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15 NLT Can Support Touch with Gloves on Wet Screens

NLT (the NEC/Tianma venture) told us that it is seeing a lot of interest in widescreen formats, now. It has had ...

FoVI3D Installs Metrology System for Field of Light Displays

FoVI3D has installed a light-field display metrology system at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The equipment is intended for the test, validation, ...

Technicolor Paves the Way for Next-Gen TV with HDR and SDR Compatibility Solution

Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH; OTCQX: TCLRY) committed to enabling HDR across all aspects of content creation and distribution, has announced the ...

Himax Hosts President Tsai Ing-Wen with AR/VR

During a visit by Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-Wen, Himax, a fabless supplier of display drivers, showed the latest technology that Himax ...

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 42

The Blackberry Priv smartphone (Blackberry Looks to Android to Save Falling Share) can now be pre-ordered in the UK, for £465 ...

Jenoptik Builds Theatre for Laser Projection Lens Testing

Jenoptik Optical Systems has announced the completion of the new Jenoptik Dome Theater. Located in Jupiter, Florida, the theatre’s screen is ...

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Technicolor Acquires Cisco’s CPE Business

by Tom Allen

Technicolor and Cisco Systems have signed an exclusive agreement, which will see Technicolor acquire Cisco’s customer premises equipment (CPE) business – also known as the connected devices division. Technicolor will pay €550 million in …

Tags:Cisco| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Technicolor to acquire Cisco STB Business

by Bob Raikes

Technicolor to acquire Cisco connected devices division (STB business) for €550m in stock and cash Combination creates global leader in CPE; Strategic partnership around next generation video, broadband and IoT PARIS, France — Technicolor …

Liquid Lens used to Address Problems in a Holographic Display System

by Arthur Berman

A recent publication introduces and discusses the innovative use of an electronically focusable liquid lens as the means to address chromatic aberration problems experienced in prior art, time-sequential holographic display systems. The team undertaking …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Holography| Optics| Vol 22 - Issue 31

EEMEA OTT TV & Video Market to Add $2.2 billion

by Helen Vince

OTT TV and video revenues in EEMEA [19 countries] will reach $2,635 million in 2020; up from only $52 million recorded in 2010 and the $616 million expected in 2015, according to Digital TV …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| OTT Video

Worldwide Smartphone Market Posts 11.6% YoY Growth in Q2 2015

by Helen Vince

According to the latest preliminary release from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 337.2 million smartphones worldwide in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15), up …

Tags:Apple| Huawei| IDC| Lenovo| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi

“The Only Disruptive Technology at Display Week”

by Ken Werner

At SID Display Week, in an aisle on the show floor, I had a brief conversation with Candice Brown-Elliott, Nouvoyance CEO and creator of the Pentile Matrix pixel configuration widely used in Samsung OLED …

Tags:MicroLED| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Samsung Top in Smartphones, but Down From 2014

by Bob Raikes

IDC released its preliminary data on the smartphone market in Q2 by highlighting that it’s the growth in emerging markets that is driving the market. In total, 337.2 million smartphones were shipped, up 11.6% …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 30

IHS Forecasts OLED Materials

by Bob Raikes

IHS has a new report available on OLED materials. At the moment, the market is dominated by Samsung Display’s purchases, but will be overtaken by LG Display from 2016. Chinese makers are also expected …

Tags:AMOLED| IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| Materials Market| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Prysm Expands Channel Partner Programme

by Helen Vince

Prysm has appointed more partners to its Global Channel partner Program. AVI-SPL, Impianti, Pentatel, Polymedia, Smart AV and Yorktel will be selling and supporting Prysm’s range of Olympic and Cascade video wall and display …

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 30

CDS video wall

CDS Adds Videowalls and Large Format Displays

by Helen Vince

CDS of the UK has now added video walls and large format displays to its portfolio of products for hire or rental by installers or VARs. CDS’s new range of professional large format LED …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| VARs (Value Added Resellers)| Video Walls| Vol 22 - Issue 30

Arch Develops LED Map for Train Museum

by Bob Raikes

Arch of Belgium has developed a custom 70m² discrete custom LED display for the new Brussels Train Museum (Schaerbeek) which is due to open in September. The display is 6cm thick and shows a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Museums & Exhibitions| Vol 22 - Issue 30