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Japan Display Warns of Surprise Loss

Japan Display (JDI) has issued a revised forecast for this year and said it now expects to record a net loss ...

Deluxe and Technicolor Launch Joint Venture In Digital Cinema

Deluxe and Technicolor announced today that they have entered into a binding agreement to create a new digital cinema joint venture, ...

Microsoft Works With Miracast

Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34), a Chromecast-like dongle called the HD-10, for Windows Phone devices, was leaked ...

Verizon Passes 5.5 Million Video Subs

114,000 new FiOS video customers joined Verizon in Q3’14, boosting the company’s total video subscribers to 5.5 million: a 7% YoY ...

Spanish Pay-TV Market Grows

Spain had more than five million pay-TV subscribers at the end of 2014, up 31.6% from the 3.8 million posted in ...

Acer Launches Gaming Monitor Enabled by AMD FreeSync™ Technology

Acer’s XG270HU gaming monitor enabled by AMD FreeSync™ technology is shipping this month starting from North America and EMEA. The 27-inch ...

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Rumour: Apple Scraps Multi-Vendor Strategy

by Tom Allen

MK News, of Korea, claims that LG Display could become the exclusive display supplier of the second-generation Apple Watch. Sources told MK News that Apple will (or has) discarded its multi-vendor supplier strategy for …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 25

LG Pushes OLED TV Yields to 65%

by Tom Allen

LG Display has raised yield rates for its large OLED TV panels to 65%, and plans to pass 80% this year. LGD will soon demonstrate a pilot inkjet printing line at its M2 line …

Tags:AMOLED| Broadcast Monitors| InkJet Deposition| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Production| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Guangzhou NV Achieves 0.01mm AMOLED Thickness

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeGuangzhou New Vision, of China, has unveiled a 0.01mm-thick prototype flexible AMOLED panel. The unit uses a polyimide substrate, oxide-TFT backplane and RGB front plane. Curvature radius is 4.5mm. A video of …

Tags:AMOLED| China| Curved Displays| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Boron Doping Unlocks Blue OLEDs

by Tom Allen

A team at the Goethe University in Germany have developed a new class of organic luminescent materials, via the targeted introduction of boron atoms into the molecular structures of graphene. The new compound features …

Tags:Blue Light| Graphene| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Vol 22 - Issue 25

SDC to Triple Flexible OLED Production in 2015

by Tom Allen

The OLED Association says that Samsung has been investing in existing fabs, aiming to triple flexible OLED production by the end of the year. A new tool from Tera Semicon will be installed. Capacity …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Greek TV Channel Chooses Eyevis

by Tom Allen

Greek TV channel OTE TV has had 36 Eyevis screens installed in its studio, for sports broadcasts. The 55″ EYE-LCD-5500-XSN-LD was installed by Bon Studios, in five different configurations: a 3 x 6 video …

Tags:DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Thin Client Shipments Suffer After Strong 2014

by Tom Allen

Thin and terminal client shipments fell 7.8% YoY in Q1’15, with a poor comparison to the first half of 2014, says IDC. Shipments last year were boosted by a massive refresh of legacy PCs. …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Thin Clients| Vol 22 - Issue 25| Worldwide

Blackberry Makes Eyes at Android

by Tom Allen

Balsillie, unafraid of scorn, admitted that he still uses his Blackberry PlaybookFour sources ‘familiar with the matter’ have told Reuters that Blackberry is considering installing Android on an upcoming smartphone. The device would have …

Tags:Android| BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 22 - Issue 25

HTC Not Interested in Asustek Approach

by Helen Vince

HTC has responded to reports that its larger rival, Asustek Computer, was interested in taking over the company. Asustek’s chairman, Johnny Shih, had been quoted as saying, ahead of the company’s AGM, that the …

Tags:Asus| HTC| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

MEA PCs Fall on Regional Instability

by Tom Allen

The PC market in the MEA region is suffering from currency fluctuations and unstable global oil prices, says IDC. Shipments fell 9.6% YoY in Q1, to 4.3 million units. Desktops were down 10%, to …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Serbia Finishes ASO

by Tom Allen

Analogue switch-off has been completed in Serbia, 10 days ahead of schedule.

Tags:ASO (Analogue Switch Off)| Large Display Monitor| Serbia| Vol 22 - Issue 25

EU Sees Benefit of Co-ordinated Approach to Spectrum

by Tom Allen

The European Commission has published the results of a public consultation on the Lamy Report (EBU Continues to Hold 700MHz Concerns). The results suggest that a co-ordinated EU approach; a common roadmap; and a …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 22 - Issue 25