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KOE Moves to High Res for Industry

by Tom Allen

KOE Europe has introduced a new 10.1″ LCD display module, with high resolution, for industrial use. While many industrial display modules have resolutions of 1024 x 768 or lower, KOE’s new TX26D202VM0BAA has 1920 …

Tags:Industrial Monitors| LCD Modules| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

QMC Achieves Cadmium-Free Production

by Tom Allen

Quantum Materials Corporation (QMC) of San Marcos, Texas, is now shipping evaluation and production quantities of its red and green cadmium-free quantum dots (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 7).

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Samsung Display Apparently New Apple Supplier

by Tom Allen

As we have reported in the past (Apple Looks to LG for AMOLED), it is very likely that LG Display is supplying the flexible AMOLED screen to be used on the Apple Watch. New …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Valve Streams Games Cheaply, Provides Console Release Date

by Tom Allen

Valve has finally provided a date for the release of its Steam Machine consoles. Units will begin to be released from November this year. At the same time the company showed off the Steam …

Tags:Broadcast| Consoles| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Steam Consoles| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Gear VR Consumer Version Coming This Year, Says Oculus

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s Gear VR (Samsung Brings B2B to Consumer Show) will be launched this year alongside the Galaxy Note 5 – or so implied John Carmack, CTO of Oculus VR. Carmack told Game Developers’ Conference …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| phablets| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Semiconductors Rise to New January High

by Tom Allen

Worldwide semiconductor sales in January were the highest they have ever been at the beginning of a year, according to the USA’s Semiconductor Industry Association. Total sales reached $28.5 billion – an 8.7% YoY …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Semiconductors| Vol 22 - Issue 10| Worldwide

DVB-T2 with HEVC Trialled in Czech Republic (Again)

by Tom Allen

Czech broadcast network operator Ceske Radiokomunikace has begun a second test of DVB-T2 with HEVC, following a trial last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 28). This test is expected to last until February …

Tags:Czech Republic| DVB-T & T2| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 11

by Tom Allen

The DS551LT7, a 7,000 cd/m² 55″ LCD display from Dynascan (ISE 2015 Roundup), will be released in the USA in Q1 this year. Imax released a home theatre system back in 2013 (Display Monitor …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| DLP Projectors| High Brightness Displays| Home Cinema| Home Theatre| IMAX| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Media Players| OLED TVs| PCs| Pricing| Samsung| sony| UK (United Kingdom)| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Philips Breaks Records With iF Design Wins

by Tom Allen

The iF Design Awards in Germany honour products with outstanding design, and Philips broke records by taking home 52 of them this year. Products were recognised in all five categories: Product, Communication, Packaging, Interior …

Tags:Back Panel| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Video Walls Approach Value of $18 Billion

by Tom Allen

The worldwide market for video walls will grow at a 23.44% CAGR between 2014 and 2020, ending the period at a value of almost $18 billion according to a report (http://tinyurl.com/o2cb4p8) published by Markets …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 10| Worldwide

Fortune Names Canon as Admired Company

by Tom Allen

Fortune magazine has named Canon as one of the world’s most admired companies. Fortune calls this list the ‘definitive report card of corporate reputations’. Canon ranked highly in innovation, social responsibility and long-term investment …

Tags:Back Panel| Canon| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10