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NTT Plala Provides UltraHD Date

NTT Plala, the Japanese telco, will begin UltraHD broadcasting on 27th October.

Squats for Subway Rides in Mexico City

To combat rising obesity levels in Mexico, officials in Mexico City are offering free tickets on the metro trains to passengers ...

First “True 8K” 120fps Dome Demo

That was the headline that enticed me to fly to Toronto and the annual Giant Screen Cinema Association International Conference and ...

Flexible Plastic E-Paper Displays Available

Flexible, glass-free electrophoretic active matrix displays fromPlastic Logic are now available from Review Display Systems. Plastic Logic manufactures. Standard sizes are ...

JCDecaux…And Sets Up in Liverpool Street

JCDecaux has taken a new London site, Motion@LiverpoolStreet, live. Four landscape-orientation LED screens measure 4.6m x 1.2m and target commuters passing ...

Apple Confirms Watch Release Date

Apple has finally provided an Apple Watch release date. Speaking during the recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said, “Development for ...

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Harvard Highlights Curved Display Health Benefits

by Tom Allen

A study by the Harvard Medical School, unveiled at SID 2016, has found that curved monitors are less liable to cause ‘Computer Vision Syndrome’ than flat models. Participants were asked to view content on …

Tags:Back Panel| Curved Displays| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

TPK Will Produce Silver Nanowire Products

by Tom Allen

TPK CEO Michael Chung has said that the company is ‘prepared’ to adopt silver nanowire touch technology as an ITO replacement. Chung expects that these solutions could become a mainstream product in as little …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Touch Controllers| TPK| Vol 23 - Issue 21

‘No 4k Games on PS4.5’ Says Source

by Tom Allen

A source speaking to Edge Magazine has said that the Playstation Neo (Rumour Claims ‘PS4.5’ Will Run Games at UHD) will be capable of running UltraHD games – but developers will not be able …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| PlayStation| sony| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 21

KN1 Microsoft Highlights Importance of Display Interaction

by Bob Raikes

The first of the main SID keynotes was given by Steven Bathiche of Microsoft who said that things had changed a lot since he attended his first SID event in 2001. He keeps coming …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Pen Input| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC24 Asahi Promotes its Brand

by Bob Raikes

Naoki Sugimoto is from Asahi Glass and he started by showing how images are likely to be seen on windscreens in the future. There can be no compromise on safety. Asahi also has chemical …

Tags:Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Automotive| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC23 3M Looks at Practical Auto Issues

by Bob Raikes

Bill Simser is from 3M where he looks after automotive displays. He started by saying that the challenge is to use displays to drive the user experience. A real target is to get the …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC22 GM Says that HUDs and Displays Have Challenges

by Bob Raikes

Thomas Seder of GM (joined by James Carpenter also of GM for questions) talked about design in cars. He said that a group called EyesOn Design selected a GM Buick Avista for a design …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC21 Auto Displays Growing Well

by Bob Raikes

The final session of the day was on Automotive displays Mark Boyadjis of IHS, a specialist in ‘automotive user experience’, started by showing a boost in the annual production of automotives themselves to around …

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

BC20 O’Brien Combines GfK & NPD Data

by Bob Raikes

Bob O’Brien was once with Corning (and was previously with LG.Philips Displays) but is now an independent consultant. O’Brien has been working on a new global brand report with GfK and NPD POS data …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| TV Set Market| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC19 Nanosys Changes QD LCD Architecture

by Bob Raikes

Jason Hartlove, CEO on Nanosys started by saying that all major TV companies are using his technology (except LG – but he’s working on this). Consumers do care about resolution, but at some point …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| ROHS| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC18 LG Wants to Display What Viewers Dream

by Bob Raikes

Daniel Lee is the Director of Market Intelligence for LG Display (LGD). He started by looking at market trends. “You Dream, We Display” and Lee said that in Back to the Future there were …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| TV Set Market| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC17 Gagnon Says There is Focus on Profits in TV

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gagnon of IHS ran the session on TV. He said that in the past of the TV industry, there was a very measured approach to new technologies and brands took time to migrate …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| TV Set Market| Vol 23 - Issue 21