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High Frame Rate not Getting as Much Attention as HDR

There was not much content or discussion of high frame rate at the SMPTE fall conference this year, but there was ...

Mediatek’s Platform Speeds Time-to-Market

Mediatek’s new smartphone platform, the MT6735, is a 64-bit device designed to speed products’ time-to-market. The MT6735 Mainstream Worldmode Smartphone Platform, ...

The LCD Industry is Like a “Slinky” – really! (BC14)

David Barnes always has a good angle in his talks. This year, his swansong as he has gone into retirement, he ...

Leader Monitor Used at Cinematography Training Centre

Leader’s LV5490 multi-screen signal monitor was chosen for a digital motion picture training centre in the UK. The centre is located ...

Vodafone Spain Adds New 4K Channels

Vodafone España has added UltraHD versions of AMC Networks International Iberia’s cooking channel, Canal Cocina 4K, and lifestyle channel, Canal Decasa ...

Eizo Has 27″ QuadHD Monitors with AdobeRGB & P3

Eizo will be at Photokina with two new colour-critical monitors, the CS2730 and the CG2730. The monitors are both 27″ units ...

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Panasonic Upgrades OLED HDR TV – but Not for North America

by Chris Chinnock

Panasonic issued a press release at CES describing their new OLED TV, but they never mentioned it in their press conference and we never saw it at CES. We heard afterwards that it was …

Tags:CES 2017| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| Panasonic| Vol 24 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Philips Intros First Dolby Vision TV and Other Models

by Chris Chinnock

P&F USA Inc, the company that manages the Philips brand in North America, and managed by Funai, used CES 2017 to introduce four new series of TVs. Only the Philips 4K Ultra HD 8000 …

Tags:CES 2017| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Philips| Vol 24 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Sharp TV Models Announced but Not Shown

by Chris Chinnock

Hisense has control of the Sharp brand in North America – and it announced new TV products, but, surprisingly, didn’t show any – at least none that we saw. Hisense’s press conference was all …

Tags:CES 2017| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| sharp| Vol 24 - Issue 02

LeEco Shows ecoTVs

by Chris Chinnock

LeEco has started to sell a few products in North Americam, starting last fall, and hoping to duplicate their success in China. As we have reported previously, they are introducing a potentially disruptive business …

Tags:CES 2017| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LeEco (formerly LeTV)| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Vuzix Completes FCC Process

by Bob Raikes

Vuzix said that it had completed filing of the FCC process for its M300 Smart Glasses and expects to start shipping very quickly to customers in North America.The company said that the work over …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03| Vuzix

Vuzix Completes FCC Certification Process for M300 Smart Glasses

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to announce that the Company has completed, passed, …

Tags:Certification| SmartGlasses| Vuzix

LG’s Nano Cell / Nano Color Technology Explained

by Chris Chinnock

LG Electronics talked a lot about their Nano Cell technology at CES 2017 and how this improves performance of their Super LCD TVs. They described Nano Cell LCD displays as having, “uniformly-sized particles measuring …

Tags:CES 2017| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 02| Wide Viewing Angles

Sony Adopts Dolby Vision for OLED and LCD TVs

by Chris Chinnock

We had a chance to attend the Sony press conference and tour their booth at CES 2017. TV highlights included: First OLED TV with Crystal Sound (AX1 series) New WCG/HDR LCD TVs (X930E/940E series) …

Tags:CES 2017| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 02| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

CES is Lively

by Bob Raikes

This week we catch up with the general news from the last couple of weeks. We are working on the CES report and you can keep track on the website with our full report. …

Tags:CES 2017| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Shells| Vol 24 - Issue 01

ICDM Meeting Fixed

by Yvette Raikes

The next meeting of the International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM – part of the SID) will take place near San Diego, California, from 7th to 9th March. It will be hosted by LG …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| ICDM| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Apple to get into VR? Watch out for Fake News!

by Bob Raikes

Well, it’s been a busy week and we’ve been beavering away on our CES report and we had hoped to get it finished by today, but it looks as though it won’t be done …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

iOS Gains Against Android – Kantar

by Bob Raikes

Smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows Android sales declined in the US, GB, and France, as iOS continued to make gains across most regions in the three months ending November 2016. iOS …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 02