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Kramer Switch Reaches 17.82Gbps

Kramer has released a switcher that can handle DCI-4k 60Hz content with 4:4:4 colourimetry. The VS-211H2 has a maximum data rate ...

Amazon Launches Cloud-Based VR/AR App Builder

Amazon Web Services has announced Sumerian, a new service for building VR, AR and 3D applications for mobile devices, head-mounted displays, ...

45% of WE Broadband Homes Have a Smart TV

Parks Associates said that 45% of Western European broadband households own a smart TV, with the highest percentage in Germany, where ...

DoE Invests in Blue Materials

OLED lighting maker OLEDWorks has received a grant from the US Department of Energy, to investigate blue OLED materials. The intent ...

First Metrology Workshop was Well Received

Metrology is the art and practice of measurement and the International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) is devoted to developing display ...

Sharp Shuns Samsung TV Panel Business

The Nikkei and the Japan Times report that Foxconn has decided that Sharp should stop supplying panels to Samsung’s TV business ...

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QMC Achieves Cadmium-Free Production

by Tom Allen

Quantum Materials Corporation (QMC) of San Marcos, Texas, is now shipping evaluation and production quantities of its red and green cadmium-free quantum dots (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 7).

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Andromium MHL Dock turns Smartphones into Notebooks

by Bob Raikes

Andromium has developed a “guest OS” and hardware dock to turn smartphones into notebooks, exploiting the MHL architecture. The product is aimed at developing markets and the firm says that complete packages of phone …

Tags:Android| Emerging Markets| MHL| Notebooks| USB| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Samsung Display Apparently New Apple Supplier

by Tom Allen

As we have reported in the past (Apple Looks to LG for AMOLED), it is very likely that LG Display is supplying the flexible AMOLED screen to be used on the Apple Watch. New …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Electronic Partner to Distribute Hisense in Germany

by Helen Vince

Electronic Partner in Germany is to become an exclusive distributor of Hisense smartphones and tablets across the country.

Tags:Channels| Distribution| Germany| Hisense| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 10

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Lenovo Names new Head of Channel Business

by Helen Vince

Lenovo’s head of SMB in Germany and Austria, Robert Pasquier, has decided to leave the company and is to be replaced by Bernhard Fauser. Fauser currently serves as director of sales for Lenovo’s Central …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Valve Streams Games Cheaply, Provides Console Release Date

by Tom Allen

Valve has finally provided a date for the release of its Steam Machine consoles. Units will begin to be released from November this year. At the same time the company showed off the Steam …

Tags:Broadcast| Consoles| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Steam Consoles| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Gear VR Consumer Version Coming This Year, Says Oculus

by Tom Allen

Samsung’s Gear VR (Samsung Brings B2B to Consumer Show) will be launched this year alongside the Galaxy Note 5 – or so implied John Carmack, CTO of Oculus VR. Carmack told Game Developers’ Conference …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| phablets| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Semiconductors Rise to New January High

by Tom Allen

Worldwide semiconductor sales in January were the highest they have ever been at the beginning of a year, according to the USA’s Semiconductor Industry Association. Total sales reached $28.5 billion – an 8.7% YoY …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Semiconductors| Vol 22 - Issue 10| Worldwide

HTC’s February Sales Rise 27% YoY

by Helen Vince

HTC achieved a 27.7% year on year rise in sales in February to NT$9.2 billion ($292.1 million), though this was 25% lower than January’s result. Last month’s total brought sales for the first two …

Tags:Financial Data| HTC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

TPK January Sales Drop 34% YoY

by Helen Vince

Taiwanese touch panel manufacturer TPK Holdings reported a 34% year on year fall in sales in February to NT$7.3 billion ($231.7 million), though this was almost 4% higher than January. So far this year, …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Market| TPK| Vol 22 - Issue 11

DVB-T2 with HEVC Trialled in Czech Republic (Again)

by Tom Allen

Czech broadcast network operator Ceske Radiokomunikace has begun a second test of DVB-T2 with HEVC, following a trial last year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 28). This test is expected to last until February …

Tags:Czech Republic| DVB-T & T2| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10