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Entropic Leaves STB SoC Development

Entropic has announced that it will no longer produce SoC devices for use in set-top boxes. The company will continue to ...

Half a Billion New Connected TVs in Five Years

The number of connected TVs worldwide will reach 876 million by 2020 – up from 105 million in 2010 and 415 ...

Samsung Launches New VR Platform Featuring Premium Content and Experiences

At Unpacked 2017, Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its new VR content service in UK, SamsungVR.com and Samsung VR application. ...

Digilens Creates Polymer Optics (DS11)

Jonathan Waldern is CEO of Digilens which has a new kind of material for waveguide optics. He started by asking “who ...

Panel Price Hike for Small Vendors

IHS has released its PriceWise data, which contains an analysis of LCD panel prices in March and April. Notebooks PC brands ...

Microsoft Issues Warning to Legacy Windows Users

New silicon generations will only be supported on the latest version of Windows, Microsoft has warned. In a blog post (http://tinyurl.com/zhdwcer), ...

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Quantum Dots OverHyped? Check at DisplayWeek

by Bob Raikes

We will shortly have a great Display Daily article from Barry Young of the OLED Association on what he sees as the hype for quantum dots at SID. However, if you are still at …

Tags:OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016

Ericsson chosen by KT SkyLife for UHDTV expansion

by Tom Allen

South Korean satellite pay-TV provider KT SkyLife has chosen to use Ericsson technology in its UltraHD service. Ericsson’s HEVC encoders will be used in KT SkyLife’s fifth UltraHD channel.

Tags:4k| Broadcast| Ericsson| HEVC (H.265)| Korea| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Satellite| Video Encoders & Decoders| Vol 23 - Issue 20

A New Look for Merck/EMD

by Ken Werner

Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany and its North American branch, EMD Performance Materials, showed off their new logos and design language at SID Display Week for the first time. The look, startlingly, is more “Age …

Tags:Cholesteric| Flexible Displays| Merck| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Microsoft Prepares for 4k Gaming and ‘Xbox TV’

by Tom Allen

According to Kotaku, Microsoft plans to launch a ‘cheaper, smaller Xbox One’ at this year’s E3 gaming show, and a more powerful model in 2017. Sources say that the 2017 console, code-named Scorpio, will …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 20| xBox

Matrox Demonstrates High-Res Transport at InfoComm

by Tom Allen

Matrox has announced that it will show a high-resolution AV-over-IP ecosystem at InfoComm 2016. The company will use its Maevex 2 PCIe cards to stream up to 30 sources, at resolutions from 1280 x …

Tags:Back Panel| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Matrox| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD| Video over IP (VIP)| Video Walls| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Portrait Displays Controls Colour With Haier

by Tom Allen

A new AIO PC line from Haier, called Right Key, uses technology from Portrait Displays. The PCs are designed for creative types and feature ‘Real Colour’ colour space selection, with four modes: Work (sRGB …

Tags:Back Panel| Colour Management & Processing| Haier| Large Display Monitor| Portrait Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Tru-Vu Beats Sunlight

by Tom Allen

US-based industrial monitor supplier Tru-Vu has produced a sunlight-readable display, with a brightness over 1,000 cd/m² and NEMA 4x certification. As well as the stainless steel enclosure being NEMA-rated, the 21.5″ SRMW-21.5R-SS features Tru-Vu’s …

Tags:Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Sunlight Readable Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 20

The Future of Shopping is Here – in Australia that is

by Norbert Hildebrand

In an article by the Australian Financial Review, Paul Smith reports that eBay Australia / New Zealand and Myer, a regional department store, have partnered to create the first virtual reality store in the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Hyper-Reality – A Glimpse into AR Dystopia

by Norbert Hildebrand

Currently, augmented reality and virtual reality are considered the ‘Next Big Thing’. As such the viewpoint of most analysts is very positive, to say the least. The most critically discussed issue is that of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 20

All 4 Original Content

by Tom Allen

4oD was Channel 4’s catch-up service until last March, when it was rebranded to ‘All 4’. Keith Underwood, director of strategy and technology at the broadcaster, discussed the decision, and what it meant. Channel …

Tags:Broadcast| Channels| DTG Summit 2016| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 20