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Google Shows Off Android M

by Tom Allen

Android M, the next version of the popular OS, has been announced at Google I/O. Google has focused on improving the quality of the platform. However, new features have also been added, which include …

Tags:Android| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 23

CSOT Begins Operation at Second G8.5 Line

by Tom Allen

Sources in Asia say that CSOT began manufacturing at its second G8.5 factory, in southern China, in April. In early May, the company began to mass-produce 55″ (1920 x 1080) LCD TV panels, with …

Tags:China| CSOT| Large Display Monitor| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 23

NHK Achieves 98% of Rec.2020

by Tom Allen

Japan’s NHK showed a 50″ LCD display with a laser backlight and ‘very wide’ colour gamut at its Open House event last month, says the Nikkei. According to NHK’s Science & Technology Research Laboratories …

Tags:Japan| Large Display Monitor| NHK| Rec 2020| Rec 709| Vol 22 - Issue 23| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 27

by Tom Allen

“There’s nothing on!” – it’s a common complaint. But how many times did you stop and think about your poor pooch, sitting there as you veg out on re-runs of Gossip Girl for the …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Portugal| Vol 22 - Issue 27

AMD Takes Responsibility for 1535 Broadway

by Tom Allen

AMD has revealed that the massive digital sign unveiled in Times Square last year (New Times Square LED Sign Could Be Largest in the World) is driven by its own Firepro professional graphics cards. …

Tags:AMD| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 23

Volfoni Forgets Cardinal Rule of Advertising

by Tom Allen

Volfoni is really gunning for RealD, having officially welcomed a patent invalidation in China. China’s Patent Re-Examination Board declared that RealD’s UM patent CN 203433207U did not bring enough novelty and innovation to the …

LG Tests OLED – with a Hammer

by Tom Allen

LG Chemical has demonstrated the ruggedness of its flexible OLED displays by putting them under the hammer – and we don’t mean at an auction. Watch the video at http://tinyurl.com/qcnuwzh.

Everdisplay Unveils 8″ AMOLED

by Tom Allen

Everdisplay showed prototypes of an 8″ AMOLED panel for the automotive market at CES Asia last month. Credit: OLED-Info Little information is currently available. However, Everdisplay did say that the panel has 1920 x …

Tags:AMOLED| Automotive| Everdisplay| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 23

Signage Approaches $24 Billion

by Tom Allen

A new report on Marketsandmarkets (http://tinyurl.com/nby4szt), the digital signage market will be worth more than $23.7 billion by 2020. This represents an 8.18% CAGR over the next five years. The rise in market value …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 22 - Issue 23

Google is Committed to Cardboard. Really.

by Tom Allen

Google Cardboard (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26) was presumed to be a simple marketing stunt. Google, however, appears to be taking the device seriously – enough that the company has released a second …

Tags:Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 23| Wearables

Windows 10 Will ‘Stabilise’ PC Market

by Tom Allen

2015 will be the fourth consecutive year of declining PC shipments, says IDC, with a 6.2% fall forecast. The market continues to struggle, with competition from tablets and smartphones and generally low demand. While …

Cellular Devices Buck Falling Tablet Trend

by Tom Allen

That cellular connectivity will be a growth driver for tablets and hybrid devices in the future, is the main take-away from both IDC and Gartner’s new data set releases. IDC believes that worldwide tablet …