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Archos Releases Low-cost Gear VR Competitor

French company Archos is to release a low-cost competitor to Samsung’s Gear VR (and, we guess, Google Cardboard), with the Archos ...

TigerDirect Jumps on Virtual Reality Bandwagon

Virtual Reality – Major distributor TigerDirect sees virtual reality as getting ready to take off, so they are now starting to ...

IHS Predicts Nine Times Rise in QD Share

IHS has published a report on the wide colour gamut display market. This market is expected to grow from 2.8% of ...

Mas Continues With Wintel

Germany’s Mas Elektronik has introduced the ‘big brother’ to its Xoro Pad 8W2 tablet. The Xoro Pad 10W4 is one of ...

JCDecaux Supports Portrait of Britain

JCDecaux is repeating a project with the British Journal of Photography to show 100 ‘Portraits of Britain’ on displays around the ...

Philips Brings AmbiLight to Public Displays & Adds a CMS

Philips held a press tour on the first day of the show and we went around the booth. Chris Sluys of ...

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Online Advertising is Bigger than TV

by Bob Raikes

Magna Global has forecast that global advertising will grow by 3.7% to $505 billion in 2017 and highlighted that digital media are now taking more revenue than TV, the first time this happened. 54% …

Tags:Advertising| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 23

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AUO Drops Half G10.5 Plan

by Bob Raikes

We reported recently on a decision by Samsung to back away from a half G10.5 fab (Samsung Display Switches Plan from LCD to OLED) and now the PJTime blog has reported that AUO has …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Global Pay TV Revenues Climb by $32 Billion

by Milos Pavlovic

Pay TV revenues for 138 countries increased by $32 billion between 2010 and 2016 to reach $202 billion. However, only $1.23 billion was added in 2016, according to the Global Pay TV Revenue Databook. …

Global Pay-TV Revenues Reach $202 billion

by Alan Spencer

The pay-TV revenues increased by $32 billion for 138 countries, between 2010 and 2016 to reach $202 billion. However, only $1.23 billion was added in 2016, according to research carried out by Digital TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 23

SID 2017 Report: Is StoreDot Shifting Focus Away from OLEDs?

by Ken Werner

We first became interested in StoreDot a couple of years ago at CES when they showed organic molecules that have properties similar to those of quantum dots. (StoreDot: An Organic Quantum Dot Alternative) This …

Tags:Batteries| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 23

SID 2017 Report: Merck Discusses Flexible LCDs

by Ken Werner

Apologies, because of some production issues, these items were omitted from our main SID 2017 report. Among the many things Merck representatives were happy to discuss at their Display Week booth was the continuing …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanoco| OLED Materials| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 23

SID 2017 Report: 3M Adds More Display Films to its Arsenal

by Ken Werner

Apologies, because of some production issues, these items were omitted from our main SID 2017 report. Among the many optical films 3M showed in its booth at SID Display Week, was an optimized phone …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Automotive| Film materials| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 23

LG Electronics and MStar Committed to Eurofins’ Logo Scheme

by Alan Spencer

Eurofins Digital Testing has announced that LG Electronics and MStar have committed to Eurofins’ 4K HDR Ultra HD logo technical requirements in their forthcoming products. The 4K HDR Ultra HD logo provides assurance that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 23

SID UK Meeting Covers Microdisplays

by Bob Raikes

The SID in the UK has a meeting on 28th June at the Begbroke Science Park at the University of Oxford when the topic will be microdisplays. Speakers will cover microLED and waveguide optics …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Large Display Monitor| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Society| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Sharp Adds Freeze Frame and Blackout to Big Pad

by Bob Raikes

Sharp has two new Big Pad Interactive Displays. The 70” PN-70SC5 and 80” PN-80SC5 include ‘Freeze Frame’ and ‘Blackout’ buttons on the bezel to give a presenter the ability to instantly freeze or blank …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Dixons Carphone and Sprint End Retail Partnership

by Alan Spencer

Sprint of the US, and Dixons Carphone of the UK, have decided to end their joint partnership which has lasted under two years, and was focused on retail expansion in the US. It is …

Tags:Channels| Dixons| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 23

New Google Hire Suggests System Chip for Next Pixel

by Alan Spencer

A new hire by Google suggest that the company may be intending to develop its own chips for future versions of its Pixel phone. The new hire is an engineer named Manu Gulati who …

Tags:Chips| Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 23