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OLED and Dual Cell TV: The Battle Commences

by Ken Werner

In my last Display Daily I argued that the future of OLED as the TV panel technology widely accepted as the very best is severely limited. The reason: OLED is not bright enough to …

Tags:Dual Panel LCDs| Lighting| OLED Materials| OLED TVs

Squeezing the Sponge: Premium TV Sets of the Near Future

by Ken Werner

My wife, Arlette, used to say my brain was like a sponge that’s been floating in dishwater. You’re not sure what it’s absorbing but sometimes you squeeze it and something interesting comes out. Recently …

Tags:Dual Panel LCDs| OLED TVs| Quantum Dots| TVs (TV Sets)

8K TV: More Than Just Pixels

by Ken Werner

The 8K Display Summit held June 11 at the Millenium Times Square Hotel had 14 speakers and a presentation of content that was deep, broad, and frequently insightful. In yesterday’s DD, my colleague Matt …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Quantum Dots| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Visual Quality| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

To Fold or Not to Fold

by Ken Werner

Following Samsung’s disastrous media introduction of the Galaxy Fold in early April, the company delayed the device’s late-April commercial introduction. Subsequently, AT&T cancelled its announced June 13 release date of the Fold, and on …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Lenovo| LG Displays (LGD)| Notebooks| Samsung| Smartphones

Nanosys Shows Hisense Dual-Cell QD TV at Display Week; Coming to Market in 2020

by Ken Werner

Dual-cell LCD TV Panels were on display in the Display Week booths of several panel makers, including BOE and CSOT. In the dual-cell architecture, a monochrome LCD panel is placed behind the normal color …

Tags:BOE| Dual Panel LCDs| Hisense| Innolux| LCD Backlights| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2019

OLED is Everybody’s Favorite Display, but…

by Ken Werner

It is still true that, for the most part, experienced display evaluators prefer OLED-TVs to quantum-dot-enhanced or RG-phosphor-enhanced LCD-TVs. The evaluators tend to value the color saturation, very dark black levels, good motion rendering, …

Tags:OLED TVs| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2019| warranty

Springtime Droplets

by Ken Werner

A late Spring is finally stumbling its way into Southwestern Connecticut. The new green tree leaves gleam in the late afternoon sun, and the plantings are beginning to bloom. I transferred the first tomato …

Tags:China| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Displays| Foxconn (Honhai)| sony| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Taiwan

Latin Display 2019 Combines with Infocomm Brazil

by Ken Werner

Avixa partnered with Technomultimedia to produce Infocomm Brasil from April 2 to 4, 2019, at the TransAmerica Expo Center in São Paulo, Brazil. The Society for Information Display’s (SID’s) Latin American Chapter ran its …

Tags:Latin America (Latam)| LED

Is the JVC DLA-NX9 the World’s Best Home Cinema Projector?

by Ken Werner

On March 23 Value Electronics (VE) hosted the world’s first demonstration of JVC’s newest home cinema projector, the DLA-NX9. VE, a high-end A/V retailer and custom installer in the wealthy New York City suburb …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| JVC| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Panasonic| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD

Sharp Created the Mass LCD-TV Market; What Now?

by Ken Werner

Sharp created the mass LCD-TV market, mostly by selling LCD-TVs years before LCD technology was ready to support the application. The early Sharp LCD-TVs were truly terrible, in part because the LCDs of the …

Tags:Digital Signage| Foxconn (Honhai)| sharp| TVs (TV Sets)

Quantum Dot Architectures: The Horizon Comes Closer

by Ken Werner

Nanosys, the manufacturer or licensor of essentially all of the quantum dots in commercial usetoday, has long had a roadmap of quantum dot display architectures, each of which require particular developments in quantum dot …

Tags:Glass| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| Samsung