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RSCrypto Now Supports Mstar chips

RSCrypto of Chengdu, China, a maker of Conditional Access Security (CAS) said that it is now supporting SMI’s key derivation architecture ...

Rumour Claims UHD for Next Surface

Rumours are circulating about the supposed Microsoft Surface Pro 5 tablet, suggesting an optional UltraHD display. The tablet will be launched ...

European PD Market is Flat in Q3

The Q3 market for public displays in Europe was basically flat from Q2, in line with typical seasonality but slightly better ...

Education and Calmer Egypt Drives MEA PC Growth

PCs in MEA enjoyed 2.1% volume growth YoY to reach 4.26 million units in Q3’14. According to IDC, the result was ...

UltraHD Alliance Cagey on Specs, but Bullish on UHD Blu-ray

The UHD Alliance was at IBC to explain what it is up to. First, we heard that the UHD Forum had ...

Amino liberates operators from legacy TV with launch of Virtual Set-top Box Software

Amino, the IP/Cloud video software and device specialist, announced today that its new Amino ENABLE virtual set-top box software is empowering ...

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For Wearables, Power is The Elephant in the Room (WF16)

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on the role of and limitations for wearables imposed by power consumption and battery size, type and capacity. The …

Tags:Batteries| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Flexible Batteries| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation (WF8)

by Phillip Wright

Ernesto Martinez, Head of Wearable Computing at Kopin, delivered a talk entitled Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation during the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference at SID Display Week. The speaker noted that Kopin, the venerable microdisplay …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Large Display Monitor| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

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An Autostereoscopic Display that Presents Smooth Motion Parallax

by Arthur Berman

One of the challenges in many autostereoscopic display technologies is that of producing a smooth variation in the 3D imagery as the viewer moves in user space. That is, of producing smooth motion parallax …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

LG Display Shows 18″ Flex Display

by Bob Raikes

We had a tour of the LG Display booth that started with a look at the latest 55″, 65″ and 77″ UltraHD OLED TV panels. There is no question that the visual performance of …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Transparent Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Google Jump Captures the World in 360 Degree 3D

by Arthur Berman

One of the challenges faced by participants in the Virtual Reality industry is to make creating and watching VR simpler for consumers. To that end, Google has launched a new open source VR platform …

Tags:Google| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 25

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Next Gen Microdisplay Discussed at SID – AM LEDs

by Steve Sechrist

One of the more profound papers on core microdisplay (MD) technology advancement at SID Display Week came from a Columbia University start-up company, Lumiode. In Session 26.2 the team led by Dr. Brian Tull …

Tags:Microdisplays| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

BOE Has Impressively Wide Range

by Bob Raikes

BOE came to the SID last year for the first time. This time, the company was back with an impressive display from the low end to the high end. As the company explained in …

Tags:AMOLED| Amorphous TFT| BOE| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 24

A Smartwatch Developer’s View on Wearables (WF7)

by Phillip Wright

The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week featured a presentation by Andrew Witte, Founder and CTO, Pebble Technology. The Pebble smartwatch (pictured below) initially funded through crowd funding …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 25

by Tom Allen

Can’t forget the Tim Cook-alikes!Apple has a history of comedic openings for its WWDC keynotes, and this year’s was no different. Bill Hader stars as ‘director David LeGary’, who is orchestrating the most elaborate …

Tags:Apple| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Apple Builds Bigger, Better Ecosystem at WWDC 2015

by Tom Allen

Apple’s WWDC has been and gone again, but this year’s event was unlike those in the recent past – because there were no new product announcements. Instead, like Google at Google I/O in May, …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Events| iOS (Apple)| iPad| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24

ISO Selects X-Rite for New Colour Standard

by Tom Allen

The ISO TC130 committee, which sets global standards for the graphic arts, has adopted the X-Rite Colour Exchange Format v3 (CxF3). CxF3 has been taken on as a new standard for colour data exchange …

Tags:Colour Certification| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Standards| Vol 22 - Issue 24