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Media-Saturn Creates Electronics Online Group

Media-Saturn is to create a portfolio of online pure-play companies and concepts under the name Electronics Online Group (EOG), with its ...

Ingram Micro Partners With Huawei

Huawei’s consumer mobility and telephony products are to be distributed by Ingram Micro in Switzerland.

Technicolor Abandons HEVC Advance

Technicolor has withdrawn from the HEVC Advance patent pool. Instead, the firm has decided to license its HEVC IP portfolio directly ...

Wide Color Gamuts and High Dynamic Range

Broadcast and Distribution – Think of this as Part 3 of my recent series of Display Dailys on expanded color gamuts and ...

High Resolution for Verizon’s Mid-Range Tablet

Verizon continues to expand its own self-branded tablet offering in the USA. Having launched the Ellipsis 8 and Ellipsis Kids models ...

Chromecast Has 50Hz Support

Google has released a software update, which brings support for the 50Hz frame rate to its Chromecast dongle. Previously the device ...

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Sony Delays Z4 Tablet

by Tom Allen

Sony has postponed the launch date of its Xperia Z4 tablet, revealed at MWC 2015, to the 29th June. The Wi-Fi version can be pre-ordered now, for £415 ($645).

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| sony| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 24

LG G4 Available in UK

by Helen Vince

LG’s new G4 smartphone is now available in the UK through Exertis and selected high street and network operator LG partners.

Tags:Distribution| Exertis| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Visionox Begins AMOLED Mass-Production

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeChina’s Visionox has begun mass-production of a 5.5″ AMOLED display panel, for the mid-range/high-end smartphone market. The company is using its G5.5 plant for the process (Visionox Follows Samsung in OLED Capacity).

Tags:AMOLED| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Large Battery Options for Handheld Group’s Rugged Tablet

by Tom Allen

The Handheld Group’s Algiz A10X-7P01-V2 is a rugged tablet PC, running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on a quad-core Intel Celeron CPU, with 4GB of RAM. It is compliant with IP65 and MIL-STD-810G protection, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Taiwan Chip Makers Post Increased Sales

by Helen Vince

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) achieved a 15.4% year on year increase in sales in May to NT$70.1 billion ($2.2 billion), though this was 6.9% lower than the previous month. TSMC’s sales for the first …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| TSMC| UMC| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Canal+ Expands Hybrid Offer

by Tom Allen

Canal+ has launched a new DTT/OTT receiver in France. Viewers can use the unit – Le Cube S – to access all of the company’s content via DTT signals or the internet.

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Kopin Positive on New Applications (IC10)

by Bob Raikes

Dr John Fan is CEO of Kopin, which makes microdisplays. Fan said that the company is looking strongly at going into wearables. He said that the headset is the most important wearable device, but …

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

Gagnon Warns on Inelastic Market for Large TVs (IC7)

by Bob Raikes

In a talk over lunch, Paul Gagnon of IHS gave a good talk on TV trends. He was very interesting on the conservative nature of buyers of very big screens. The sales of very …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| TV Set Market| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Tactus Adds Feeling to Touch (IC6)

by Bob Raikes

Tactus is a developer of IP for creating raised areas on touch screens, which it calls “Phorm”. This can be used to create better keyboards and input systems. The company has its first product …

Tags:Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Prysm Continues its Pivots (IC5)

by Bob Raikes

Stuart Monks is from Prysm which has developed LPD laser phosphor displays. Monks came from Polycom to join the company and is looking at how collaboration occurs in an enterprise. Prysm, as we have …

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

Haptics Have Lots of Growth Opportunities (IC4)

by Bob Raikes

The next section was entitled “Evolution of the Immersive Experience” and covered a range of technologies. Immersion is a company that is “about haptics” which it sees as the feedback for touch experiences. The …

Tags:Automotive| Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Apps| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Nanoco Sees QD Applications beyond Displays (IC3)

by Bob Raikes

Keith Wiggins is from Nanoco, the UK-based firm which has specialised in non-cadmium quantum dots. The company has 112 staff with more than 80 chemists. Wiggins believes that businesses that have a “sensory” impact …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanoco| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24