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Gartner’s US Symposium is Sold Out

Gartner’s US Symposium/ITxpo 2015 (4th – 8th October in Orlando, FL) is now sold out. Parties still interested in attending can ...

PeLEDs Have OLED-Beating Efficiency

Researchers at Korea’s Pohang University claim to have developed a perovskite LED (PeLED) with a luminous efficiency that can compete with ...

Meizu Increases Shipments 540%

China’s Meizu shipped 8.9 million smartphones in the first half of 2015, it has announced: a 540% YoY rise. Chinese media ...

LG Videos Show Korean OLEDs

LG installed OLED displays in Korea’s Incheon Airport and outside the N. Seoul Tower last year (OLED ‘Sculptures’ to be Built ...

Live Streaming the Next Wave

One of the more compelling applications to come from the (now defunct? – No, we reported on this a couple of ...

HDMI 2.1 Finalised – Support for 4K120 and 10K

HDMI has formally released Version 2.1 of the HDMI specification that includes a new Ultra High Speed HDMI cable that will ...

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Jaunt Unveils Custom PlayStation VR App in Time for the Holidays

by Isaac Oburu

Jaunt Inc., the industry leader in cinematic virtual reality (VR), today announced the availability of its Jaunt VR App for the PlayStation®VR (PS VR) system. With the existing customer base of PlayStation®4 owners recently …

Tags:PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality

Samsung Updates New Notebook 9 Line

by Isaac Oburu

The Samsung Notebook 9 delivers the latest in Notebook technology in a sleek and light design. With advanced features including enhanced connectivity, premium display and an added layer of security, the Samsung Notebook 9 …

Tags:Notebooks| Samsung

Crystalplex: A Different Approach to Quantum Dots

by Ken Werner

Crystalplex Corp., a very small 12-year-old company with headquarters in Pittsburgh, was recently awarded a patent for an important piece of IP for making “air-stable” quantum dots. And last Friday, I had an exclusive …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 51

The Year of OLED, Perhaps…

by Bob Raikes

We’ve managed to get the newsletters finished slightly early this week so that the team can get the weekend off. We normally like to take a publishing break around the holiday. However, because CES …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Freeview Goes HD Only for New Sets

by Bob Raikes

Freeview in the UK has said that it will withdraw the Freeview logo from STBs and TVs from new devices from new devices that cannot support HD. The group said that Freeview is watched …

Tags:DTV| FTA (Free to Air)| HDTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 51

IHSMarkit

IHS Warns on UHD Danger

by Bob Raikes

A report from IHS Markit on UltraHD content and quoted by Advanced Television has suggested that UltraHD may follow from S3D because too few titles have been mastered in higher resolutions. Although the report …

Tags:4k| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 51

LCD TV Panels Down 0.9% Monthly in November

by Milos Pavlovic

WitsView, part of TrendForce of Taiwan, reported sales of LCD panels for TV as reaching 22.79 million in November, only 0.9% down on October, as brands looked to keep inventories solid for the Chinese …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| TV Production| Vol 23 - Issue 51

Sony 100″ TV Now Available – at a price!

by Bob Raikes

Sony’s Z9D top of the range TVs were announced back in July, but the 100″ was not available, nor was pricing available. However, the set is now being advertised as becoming available, initially in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| sony| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 51

Axiomtek Supports UltraHD with OPS

by Bob Raikes

Axiomtek of Taiwan has developed the OPS500-501 and OPS500-501-H OPS modules which use Intel’s 6th Gen (Skylake) Core i3/i5/i7 processors and up to 16GB of memory. The systems support UltraHD at 60Hz both through …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| OPS| Vol 23 - Issue 51

Apple Re-Aligning MacBook Panel Supply

by Bob Raikes

IHS said in its blog that Apple will maintain sales of the existing ‘legacy’ MacBook Pro for those that cannot afford to upgrade to the new version, which has a touch OLED bar and …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 51

HTC Releases Mystery Invitation

by Bob Raikes

HTC has sent invitations out for an event on January 12th at which it has been speculated to reveal new smartphones including a top of the line 6.1″ device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835CPU. …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 51