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Video Clarity Compares 8k Video

Video Clarity has announced a video quality analysis system for 8k video, as well as an uncompressed SD-to-8k recorder and player. ...

What I Learned About TV in the Last Two Weeks

TV – Over the last two weeks several conferences and exhibitions in New York were dedicated to the TV industry in the ...

Fujitsu Wants “More Focused” Distribution

Fujitsu’s new UK sales director has said that the company needs to be “more focused” with its distribution strategy. Kevin Matthews ...

Samsung Brings IoT to Smart TV

Samsung has announced that its entire lineup of 2016 SUHD TVs will be ‘IoT-ready’, and connected with its SmartThings platform. SmartThings, ...

Visteon Introduces AR Driving

Visteon has launched its latest HUD which has a field of view of 10º x 4º, said to be twice the ...

EC Gives Dell the Go-Ahead

The European Commission has approved Dell’s proposed acquisition of data storage firm EMC (Dell Pays $67 Billion for EMC), under the ...

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IHS Says Smart Watches to Dominate Wearables

by Steve Sechrist

Placing a bet on wearables? Look no further than the smartwatch category, which will dominate the display revenue space going forward, according to the latest IHS data presented at Display Week 2016 business conference. …

Tags:Emerging Markets| Flexible Displays| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Wearable Market

JDI Impresses with Low Power and High Resolution

by Bob Raikes

For many years, one of the consistent highlights of SID has been to visit Toshiba’s panel business, which then became TM Displays and, eventually, JDI. As usual, there was lots and lots to see …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Memory LCD| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Reflective Display| SID Display Week 2016| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Quantum Dots Get Hot

by Ken Werner

At Display Week quantum-dot makers had more significant announcements and introductions than many of us expected. Its not that QDs had become boring before Display Week. After all, television market penetration was 25% heading …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

IHS Forecasts Wearables in the Healthcare Market

by Steve Sechrist

One session at the IHS Wearables – Flex conference during Display Week focused on healthcare as a driver in the wearables market, particularly as it affects the display industry. IHS Principle Analyst Shane Walker …

Tags:Healthcare| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Wearable Market

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3DIcon Changes Focus – Merges with Coretec Industries

by Chris Chinnock

3DIcon Corporation, a developer of 3D volumetric display technologies that are designed to produce 360-degree volumetric high-resolution images, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to merge with Coretec Industries LLC, a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 22| Volumetric Displays

Augmented Reality Glasses for Firefighters

by Norbert Hildebrand

It seems pretty straight forward that the augmented reality solutions are most beneficial in applications where visual content adds to the task at hand. In this case the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Security| Vol 23 - Issue 22

3D Developments

by Chris Chinnock

At SID DisplayWeek in San Francisco, there were several demonstrations of 3D technology on the show floor, which we summarize below. We did not review any papers, however. SeeFront is a German company developing …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

AR/VR/HUD News

by Chris Chinnock

We did not review the many papers on AR/VR at SID, so below is a summary of what was being shown on the exhibit floor. BOE showed a prototype panel that was 2.8” in …

Tags:Augmented Reality| eMagin| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Projection Advancements

by Chris Chinnock

Below is a summary of some of the projection-related news we saw on the exhibit floor at SID. Moxtek has supplied their Wire Grid Polarizer (WGP) for projection applications for a long time. This …

Tags:Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Embedded Pico Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Projection| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Augmented Reality Glasses with Eye Tracking Showcased at AWE 2016

by Isaac Oburu

NEP Visions, one of the world’s most distinguished outside broadcast service providers, chose a Leader LV5940 4K multi-format waveform monitor as the master reference instrument during the recent UHD capture of Martin McDonagh’s play, …

Tags:Broadcast| VOD in UltraHD & 4K

Augmented Reality Glasses with Eye Tracking Showcased at AWE 2016

by Isaac Oburu

Eye tracking pioneers SensoMotoric Instruments and leaders in augmented reality near-to-eye displays Lumushave joined forces to create an AR experience like no other. The Lumus DK-50 AR glasses have been fitted with eye tracking …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality

Fraunhofer’s Etches Glass to Combat Reflectance

by Tom Allen

Fraunhofer FEP will present the results of its findings on the subject of anti-reflective coatings at ICCG 2016 (Braunschweig, Germany, June 13th-16th). Researchers at the organisation have tested a new way to create these …

Tags:Fraunhofer| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 21