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LG to Peak in Smartphone OLED Supply in 2020

The OLED Association published some interesting forecasts for OLED shares in the rapidly developing smartphone market. The Association forecasts that, over ...

Samsung Sees Tough Pricing and Weak Smartphones

Samsung saw a drop in profits on a quarterly basis, and sees some tough times ahead with DRAM and LCD panels ...

IBC 2015 Round Up

German STB maker, ABox42, was showing a new middleware solution that it has developed that is called ABox42 OPA (Operator Android). ...

TV Demand Softens Taiwan Panel Decline

Taiwan’s MIC says that the country’s large-area LCD panel shipments were up 0.7% QoQ in Q3. Rising LCD TV demand towards ...

Hypebox Used in MediaMarkt

MMT of Berlin, Germany, has supplied a number of transparent 32″ Hypebox display boxes to Media Markt in the Netherlands to ...

ASE Posts Record Q2 Sales

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) recorded its second-highest quarterly revenue in the company’s history in Q2, 8.6% higher than Q1 and 19.8% ...

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Meynen Leaves Ingram

by Tom Allen

Ingram Micro’s country director for Belgium, Steve Meynen, has left the company to work for Awingu, a local workspace aggregator. http://tinyurl.com/p4bggv2

Tags:Belgium| Ingram Micro| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Second-Gen Chromecast Seen in Leak

by Tom Allen

9 to 5 Mac has posted an article about a second-generation Google Chromecast streaming dongle. The site claims to have seen internal documents showing a new, circular design and with improved WiFi connectivity. A …

Tags:Google| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| Vol 22 - Issue 38

BBC Brings Video Streaming to USA

by Tom Allen

The BBC has announced plans to launch an OTT video streaming service in the USA. Tony Hall, the broadcaster’s director general, said that thee new service will be launched online next year, with no …

Tags:BBC| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Video| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Amazon Encourages Tablet Bulk-Buying

by Tom Allen

Although it got the size wrong, the Wall Street Journal was correct in the pricing of Amazon’s newest tablet ($50 Tablet Incoming From Amazon). The 7″ Amazon Fire is a very low-cost model – …

Tags:Amazon| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 38

TPK’s Touch Technology Investigated by ‘Major’ Vendors

by Tom Allen

Sources at TPK have said that ‘major’ smartphone vendors, including Apple, have been showing an interest in the company’s ‘touch-on-lens’ technology. New production breakthroughs have apparently raised yields and, thus, lowered the cost of …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Touch Interfaces| TPK| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Germany Prepares for T2 Launch

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Media Broadcast and Eurofins are working together to develop a receiver specification and test suite, in preparation for the launch of the DVB-T2 platform. A soft launch is expected in June 2016. In …

Tags:DVB-T & T2| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Sony’s UltraHD Phone Isn’t Always UltraHD

by Tom Allen

When Sony introduced the Xperia Z5 Premium smartphone (Sony Enhances Mobile Display – Will it be Enough?), we wondered how the company would achieve the ‘up to two-day’ battery life claim with an UltraHD …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 38

UltraHD for $100 With Amazon

by Tom Allen

Amazon has been active in the TV STB/dongle space for more than a year now, and is stepping up its game to challenge the new Apple TV. The company’s newest Fire TV STB not …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Streaming Dongles| UltraHD (4KTV)| Voice Input| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Introducing an Automultiscopic Display

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (Playa Vista, CA) have developed a system that captures videos in a unique way and then presents full sized images of people on …

Tags:3D Cameras| 3D Content Creation| Panasonic| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Kopin Announces Smartglasses for the Cycling Athlette

by Norbert Hildebrand

Kopin has announced a new smartglass device under the Solo brand name. The device is aimed at the sports market and is designed especially for bicyclists. Solo is designed by Kopin to compete with …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Kopin| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Dolby Explains HDR

by Bob Raikes

Dolby gave a talk as one of the SES seminars at the event. Arnd Paulsen of Dolby started by talking about human vision and its capabilities. The aim is to deliver content that matches …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37

Dolby vision keynote

Hollywood Excited by HDR & WCG and “The sparkle in actors’ eyes”

by Bob Raikes

Unfortunately the joys of torrential rain and Monday morning Amsterdam traffic meant that we missed the very beginning of the Pixar/ILM keynote. The discussion when we sneaked in was about the use of different …

Tags:6p Laser| Cinema Projection| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)