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Samsung sells off its LCD business

So Samsung has decided to spin-off its LCD business into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and to orient its business ...

Planar QE Series Supports UltraHD

Planar has announced the QE series of UltraHD displays in 75″, 86″ and 98″ sizes. The series includes an embedded signage ...

Canal+ Climbs in International Markets

Canal+ Group had 15.4 million subscribers in the first nine months of 2015, an increase of 619,000 compared to the same ...

Ericsson Prefers HDR to UltraHD for “More Bang per Bit”

We met up with Matthew Goldman, the Senior VP Technology at Ericsson and had a good chat about HDR and the ...

Jacobs Considers OLEDs in IT

At the OLED World Summit, John Jacobs (once of Apple and also DisplaySearch) of Intel talked about the impact of OLED ...

Scala Delivers Media Player Hardware to Digital Signage Market

Scala, Inc., part of the STRATACACHE family of digital media/ad tech solutions companies, unveiled the addition of Scala Media Player hardware ...

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JCB Values DPI’s Colour Reproduction

by Tom Allen

Antycip Simulation chose to install Digital Projection’s HIGHLite Laser projectors in JCB’s new Uptime Centre control room. The facility is located at JCB’s headquarters in Rochester (UK), and runs 12 hours every day, collecting …

Tags:Back Panel| Control Rooms| Digital Projection Inc (DPI)| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 21

PQC LED hybridised with QD colour converters

Hybrid QD-LED Raises Efficiency

by Milos Pavlovic

(a) Schematic representation, (b) cross-sectional, and (c) top SEM images of a photonic quasi-crystal LED hybridised with QD colour convertersA An international research group has used quantum dots to create a hybrid LED. QDs …

Tags:Colour Filters| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 21

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 21

by Tom Allen

The 6000 series of TVs that Philips will launch this year (Ambilux Coming to Philips This Year) will use the Google Cast protocol. 43″, 49″, 55″ and 65″ sizes will be available. Unusually, the …

Tags:Google| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Philips| Pricing| sharp| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Aixtron Accepts Chinese Offer

by Tom Allen

China’s Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund (FGC) has offered to buy Germany’s Aixtron, for €670 million. The deal is being handled through FGC subsidiary Grand Chip Investment (GCI). Aixtron has accepted the offer, subject …

Tags:China| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Atmos Boosts ZTE Audio

by Tom Allen

ZTE’s new smartphone, the Axon 7, will be a premium model with a focus on audio quality – although the display will still be a high-end AMOLED device. The Axon 7 is a 5.5″ …

Tags:audio| Dolby Atmos| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 21| ZTE

Sky Records 1 Million On-Demand Customers

by Tom Allen

Sky has announced that more than 1 million customers in Germany and Austria have connected their Sky+ receivers to the internet, six months after the Sky On Demand service was launched.

Tags:Austria| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Sky| TV Viewing| Vol 23 - Issue 21

ARM Designs for AR and VR

by Tom Allen

ARM has announced a new CPU and GPU for flagship mobile devices, which will be available in 2017. The Cortex-A73 CPU and Mali-G71 GPU are designed to support VR and AR applications. The new …

Tags:Arm| Chips| CPUs| GPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Mediatek Expects to Hit Forecast High End

by Tom Allen

Mediatek has stuck to its current forecast of a 10% YoY revenue increase this year. Speaking at a media briefing, COO Jeffrey Ju said that the company expects revenues of about NT$71 billion ($2.2 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Asus is Firmly in Phablets

by Tom Allen

Asus used its press conference to introduce several new products, including a robot called ‘Zenbo’. Set to be launched at the end of September for $600, the robot is a home service unit that …

Tags:21:9| Asus| Computex 2016| Convertible PCs| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 21

IC12 Microsoft Summarises AR & VR Developments

by Bob Raikes

The final talk was by Dr Bernard Kress from the Microsoft Hololens Team. He gave a very, very ‘high bandwidth’ overview of what is happening in VR and AR. There were 175 slides! Before …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Eyewear| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| SmartGlasses| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Wearables

IC11 Kopin Adds Battery & Voice Technology to Displays

by Bob Raikes

Dr Hong Choi is CTO of Kopin which is concentrating on AR and VR markets. The company has developed a lot of technology and has 300 patents. It has $90 million in cash and …

Tags:AR Glasses| Augmented Reality| Batteries| Kopin| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Voice Input| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Display Week 2016 and Human – Display Evolution

by Steve Sechrist

At a standing-room only crowd of 500+ Display Week attendees, Intel’s display guru Achin Bhowmik stunned the crowd of mostly mechanical and electrical engineers, product managers and physicists, by asking them what significant event …

Tags:display technology| Eyewear| Gaze Recognition| Head Up Displays HUDs| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21