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Samsung Turns to Profits Over Growth

A source speaking to the Korea Times has said that Samsung is planning to change its mobile strategy. The shift comes ...

SID Display Week Positive On Location & Attendance

The SID held a successful Display Week in San Jose. We spoke to Head of Marketing, Sri Peruvemba, who told us ...

Mira Unveils $99 Mobile Augmented Reality Glasses

Los Angeles mobile augmented reality company, Mir, a has revealed Prism, its new lightweight AR glasses. Made mostly from plastic, Prism ...

Sony Continues Dual Laser/Lamp Approach

Sony unveiled two new laser projectors and their lamp-based counterparts – continuing the company’s strategy of producing two versions of all ...

Visual Tumult Disappears @ Infocomm 2015

After last year’s Infocomm expo, I wrote: “Many 4K and 3D displays throughout the two main exhibit halls were simply upsetting ...

CEE to be Difficult for Netflix

Laima Zivatkauskaite said that Netflix has only 2% share in LithuaniaDigital TV Europe has reported speakers at the Digital TV CEE ...

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Medion Goes Premium – We Think

by Tom Allen

Lenovo subsidiary Medion was not showing all of its new products on the stand – the brand had, somewhat oddly, decided to give the space to existing products, instead. However, there was enough information …

Tags:Convertible PCs| IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Philips’ High-Concept Ambilight Becomes Reality

by Tom Allen

Philips’ press conference, since last year, is divided between three product areas: health, wellbeing and appliances; audio (since the relaunch of the Gibson brand at IFA 2014); and displays. Only the final area is …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| Philips| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Huawei Beats Apple to Force Touch

by Tom Allen

Taking a leaf from Apple’s book, Huawei revealed its self-titled Huawei Watch at IFA – with an Apple-like price tag. Starting at €335 for the leather version, the most expensive steel model (plated with …

Tags:Huawei| IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Lenovo Moves Projector in Yoga Tab 3 Pro

by Milos Pavlovic

We met up with Lenovo at the show, but there weren’t any new display products on the booth, we were told. We were surprised, then, when we got back to the office to find …

Tags:IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

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US Pay TV Firms Post Worst Ever Subscriber Losses

by Helen Vince

A new report from IHS shows that US pay TV companies suffered their worst ever quarterly video subscriber losses in Q2, losing 658,450 subscribers. According to IHS, this is the first time non-cable pay …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 35

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Researchers Developing a “Skin-Like” Flexible Display

by Arthur Berman

A target for some time has been a fabric that can be made to change color and pattern at will. Recent developments reported by researchers at the University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) seems …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Plasmonic Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 35

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Switchable Pixel Elements Under Development for Holographic Displays

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers at the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics within the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom) is developing means to improve the performance of Liquid Crystal on Silicon …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 35

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UNC Develops AR-Based Encryption

by Norbert Hildebrand

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill presented a new method of cryptography based on augmented reality. The system is based on visual cryptography and uses two independent displays that combine into …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 35

3M to Propose Changes to New BT2020 Color Standard at SMPTE Fall Event

by Chris Chinnock

The new UHD TV specification calls for an expanded color gamut called BT2020. But no current TVs can meet the specification because the red, green and blue primaries are specified without a tolerance. And, …

Tags:3M (MMM)| AUO| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Hisense| Rec 2020| Vol 22 - Issue 35