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Samsung Result 1/2/2016

Samsung Electronics reported Q4 operating profit of KRW 6.1 trillion ($5.05 billion). Turnover for the quarter was KRW 53.3 trillion ($44 ...

TCL Corporation to Restructure its Businesses

TCL Corporation says it is to  restructure its operations into 11 entities, deemed the “7 plus 3 plus 1 structure”, with seven ...

Can Rubber Replace YAG in LEDs?

German and Spanish scientists have used luminescent proteins to create a pure white organic LED, at a lower cost than today’s ...

The Future for Large OLED

We had a short week after a public holiday on Monday. We were working on the report from the IdTechEx event ...

Amazon Sticks It To Chromecast

Amazon already has its own set-top box (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 14), but is now challenging the growing streaming stick ...

Samsung To Show ‘QLED’ at CES

A report from the Maeil Business News suggests that Samsung will show a “new type of self-emitting UHD LCD TV powered ...

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ASRock Chooses Display Solutions

by Tom Allen

Display Solutions is now distributing ASRock’s NUC Box 3000: a fanless, dual-core embedded PC, intended as a DOOH media player. The box can support three displays, including one UltraHD unit.

Tags:Distribution| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 36

MMD Has Philips’ First 5k Monitor

by Tom Allen

Just a few days after IFA, MMD showed off a new monitor that is the first Philips-branded 5k model. The 27″ 275P4VYKEB houses a screen with 5120 x 2880 resolution, using a PLS panel …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 22 - Issue 36

EDO Claims Chinese First With Flexible AMOLED

by Tom Allen

Everdisplay Optronics (EDO) has shown a 5.6″ flexible AMOLED display, with 2560 x 1440 resolution (525 ppi), in China. The company says that it is ‘committed to leading-edge display technology’.

Tags:AMOLED| China| Everdisplay| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Happy Birthday to the Playstation Nation!

by Tom Allen

Sony is celebrating 20 years since the US launch of its original Playstation console – on 9th September, 1994 – by inviting fans to vote on the greatest game for the system of all …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Infinitus Tests Outdoor Screens in Scandinavia

by Tom Allen

Infinitus has shared images of new DOOH screens that it has developed and is testing with an unnamed customer in Scandinavia. They are outdoor screens in a portrait orientation: one 47″, in the G6 …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Nordics| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Asus Lowers Notebook Forecast on Fluctuating Exchange Rates

by Tom Allen

Asus has lowered its notebook shipment target for Q3, says the Taipei Times. The company is apparently aiming to ‘lower sales exposure’ in some emerging markets to prevent losses due to currency exchange rates. …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Rumour: SDC to Unveil ‘New UltraHD Technology’

by Tom Allen

According to Korea’s Digital Daily, Samsung Display has developed a new UltraHD panel technology, based on an RGBW sub-pixel architecture. Known as ‘Green 2’, the technology will enter mass-production in 2016. It will be …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| RGBW| Samsung| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 36

STMicro Addresses Entry-Level HEVC

by Tom Allen

STMicroelectronics has a new family of chipsets for entry-level set-top boxes (STBs) with HEVC support. The HD HEVC Liege3 family comprises satellite (STiH337/STiH332), cable (STiH3372) and IPTV variants (STiH307/STiH3302). All chipsets in the new …

Tags:Chips| HEVC (H.265)| IBC 2015| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| STMicroelectronics| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Spectral Edge Makes TV Content Accessible for Colour-Blind Viewers

by Milos Pavlovic

Spectral Edge today announced that it is enabling operators and set top box manufacturers to transform the TV viewing experience for the estimated 4% of the world’s population that suffers from colour-blindness. Spectral Edge …

Tags:IBC 2015| STBs| STMicroelectronics

Reprising Low-Contrast Text Web Pages

by Phillip Wright

A while back I wrote in Display Daily about an article by Katie Sherwin of the Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) titled Low-Contrast Text is Not the Answer. As I mentioned at the time, the …

Tags:display quality| Human Visual System (HVS)| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Samsung Display Pushes Curves – and Large OLEDs.

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display had a meeting room conveniently close to the press office. We had a look at the panels on display, but there was little that was particularly new. There was an 82″ 21:9 …

Tags:Curved Displays| IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD Modules| Mirror Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Apple’s iPad Pro is a Light Heavyweight

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Apple special event on September 9, 2015 was the usual iPhone update show accompanied by some other Apple news about the iPad, Apple Watch and the Apple TV. As expected Apple announced the …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| iPad| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart TV| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 36