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Gartner Lowers Chip Growth Prediction

Semiconductor revenue will rise 2.2% YoY this year, to $348 billion, says Gartner – although this is down from the Q4’14 ...

VIZIO Announces Addition of XUMO to VIZIO SmartCastTM App Experience

VIZIO, Inc. announced today the addition of XUMO, the premier live and video-on-demand (VOD) over-the-top (OTT) service for the digital age, ...

Start Menu Makes Reappearance in Threshold Video

Screenshots and video has appeared that purport to show the Windows 9 technical preview. In a video (http://tinyurl.com/q3fnasy), German website Winfuture ...

LG UltraFine 5K/4K Displays Designed For Ultimate Mac User Experience

LG Electronics (LG) is introducing two new displays designed specifically to integrate seamlessly with the newest MacBook and MacBook Pro models. ...

Worldwide Shipments of AR/VR Headsets Rise Q1 2017

According to IDC, worldwide shipments of AR and VR headsets continued to rise with a total of 2.3 million units shipped ...

Bonhams Sells Apple’s Most Expensive Computer Ever

Remember that working Apple One auctioned by Bonhams last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41)? The house thought that it ...

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Foxconn Makes Plans for UHD & 8K Panels

by Bob Raikes

IHS Market reports that Sharp is to increase its production of TV panels from its older G8 Kameyama plant. As well as 45″, 55″, 80″ and 90″ UltraHD panels, the company is considering 45″ …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 24 - Issue 03

ABI Research

Linear OTT to Grow from $1 billion to $7 billion

by Bob Raikes

ABI Research said that broadcasters and service providers will be decreasing marketing on their cable, satellite, and IPTV products that offer managed quality of service in favor of new products that use over the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Samsung Refreshes A Series Phones – boosts QD Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Samsung refreshed its A3/A5/A7 range of smartphones at CES. They all have Super AMOLED displays in 4.7″ (HD), 5.2″ (FHD) and 5.5″ (FHD) and feature 3D glass with a metal frame. They use A-53 …

Tags:CES 2017| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Foxconn Talks Up US Display Investment

by Bob Raikes

Terry Gou of Foxconn said that in the light of the recent comments from the new US President, the company would consider building a display plant, through its Sharp subsidiary. The information was inadvertently …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 03

LG Has New Monitors and Projectors

by Bob Raikes

As well as TVs, LG had plenty of other products on its stand. There were not so many professional products on the booth this year, but in the middle was a ‘pillar’ made of …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Transparent Displays| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Samsung Ties up with Calman

by Chris Chinnock

One of the key messages themes from Samsung, and I suspect will be for the whole TV industry in 2017, was color volume over color gamut. Color volume takes into account the color performance …

Tags:CES 2017| Display Calibration| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Portrait Displays| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 03| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

DigiLens Secures $22M from Key Strategic Partners

by Chris Chinnock

DigiLens, a provider of diffractive waveguide technology for Augmented Reality (AR) and Head-up Displays (HUD), announced they have closed a Series B round of investment to the tune of $22M. “The round was oversubscribed …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foxconn (Honhai)| Head Up Displays HUDs| Panasonic| Rockwell Collins| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Optoma Aggressive with Projectors for Consumers

by Bob Raikes

Optoma was meeting channel partners in a suite in the Westgate to show its planned products for the home market.The company was keen to point out that the products at the event are for …

Tags:CES 2017| DLP Projectors| Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| UST Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Redux Wants to Bring Display Surfaces to Life

by Bob Raikes

We met with Redux, a company that is based in the UK, in Cambridge and is working on sound and haptics. It describes its technology as ‘bringing surfaces to life’. The company was set …

Tags:audio| CES 2017| Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

VR Motion Tracking at CES 2017

by Steve Sechrist

VR is going through its own evolution and firms are looking to solve some interesting problems as we move closer to a suspended belief experience and enter the truly virtual world of computer generated …

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

Fitbit Acquires Vector

by Bob Raikes

After buying Pebble in December (Fitbit/Pebble Deal is Confirmed), Fitbit has acquired Vector, a start-up that has its own software platform and is designed to complement smartphones. Features of the Vector watches include always …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Urban Translations Works with Samsung on Hospitality

by Bob Raikes

Urban Translations has partnered with Samsung to support the use of Samsung’s tablets in the hospitality industry. The firm’s software is intentded to enable guests to order menu items and amenities in any language …

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