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Netflix Now Supports HDR Video on Mobiles

Netflix has said that it will support HDR on mobile devices, although at the moment this only applies to content viewed ...

Detachable Google Pixelbook On the Way?

Having recently announced the new Pixelbook, a 10mm-thick 2-in-1 tablet-laptop hybrid with a 12.3″ 360° foldable touch screen and on-board Google ...

Samsung Has Two New UHD Blu-ray Players

Samsung has added two new UltraHD Blu-ray players, the UBD-M9500 and UBD-M8500, which will replace the UBD-K8500, launched last year. The ...

Thomson Enables UltraHD in Italy

Thomson Video Networks has announced that Chili, the Italian content provider, is using the ViBE VS7000 multi-screen and HEVC encoding platform. ...

Rising Flexible Display Technology Patents Herald Future Market Growth

With a recent sharp rise in the number of patent applications for flexible display technologies, the market for various types of ...

LDM Vol 24 Issue 38 Product Roundup

Acnodes Corp of the US has released a new 17.3″ UltraHD monitor that can be rack (8U) mounted or used on ...

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Sharp Buys eLux

by Bob Raikes

Foxconn will acquire US-based MicroLED company, eLux, for around $28 million through shareholdings by Sharp (31.82%), Cybernet (45.45%), Innolux (13.64%) and AOT (9.09%) – all of which are owned by Foxconn. The company was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Acer Looks for Higher ASPs from Gaming

by Bob Raikes

Sources in Taiwan have reported that Acer is looking to raise its monitor ASP this year, while keeping shipments stable, by increasing the share of its product mix of monitors for gamers. Victor Chien, …

Tags:Acer| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Google to Work with Asustek?

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes reports that Google is working with Asustek to make a new smartphone with a 5.7″ display and intended to give a good VR experience that it may launch later in 2017. As we …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Apple iPad Shipments Growing

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes is quoting ‘upstream supply chain’ sources as saying that the shipment of Apple tablets will grow to around 600K units in Jjuly, around 20% ahead of current numbers which include a new 10.5″ …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Xbox One S Now Supports Amazon Prime Video in 4K

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft said that the XBox One S console (Xbox OneS Launches 4K Game Console Era) will now support UltraHD video sources, using the Amazon Prime Instant Video app. After the announcement, Microsoft confirmed that …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 20| xBox

Amazon Adds Channels in Three Countries

by Bob Raikes

Amazon has started a ‘Channels’ service for live TV to its Prime platform in the UK, Germany and Austria. The á la carte service allows individual channels to be added and include Discovery, Eurosport …

Tags:Amazon| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 20

ATSC 3.0 Conference Optimistic On Next Generation Television

by Aldo Cugnini

With the completion of the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard now imminent, technologists, business executives, and industry experts gathered last week in Washington, DC for the “NextGen TV Conference: Powered by ATSC 3.0.” …

Tags:ATSC| Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Consumer IT Market Down in Germany, but Overall Up

by Bob Raikes

The GfU in Germany has published its latest Hemix (home electronics) index, an extension of the previous Cemix index to now include electrical appliances and small appliances. I the first quarter of 2017, business …

Tags:Germany| GFU| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

SID Business Conference Buzzes on OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

I’ve just got back from my first day at the SID Display Week, and I spent it at the Business Conference, run this year by Display Supply Chain Consultants, a new market research firm …

Microsoft Research Publishes Results on a Phase Only Holographic Projection System

by Norbert Hildebrand

Siggraph 2017 is shaping up to be a very interesting conference for holographic display enthusiasts. Just a little while ago Facebook / Oculus announced their work on a head mounted display system to overcome …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Laser| Microsoft| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

First Metrology Workshop was Well Received

by Chris Chinnock

Metrology is the art and practice of measurement and the International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) is devoted to developing display measurement methods. At the SID DisplayWeek in LA this week, the group organized …

Tags:Automotive| Display Metrology| ICDM| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Projection Mapping Used in Manila Casino

by Bob Raikes

Christie has provided a projector to light up the new Okada casino in Manila. A glass walkway is using projection mapping once dusk hits to illuminate the window panels on the arched corridor. There …

Tags:Christie| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| Vol 24 - Issue 20