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IHS Identifies LED Shipment/Revenue Disparity

by Tom Allen

Area shipments of direct-view LED video displays rose 15.6% YoY in 2015, but overall revenue was up just 1.2%, says IHS, due to a ‘dramatic’ price decline across all pixel-pitch categories. Unit shipments in …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 19

BitTorrent Takes Torrent Tech to IP Streaming

by Tom Allen

BitTorrent is famous as a file sharing site, but has announced a change to its business model – although relying on the same peer-to-peer technology that it uses for torrenting. Going forward, the company …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Samsung Extends Smartwatch UI

by Tom Allen

Samsung has filed a patent for a smartwatch, which would project the UI onto the user’s hand, wrist or forearm. Another, separate patent shows the UI projected onto ‘any’ surface. Sensors would be used …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Projectors| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Acer Awarded With Red Dots

by Tom Allen

Seven Acer products have won Red Dot design awards this year. The winners were chosen from more than 5,000 entries from 57 countries. They were the Aspire S 13 ultrabook; Aspire R 15 hybrid …

Tags:Acer| Awards| Back Panel| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 19

“Thin is in” at SID Awards

by Tom Allen

The Society for Information Display has named the winners of the 21st annual Display Industry Awards, which will be presented during SID Display Week this month. SID president Amal Ghosh noted that “‘thin’ is …

Tags:Apple| Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Awards| Back Panel| Corning| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Society| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Maverick Extends Smart Agreement

by Tom Allen

Maverick has extended its contract with Smart Technologies, and will now distribute the Smart Kapp products across the UK, Italy, Spain and Portugal – in addition to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, the …

Tags:Distribution| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Smart Technologies Inc| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Automotive Displays are Fragmented, Says IHS

by Tom Allen

Based on global revenue forecasts, IHS reports that Continental, Visteon and Panasonic will top the list of tier one automotive display suppliers this year. The market is worth almost $10 billion for tier one …

Tags:Automotive| IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Tianma Reaches 847 ppi on Mobile Displays

by Tom Allen

Tianma NLT USA will show off several new displays from Tianma Micro-electronics at SID 2016 (24th – 26th May, San Francisco). Two of these have very high pixel pitches of 847 ppi. The two …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| NLT| SID Display Week 2016| Tianma| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Dell Wants to Consolidate Monitors

by Tom Allen

Dell’s huge new display, which has a diagonal of 43″, is aptly known as the ‘Multi-Client Monitor’ (aka P4317Q), due to its ability to show up to four separate sources at the same time. …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Aldi Sets Date for Signage Rollout

by Tom Allen

Aldi Sud, the German retail chain, has announced plans to modernise its stores with a large DOOH rollout. By 2019, the chain’s 1,860 locations will be digitised with indoor and outdoor signage. Aldi has …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Retailers| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Ströer Debuts First Programmatic Advertising

by Tom Allen

Ströer and media group VivaKi have launched Germany’s first programmatic DOOH campaign. It will run on around 100 digital screens in Hamburg until the end of June. VivaKi’s AODSync tool was tied to Ströer’s …

Tags:Advertising| Digital Signage| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Connectivity is Toshiba’s Business Focus

by Tom Allen

Toshiba has expanded its range of business notebooks with three models, favouring a long battery life, fast processors and multiple connectivity options. The Satellite Pro A50-C-1G8, A50-C-1G9 and A50-C-1GL are all 15.6″ notebooks with …

Tags:business| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| toshiba| Vol 23 - Issue 19