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Could HDR10+ Be a Better Tone Mapper than Dolby Vision?

by Ken Werner

In the beginning, which was 2015, more-or-less ordinary consumers began their encounter with high-dynamic-range (HDR) media through the theatrical release of Dolby Vision movies. “Tomorrowland” was the first. Such media must be recorded or …

Tags:CES 2020| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Samsung

The Art of the Deal

by Ken Werner

On December 1, 2017 the Village of Mount Pleasant in Racine County, Wisconsin issued the execution version of its development agreement for the “Foxconn Project,” under which Foxconn was to build a $10 billlion …

Tags:Investment| LCD Fabs| USA

Your Display’s Night Mode Could Keep You Awake

by Ken Werner

At first look you might not think an article in the December 16th issue of Current Biology entitled “Cones Support Alignment to an Inconsistent World by Suppressing Mouse Circadian Responses to the Blue Colors …

Tags:Blue Light| Health and Safety

Autonomous Vehicles Recede Into the Future

by Ken Werner

In his enthusiastically received tutorial at the 2019 Vehicle Displays and Interfaces Symposium, held September 24 to 25 at the Burton Manor Conference Center in Livonia, Michigan, Bryan Reimer of the MIT AgeLab (Cambridge, …

Tags:Automotive

EyeLights US Press Tour Promotes Poor Man’s HUD — and It’s Good

by Ken Werner

The French start-up EyeLights’ first product was a monocular HUD that mounts on the inside of a motorcycle helmet and shows the rider simple instrumentation and navigation screens. The product, EyeLights Moto, delivered a …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs

Korean OLED Manufacturers Have Their Ups and Downs

by Ken Werner

LG Display (LGD) has released an earnings reports that is disheartening, at least it is if you work for LGD and not for Samsung Display or BOE. But LGD is also experiencing serious teething …

Osram Shrinks Its Chips

by Ken Werner

Germany-based Osram Opto Semiconductors is a leading manufacturer of LEDs, as well as other opto-electronic devices. In a recently released interview with Yole Développement display analysts Eric Virey and Zine Bouhamri, Matthias Winter, Senior …

Tags:LED| MicroLED| Osram| Quantum Dots

Samsung Gets Closer to Blue OLED Plus Quantum Dots for Color

by Ken Werner

On September 24 The Korea Herald dreported that Samsung Display Corp. will invest US $11 billion to convert its L8 LCD production line in Tangjeong to production of quantum-dot OLED (QD-OLED) television displays. Samsung …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung

For Vehicle Displays, OLED’s Lustre Fades

by Ken Werner

At the exhibits of the 2019 Vehicle Displays and Interfaces Symposium, held September 24 to 25 at the Burton Manor Conference Center in Livonia, Michigan, I saw only one automotive OLED display on the …

Cambrios, Risen from the Ashes, Now Spreads its Wings

by Ken Werner

Mike Spaid, President and CEO of what is now Cambrios Advanced Materials, joined its predecessor company (Cambrios Technologies Corp.) in 2005, shortly after that company was founded. That was also the year Cambrios first …

Tags:Cambrios| Investment| Silver Nanowire| Touch Market

BOE Forms JV to Exploit ESLs and Associated Systems

by Ken Werner

In May, BOE, SES-Imagotag, and JD Digits announced the formation of a joint venture “to provide smart solutions to support the digitalization of physical retail” that is, electronic shelf labels (ESLs) and supporting technologies. …

Tags:BOE| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Retail

Fones with Folding Displays Will Fall Flat

by Ken Werner

You are reading Display Daily so it’s a good bet you like intriguing display technology. And it’s hard to get more intriguing than displays that fold. The technical challenges are interesting and solving them …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Samsung| Smartphones