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Cable TV Falls in Double Digits

According to Nielsen data, cable TV viewing in the USA was down 12.7% in January, as OTT services continue to gain ...

Xbox (Finally) Overtakes Playstation

After many months at the top, Sony’s Playstation 4 has been dislodged from the top-selling console spot by Microsoft’s Xbox One. ...

Mitsubishi Result 05/02/2015

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation reported a 53% year on year increase in net profit in the first nine months of the year ...

Dolby and Lionsgate Master Content

Dolby and Lionsgate are working together to release a raft of Lionsgate titles – new and old – mastered in Dolby ...

Power Is Nothing Without Batteries

I’m writing this editorial on the plane on the way back from the MWC event in Barcelona. My tablet is having ...

Immersion-VRelia Shows VR Headsets at CES 2015

Immersion-VRelia, Inc. has developed a VR headset that uses a smartphone as the imaging device. The “GO” product, featured at CES 2015, ...

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Digital TV Hits 1 Billion

by Tom Allen

The digital TV market grew by about 455 million homes between 2010 and 2014, according to Digital TV Research. The increase means that there are now more than 1 billion digital TV households across …

Tags:Cable| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Pay TV| Satellite| Terrestrial (DTT)| TV Reception| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Worldwide

Rockwell Collins Does Optical Bonding – with a Curve

by Chris Chinnock

Optical bonding is one of the best ways to reduce reflections from a display and provide high contrast, full color viewing – even in high ambient light environments. But not all bonding methods are …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Optical Bonding| Rockwell Collins| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

SeeReal Shows Electronic Holographic Display

by Chris Chinnock

The end game for most display enthusiasts is an electronic holographic display that provides no-glasses 3D viewing with high resolution and vertical and horizontal parallax. In other words – a display that is so …

Tags:Holographic Displays| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

SeeFront Sees Success with Eye-Track 3D Display

by Chris Chinnock

SeeFront is a German company we have tracked for a number of years. The company develops eye-tracked autostereoscopic 3D displays for commercial applications. At SID 2015, we had a chance to catch up again …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

DLP Prism Design with Higher Contrast

by Chris Chinnock

The 1-chip DLP engine design uses two back-to-back prisms to allow light to couple light in and out of the DMD chip. The design is quite mature but it has an inherent contrast limitation. …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

University of Waterloo Investigates Pixel Shifting for Projection

by Chris Chinnock

One of the technologies that JVC has focused on is its e-Shift technology. This uses an optical element to project one image and then shift the optical path a half pixel in the diagonal …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pixel Processing| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update (WF10)

by Phillip Wright

Following the session and panel discussion with five speakers moderated by Jack Kent of IHS titled What are Wearables for Anyway, the Display Week 2015 Market Focus Conference – Wearables-Flexible proceeded to an overview …

Tags:AMOLED| ePaper| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| PMOLED| Roll to Roll (R2R)| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearables

Incom Shows Innovations with Polymer Fiber Optic Faceplates

by Chris Chinnock

Last October I had a chance to visit with Incom, and write about this manufacturer of fused fiber optic faceplates. The faceplates are composed of thousands of tiny fiber optics densely packed together – …

Tags:Fused Fibre Optics| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sony Describes New Laser Phosphor Projector Improvements

by Chris Chinnock

In paper 25.2 (High-Brightness Solid-State Source for 4K Ultra-Short Throw Projector), Sony described improvements they have made to the laser phosphor material that will improve projector brightness and lifetime. This is destined for their …

Tags:Laser Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Bicycles may be a Key to Consumer Adoption of Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

Future Cities Catapult is a British-based company focusing on analyzing issues in today’s urban environments and the development of innovations defining the urban society of tomorrow. The company helps innovators and futurists to develop …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24

What are Wearables for Anyway – Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update (WF7)

by Phillip Wright

The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week included a presentation by IHS analysts that touched on What are Wearables for Anyway and a Wearable-Flexible Display Market Update. Coming …

Tags:Android| Android Wear| Apple| iOS (Apple)| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Monetization| Operating Systems| SID Display Week 2015| Tizen| Vol 22 - Issue 24| Wearable Market| Wearables