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TI EVM Speeds Pico Time to Market

Texas Instruments has developed a new evaluation module (EVM) and pico display chipset, which can be used to generate 1920 x ...

Rumour: Tariff Rise to Hit LEDs in China

China may raise import tariffs on LEDs from 4% to 10%, local media claims. The move would be taken to advance ...

Oculus CEO Moves Down to Lead Division

The CEO of Facebook-owned VR company Oculus, Brendan Iribe, has stepped down to lead the PC VR group within the firm. ...

LGD & Sony Agree OLED Supply Deal

Korean sources have reported that Sony has signed a deal with LG Displays to buy OLED panels from Q2 this year, ...

Videor Now Distributing Vestel Digital Signage in DACH

As of September 2017, Videor is authorised to distribute the entire Vestel range of digital signage products in Germany, Austria and ...

Dynamic Focus on 46″ Full HD LCD Public Displays

This week we are highlighting LCD Public Displays in the 46″ Full HD category covering sizes 43.5″ to 48.49″ with 1920 ...

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360º Drone Has Five Mile Range

by Bob Raikes

We don’t normally cover drones – we could probably fill the newsletter every week with stories – but 360 Designs has created a new system using a Matrice 600 Pro drone combined with a …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 360 Degree Video| AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Vienna Gets LED Totem

by Bob Raikes

EpaMedia of Austria has installed a three-sided LED tower of 1.5 x 4.5 m and with a total area of 21 m² in an installation that is 8 metres high and weighs six tonnes. …

Tags:Austria| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Shakespeare’s The Tempest is Using Virtual Characters

by Alan Spencer

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) will be putting on a new production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” using video mapping to bring a virtual character to the stage in London this year. In the production, …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Could Epistar Start MicroLED Production in 2017?

by Bob Raikes

Epistar is planning to start making microLED chips at about 100 micron size in the second half of 2017 and to be used in large displays according to a report from Digitimes. The bloq …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Netflix Misses Subscriber Target

by Alan Spencer

Netflix has released its latest subscriber figures for the first quarter of this year. The US subscriber base grew by 1.42 million with international subscribers growing by 3.53 million. Netfix’s projections were for a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Now There are Four… as ZTE Pushes Smartphones in USA

by Steve Sechrist

Strategy Analytics updated its smartphone US market tracking, reporting strong growth for smartphones from the China-based ZTE brand. The company is now in fourth place in the USA market, edging out domestic Chinese competitor, …

Tags:Apple| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 15| ZTE

LightSpace 3D Volumetric Displays Are Back

by Arthur Berman

Several years ago, LightSpace Technologies Inc. (Riga, Latvia, Twinsburg, OH and San Jose, CA) offered a 3D volumetric display product. The product was not successful and the company went out of business. The latest …

Tags:Vol 24 - Issue 15| Volumetric Displays

Avegant Wins More Funding

by Bob Raikes

Avegant, which has so far focused on headsets for viewing video, has raised $13.7m in additional funding to further develop its ‘light field’ displays. The FT reports that Avegant has now raised around $50 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Display Week in LA in 2017

by Bob Raikes

This year’s Display Week will be in Los Angeles, in line with the policy of holding the event on the West Coast of the US to make travel and logistics easier for companies in …

Midwich Acquires Earpro

by Alan Spencer

Midwich has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a majority stake in Earpro, a value-added distributor of audio, video and lighting solutions in Spain and Portugal that distributes audio vendors including Shure and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Midwich plc| Portugal| Spain| Vol 24 - Issue 15

New LED at T5 is Heathrow’s Largest

by Bob Raikes

8 Outdoor of the UK has launched a new LED display at Terminal 5 of London’s Heathrow airport which the company claims is both the largest exterior digital display at the airport and engages …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| LED| Outdoor Displays| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Trafford Centre Adds Four New LED Displays

by Bob Raikes

Perfect Fit Media of Manchester in the UK has set up four large displays leading into the TraffordCity and TraffordCentre in the city. Four large-scale sequential without motion media sites (two landscape 14m wide …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 15