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Big Focus on Quantum Dots by Samsung at IFA

On the first day of press events, Samsung held a launch event for the Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch, attended by its ...

Shih Names Successor at Asus

Asus’ chairman Jonney Shih has announced that CSO, Ted Hsu, will succeed him within the next two years. Hsu was a ...

Quanta Sees Better November

Quanta Computer posted November turnover of NTD92.55 billion ($2.9 billion), up 5% YoY, resulting in revenue of NTD789.02 billion ($24.8 billion) ...

Humax Plans to Add Force Touch

Humax was showing its full range of STBs. It has a new remote control that uses force-based touch to make navigation ...

Smithsonian Brings Nature to the Living Room

Smithsonian has launched a new UltraHD service in the USA: a nature streaming service called Smithsonian Earth. At launch, it is ...

Facebook Shows its VR chat rooms

The BBC got invited to try out Facebook’s VR chat room which allow those that want to communicate using avatars. There ...

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Corning Lotus NXT Glass Chosen for Samsung Display’s Flexible LTPS-OLED Line (2)

by Bob Raikes

Corning said that Samsung’s flexible LTPS OLED production line would use the Corning Lotus NXT glass as the carrier for manufacture. Corning also said that the Galaxy S8 and S8+ use Gorilla Glass 5. …

Tags:Corning| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 20

JOLED Samples 21.6″ UHD Printed OLED Monitor Displays

by Bob Raikes

JOLED is starting to make samples available of its 21.6″ UltraHD printed OLED monitor panel. The panel has brightness of 350 cd/m² and contrast of 1,000,000:1. The panel is 1.3mm thick and weighs 500gms. …

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

Google To Put 360º Video on TVs

by Milos Pavlovic

At the Google I/O event, the company announced that it is to support 360º video on the web or on mobile devices based on Android, including the NVidia Shield, That will mean that content …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Google| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Netflix Upsets French Cinema Business

by Bob Raikes

Netflix has been under fire at the Cannes film festival over its decision not to release two of its ‘films’, which are being shown at the festival, into French cinemas. The company is also …

Tags:Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| Vol 24 - Issue 20

JCDecaux Gets Rotterdam Transport Contract

by Yvette Raikes

JCDecaux has won the five year contract for Rotterdam public transport company RET’s outdoor advertising, taking over from Exterion Media, which in turn replaced CBS Outdoor. The contract covers passenger shelters, trams, buses and …

Tags:DOOH| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Music score as a screen with digital notes

by Bob Raikes

The Terrada Music Score Co. Ltd. from Japan has launched the Gvido music score reader which uses two 13.3″ E Ink Carta displays to display music in PDF format. The display is fitted with …

Tags:E Ink| Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

DOOH Up 46% in Germany According to Nielsen

by Bob Raikes

The DMI organisation in Germany has drawn attention to Nielsen data on advertising that shows that spending in Q1 rose to €7.99 billion, up 2% on the previous year from €7.83 billion. Print media …

Tags:Advertising| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Global TV Sales Down YoY in Q1 on Weak Chinese Market

by Bob Raikes

Witsview in Taiwan has reported that shipments of LCD TVs in Q1 reached 44.05 million, down 8.4% on the same period in 2016 and a drop of 31% from Q4 2016 and the company …

Tags:Large Display Monitor

Q1 2017 Sees 410,000 Drop in US Pay-TV Subscribers

by Yvette Raikes

The biggest pay-TV providers in the USA lost around 410,000 net video subscribers in Q1 2017, according to analysts Leichtman Research. In the same quarter last year, they added 10,000 subscribers. The top six …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 20

OTT Content Available Throughout EU

by Yvette Raikes

When visiting another EU country, citizens often cannot access content paid for in their own country. Under new rules, approved by the European Parliament last week, restrictions will been removed and online subscription content …

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

RSCrypto Uses Frog by Wyplay

by Yvette Raikes

The group using Frog by Wyplay now includes conditional access security company RSCrypto and numbers over 150. RSCrypto uses the open source software to allow operators to have control over their own security.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Software| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 20

US Marines Enhance AR Training

by Norbert Hildebrand

While this new training tool used by the US Marines is not quite on the level of ‘The Matrix’, it still allows enhancement of the particular areas of training in real life soldiers at …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Training| Vol 24 - Issue 20