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Games better on Daydream than Gear VR?

A review by Tom’s Hardware that explains that an air combat game, Bandit Six, runs better on a Daydream smartphone than ...

Mitsubishi Electric to Exhibit at CES 2018

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503) announced that it will exhibit cutting-edge technologies and products, including its EMIRAI4 driving-assistance concept car for safer ...

Gigabyte Adds Thunderbolt Box, Front HDMI and UHD Blu-ray on a PC

At Computex, Gigabyte was showing the Aorus brand, which it is now using for its high end gaming PCs. The brand ...

Tech Data Result 1/9/2017

Tech Data announced FY17 Q2 result with net sales of $8.8 billion with net income (Non GAAP) of $66.7 million, resulting ...

SID Display Week iZone Extends Deadline

The deadline for applications to Display Week’s innovation Zone (iZone) was extended to March 27th. As committee chair Helge Seetzen explained, ...

The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation

This Display Daily article will provide some background on Google’s Project Ara modular phone project and report on recent developments at ...

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News Appetizers for Thanksgiving

by Chris Chinnock

Yes, it is Thanksgiving tomorrow in the U.S. In thinking about a topic to cover for the day before Thanksgiving, I reviewed some recent news for ideas. Rather than expand on one of the …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| MicroLED| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 44

DisplayMate Measures A Couple of TVs

by Bob Raikes

Ray Soneira of DisplayMate, no doubt with some support from LG Displays, has published a detailed review of an LG IPS TV (LG 65SJ9500 Nano Cell 65 inch TV) and a Samsung set (Samsung …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 44

GFU: Positive Development in Consumer Electronics Sales in Q3 2017

by Andrew Fenn

The home electronics market index HEMIX shows a Consumer Electronics sales increase of 2.6% year-on-year to over €18.6 billion ($22.03 billion), according to data from GFU. Televisions generated sales of just under €2.9 billion …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Glasgow Care Home Chooses AV System from SSUK and LG

by Andrew Fenn

Riverside, a £17 million ($22.6 million) care home, has opened in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, featuring an AV system from SSUK and LG. Each of the facility’s 120 bedrooms includes a 43″ LG SM5KB display, allowing …

Tags:Back Panel| Hospitality TVs| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 44

DSC Promotes WILL for Digital Ink

by Bob Raikes

The Digital Stationery Consortium, Inc. (DSC) announced a new white paper, “New Business Opportunities Fueled by the Emerging Digital Stationery Market” that looks at the development of ‘digital ink’ and the the development of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Crossbar Switch for USB Type-C is Up for Award

by Bob Raikes

Diodes Inc has been shortlisted for an award for the PI3USB31532 USB 3.1 Gen 2/DisplayPort 1.4 Crossbar Switch for USB Type-C. The company, which is in the running for an Ace award, claims to …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Visteon and PT Astra Otoparts Open New Vietnam Facility

by Andrew Fenn

Automotive electronics technology supplier Visteon and component manufacturer PT Astra Otoparts are expanding the production and supply of instrument clusters and multi-function displays to major vehicle and motorcycle manufacturers in Vietnam. The Astra Visteon …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Barco Silex Wins Imagenics 4K HDMI adaptor

by Bob Raikes

Barco Silex said that Imagenics of Japan is using its VC-2 HQ codec (standardized as SMPTE ST-2042) in its new 4K IMG.Link Rev2 HDMI receiver and transmitter modules for long range video transmission. They …

Tags:Back Panel| Barco| Codecs| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 44

US Department of Justice Blocks AT&T/Time Warner Deal

by Andrew Fenn

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has blocked AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. Not only that, but it has also filed a lawsuit to prevent it from ever happening, claiming that the $85 billion …

Tags:AT&T| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Time Warner| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 44

DVB Completes UHD-1 Specification

by Bob Raikes

The DVB steering board has finalised the DVB UHD-1 specification, which is now considered complete and supports HDR, UltraHD resolution, wide colour gamut and HFR. There are also amendments to the ETSI TS 103 …

Tags:DVB| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Correction

by Bob Raikes

Apologies, in our report on the NEC New York showcase, we referred to the NEC dual laser technology as “Laser Plus”. That was incorrect and the correct term is “RB Laser” and NEC has …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| NEC| Vol 24 - Issue 44