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Barco: A New Medical Colour Standard is Needed

Barco has conducted research showing that a new colour calibration standard is required for medical displays. The company will share its ...

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Canon Explains HDR Pipeline (DS3)

Laurence (Larry) Thorpe of Canon gave a very “high bandwidth” talk and we hope we caught the main points! He addressed ...

THX and CGS Announce Strategic Technology and Distribution Partnership

THX Ltd., renowned for the certification of world-class cinemas and consumer electronics, announces it has entered into a strategic partnership with ...

Thalmic Raises $120 Million for Gesture Input

Thalmic Labs has secured $120 million in Series B funding from Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund and others to develop ...

GelTouch To Get to Market in 2018

We reported on GelTouch Technologies from Berlin in a Display Daily (GelTouch Enabled Touchscreens May Eventually Provide “Buttons-on-Demand”) a couple of ...

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Regulator Shares Samsung Specs

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s Galaxy A8 smartphone, which has been the subject of rumours for several months, has appeared at China’s TENAA regulatory commission. The phone will be shipped with a 5.7″ AMOLED display (1920 x 1080). …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 26

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 26

by Tom Allen

Smart Technologies‘ 84″ Smart Kapp 84 capture board (Smart Takes a Lesson From Boogie Board) is now available in Europe. It is being distributed by TD Maverick, Tech Data and Ingram Micro. (for more …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LCD TVs| Pricing| Smart Technologies Inc| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Philadelphia Regulates Signage

by Tom Allen

The city of Philadelphia has introduced new signage regulations, limiting the amount of advertising in the city. For every new digital billboard erected, two static billboards must be removed.

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Merck Makes €30 Million OLED Investment

by Tom Allen

Merck has begun construction on a new OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt, Germany. The 2,000m² facility, which will be the target of a €30 million investment, will start production of materials for displays …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| OLED Materials| Vol 22 - Issue 26

AR and VR Sales to Rise 10 Times by 2018

by Milos Pavlovic

CCS Insight has predicted that 2.5 million VR and AR devices will be sold this year – increasing to 24 million in 2018. CCS Insight praised the work of company’s such as Google, which …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Wiko’s Dramatically Cuts Resolution

by Tom Allen

Wiko’s Rainbow smartphones are offered in white, black, green red or blue.French manufacturer Wiko has followed its Rainbow smartphone with a ‘concentrated version’ called the Rainbow Lite. It is an entry-level model (the tag …

Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Nokia Plans Smartphone Return

by Tom Allen

Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia, has said that he wants to resurrect the brand’s name on smartphones. Speaking to Germany’s Manager Magazin, Sureev said that Microsoft will lose control of the brand name in …

Tags:Licensing| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Business Tablet Use Continues Quick Climb

by Tom Allen

Business tablet adoption is accelerating in the UK, France and Germany, says IDC. Penetration is expected to exceed 15% of the total client base by 2018 – compared to just 6% in the second …

Tags:business| Europe| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 26

First Fall for MEA Tablets

by Tom Allen

After several years of successive gains, the MEA tablet market recorded its first-ever YoY decline in Q1’15, says IDC. Shipments fell 5.8%, to just over 3.8 million units. IDC said that the lower performance …

Tags:IDC| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Italy Likely to Miss 2020 Deadline

by Tom Allen

Italy’s communications regulator, Agcom, has said that the country is unlikely to meet the 2020 deadline for turning the 700MHz spectrum over to the telecoms sector. Agcom’s Vincenzo Lobianco said that a switch to …

Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Apple Has Been Testing UltraHD For Years

by Tom Allen

Leaked emails from Sony show that Apple has been licensing the company’s UltraHD content for testing purposes since 2013. Although not earth-shattering, it does show that Apple is interested in the format – which …

Tags:4k| Apple| Large Display Monitor| Licensing| sony| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Microlite Brings LCD Approach to Projection Screens (DS6)

by Bob Raikes

Martin Chien is from Microlite Screen which has a new technology for projection screens for wide viewing angles. It is a new company, but Chien has more than ten years experience in screens. Projection …

Tags:Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Projection Screens| Vol 22 - Issue 26