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The (Almost) End of the Blu ray Era

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, Panasonic has announced shipping of its a new UHD Blu ray disc player shown in January at CES. The box supports high dynamic range (HDR 10) format and will …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| Market Data| Packaged Media| Streaming Video| Vol 25 - Issue 27

Will VR Go the Way of 3DTV?

by Steve Sechrist

When will consumers come around to face-worn display technology? According to past forecasts, that should have already happened, yet it seems that just because a display technology can be “perfected” a great display alone …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Market Data| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 25

ZTE is on Again, But For How Long?

by Steve Sechrist

It’s Alive… It’s alive Dr. Frankenstein exclaimed of his brainchild monster’s awakening, and so too with jolts of reviving energy from renewed access to US chip technology, ZTE is back in the mobile smart …

Tags:Manufacturing| Mobile Phones| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 23

KN01b Visionox Hails OLED Golden Era at SID Keynote

by Steve Sechrist

In his thought leadership keynote, (OK, they are supposed to be thought leadership talks) Visionox CEO Dr. Deqiang Zhang took us down the path of the OLED golden era that will introduce display ubiquity …

Display Week iZone Highlights

by Steve Sechrist

This was a record breaking year for the iZone at the annual Society for Information Display Display Week. Launched just seven years ago, the innovation Zone or iZone has grown to almost 50 booths …

E Ink Shows Large Format E Tile Panels – More at SID

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, low-power panel maker E Ink Holdings highlighted it’s large format (2′ x 4′) single- segment solar powered wireless display technology at Display Week in Los Angeles last week. The …

Google’s Gen 3 AI Goes Mainstream – Almost

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, your G-Mail, Photo’s and other apps are about to change in some very interesting ways, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what empowered AI programming can …

Can OLED’s Save TV Pricing?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, a chart on pricing changes illustrated just how far south TV prices in the US have plummeted over the long-term. The must-have electronic entertainment commodity, still centerpiece of the …

Tags:Market Data| OLEDs| TV Set Market| Vol 25 - Issue 17

Flexible Displays are Here So Why Can’t They Fold?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, the latest numbers from display market research firm, Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) is reporting that 2019 is the year that foldable (not just flexible) OLED displays will begin …

Back to Candlelight – the Shift Away from Blue Spectrum Light

by Steve Sechrist

This is one of those ‘coffee will kill you’ stories that points to the large body of research showing the ill effects of short blue wavelength light on human health, and in particular cells …

Qualcomm and the Advent of 5G Cell Networks

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, 5G is at the root of the recent headlines of the US Treasury Dept. scuttling a “$121B hostile Chinese takeover bid” (to the Singapore-based Broadcom) of mobile chip maker, …

3D Printing Moves AMLCD’s Beyond Displays

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, a new 3D printing system, just recently commercialized, is using TFT LCD technology as a photo mask with an array of UV LEDs as a planar light source, to …

Tags:3D Printers| LCD| Vol 25 - Issue 09