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Apple Points the Way for User Interface Advances

Apple’s March 9, 2015 press event disclosed a fairly extensive range of new products and initiatives. As I reported in my ...

Stampede Appointed by Visionect

Visionect has appointed Stampede as the North American distribution partner for its ‘Joan’ digital door displays and meeting room schedulers. According ...

Technicolor Promotes Open HDR Adoption

HD Guru has published an interview with Mark Turner, of Technicolor, which goes into detail about HDR, UltraHD and wide colour ...

MWC Round-Up

We wrote about the Analogix Nano-console at CES. Now the product is getting close to shipment. The firm was also at ...

Sony Shows First Laser Phosphor Projector Capable of HDR

Sony showed several new 3LCD projectors with laser phosphor technology, but the most interesting one is a new 4k SXRD projector ...

Cisco Cuts 7% of Workforce; More Layoffs Rumoured

Cisco, according to CRN, is about to make as many as 14,000 employees redundant, representing almost 20% of the company’s global ...

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LG Promotes Nanocell on YouTube

by Bob Raikes

LG Electronics has made a celebrity video that is published on YouTube (with 3.5 million views, when we looked) that shows footballers Steven Gerrard and Adam Lallana kicking footballs at two different video walls …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| Vol 24 - Issue 28| YouTube

111.8 million Smartphones Shipped to China in the Second Quarter

by Alan Spencer

The latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for the second quarter of this year, reveals that there were 111.8 million smartphones shipped to China in the quarter, with growth being flat when compared to …

Tags:China| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 28

IDC: AR/VR Growth to Double Each Year Through 2021

by Andrew Fenn

IDC has released a new report predicting that augmented and virtual reality will grow by at least 100% each year from now until 2021. In terms of revenue, this represents an increase from the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Samsung Reduces its TV Set Targets

by Bob Raikes

According to reports from Taiwan, confirmed to LDM by industry sources, say that Samsung has reduced its business plan for TVs this year from around 48/49 million at the end of 2017 to around …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| TV Set Market| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Linden Lab Introduces Sansar VR Creation Platform

by Norbert Hildebrand

Linden Lab, the San Francisco based VR development company that introduced us to Second Life and Blocksworld has opened the Sansar Creator beta to developers. Sansar is a development platform that allows developers to …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 28

TI Makes Pico DLP Accessible

by Bob Raikes

TI has made available the DLP LightCrafter Display 2000 evaluation module (EVM) that includes a 0.2″ DLP chipset and costs just $99. The EVM’s dual connector is set up to support any flexible GPIO-driven …

Tags:DLP| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Smartphone Volumes Reach 341.6 million in the Q2 2017

by Alan Spencer

Preliminary results from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, show that OEMs shipped 341.6 million smartphones worldwide in Q2 2017, declining 1.3% compared to the same quarter a year ago, and down 0.8% …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Maverick Supports Surface Hub with Services

by Bob Raikes

Maverick, the AV division of Tech Data in Europe, said that it has now sold 6,000 Microsoft Surface Hub sets in Europe and is now launching a range of bespoke physical and virtual services …

Tags:Collaboration| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| TechData| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Sharp Adds Three Professional LCD Display Products

by Bob Raikes

Sharp in the US has launched the PN-LE 601/701/801 commercial LCD displays which have 60.1″, 69.5″ and 80″ diagonals, respectively. The 90″ PN-LE901 is already available. The new models have FullHD resolution and also …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Vol 24 - Issue 28