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Research Shows Streaming Content is on the Way Up

Video streaming is the way of the future for many analysts. Two new research studies show more evidence for this trend. ...

Tech Data to Buy Avnet

Tech Data is to acquire the Technology Solutions business of Avnet for $2.6 billion. The division specialises in datacentre solutions. Distribution ...

The Alien Invasion is Coming to Six Flags

The survival of the planet is at stake. Your mission: to wage an epic battle against alien ships. To do this ...

Sony Skimps on Storage

Website XperiaBlog has found that Sony’s M4 Xperia Aqua (Sony Improves the Look of its Waterproof Devices) is supplied with just ...

EM Micro’s Beacon Achieve Eddystone Certification

Beacons are a hot topic in the public display space. Several companies that we track here at Display Monitor have looked ...

Benq’s HT1075 Wins 2014 EXC!TE Award

Benq America says that the new Colorific HT1075 home theatre projector has been recognised with a Technology Integrator magazine 2014 EXC!TE ...

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Breakfast with Continental

by Ken Werner

Continental Automotive GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) is one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive components, electronic subsystems, and tires. During the company’s Press Day press conference, its spokesman made several interesting points. The company, …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

AVTop Updates HDR Tool

by Bob Raikes

AVTop in Germany has released a new version of its tool called HDRmaster that is designed to the analysis of RAW signal levels of HDR video source files and to edit metadata. AVTop quoted …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Think&Go Brings Transactions to Public Displays

by Bob Raikes

In the Innovation zone in the Sands, we found an interesting company, Think&Go, from Aix en Provence in France that has developed NFC technology that can be fitted into large format displays (LFDs). The …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| NFC| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Apple Sues Qualcomm Over Licensing & Contracts

by Bob Raikes

Apple has filed a suit against Qualcomm that claims that the firm’s policy of charging royalties based on the value of the item being sold is unfair. Apple believes that this penalises its own …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 03

German Consumers Still Like TVs

by Bob Raikes

ZVEI commissioned a survey of 2,000 German consumers and found that the TV is still the preferred way to watch TV but there are changes in viewing practice. The study can be downloaded (although …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart TV| TV Viewing| Vol 24 - Issue 04

Sony

Sony Looking at OLED for 2018 Phones

by Bob Raikes

Sony is reported by Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun to be looking at switching to OLED displays for its high end smartphones in 2018 or 2019. Analyst Comment Frankly, given that the two brand leaders will …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro Has 5.7″ OLED

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has launched a new phone that will start to sell in China and has a 5.7″ FullHD Super AMOLED display. The phone uses an Octacore Snapdragon 625 with 4GB of RAM, and 64GB …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Toshiba To Sell OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

Nikkei reports that Toshiba in Japan plans to launch a 55″ OLED TV in March, with Panasonic due to ship its new models in April. Pricing for the sets has been reducing in Japan, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| toshiba| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Bentley Thinking of Transparent OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Bentley is a very traditional brand in terms of the materials used in its cars – including wood and leather – but the brand also values technology. At the Automotive News World Congress in …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Transparent Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Shuttle XPC DX30 Uses Intel Apollo Lake

by Bob Raikes

Shuttle has released a new box for digital signage and other applications and based on the Intel Apollo Lake 14nm J3355 Celeron CPU from Intel. Resolution support is up to UHD.4K and there are …

Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Comm-Tec Adds LG Digital Signage to its Portfolio

by Isaac Oburu

Comm-Tec has entered into a distribution deal with LG Electronics to distribute LG’s digital signage screens in Germany.

Tags:Distribution| Germany| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| LG Electronics (LGE)| Vol 24 - Issue 03