’s not what the technical community would call QLED. We’d better get used to it, though. When Samsung’s marketing army decides to …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 01