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MStar and Seraphic Demo HbbTV 2 at CCBN 2017

MStar and Seraphic delivered a HbbTV 2 demo on its latest STB chipset platforms at CCBN 2017 earlier this month. The ...

PH300 Selects Optimal Angle, Says LG

LG is to launch its smallest portable projector yet this month. The Minibeam PH300 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36) measures ...

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 ...

Beginning of the End for the Color Matrix Filter?

On Tuesday December 5, Nanosys announced it is collaborating with ink-maker DIC Global to develop quantum-dot inks for ink-jet printing of ...

A New Rewriteable “Paper” Technology

A team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California (Riverside, CA) lead by Wenshou Wang is developing rewriteable paper. It ...

Foxconn to Make Phones for OnePlus3 in India

The Commercial Times in Taiwan has revealed that Foxconn Electronics will begin to manufacture OnePlus 3 in India beginning Q416.

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Apple’s 13-Year Growth Grinds to a Halt

by Tom Allen

Apple reported Q2’16 net profit of $10.5 billion, down 23% YoY from $13.6 billion. Turnover was $50.6 billion, down 13% YoY from $58 billion. The company experienced the first ever decline in iPhone sales …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| iPhone| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Chinese Glut Hurts Panel Maker Prospects

by Tom Allen

IHS has said that LCD panel makers are at risk of incurring ‘deep losses’ this year, as Chinese makers ‘aggravate already severe oversupply’. The comments were made at a display conference in Asia. The …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 23 - Issue 17

iWedia Creates UHD STB with DMT

by Tom Allen

iWedia and Digital Multimedia Technology have collaborated to produce an UltraHD IPTV/OTTT hybrid set-top box, running Android TV. It uses iWedia’s Teatro-3.5 STB software for Android TV, running on DMT’s hardware. The box itself …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Large-Format Sales Favour Premium Features in Q1

by Tom Allen

PMA has published its data for large (32″+) displays sold in the USA, for Q1’16. Sales favoured large sizes and premium features, such as UltraHD resolution. 60″+, UltraHD and interactive displays all sold well …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| PMA Research| Resolution| UltraHD| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Ford Coppola Praises LG TV

by Isaac Oburu

Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola has hailed LG OLED TV as the next frontier in cinematic home entertainment. Speaking about watching Apocalypse Now on the TV, Ford Coppola said, “[I]t was so lifelike that …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Vol 23 - Issue 16

SiliconCore’s New Front Access Panel

by Chris Chinnock

SiliconCore had a 4K LED video wall on display at NAB made from cabinets with an LED pitch of 0.95mm. This was placed next to a display of the same size (165”) composed of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| SiliconCore| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Of 3D (and VR) Headaches

by Len Scrogan

I have to confess: something scared me. It scared me a lot. The source of my fear could be found in a recent Display Daily entitled “The Relationship Between 3D Cinema and Headaches.” Certainly, …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| 3D Cinema| Human Visual System (HVS)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Highlights of NAB

by Chris Chinnock

I recently attended the Future of Cinema Conference and NAB to learn more about UHD, HDR, WCG, VR and more. And did I get an eye and ear full…. One of the highlights was …

Tags:ATSC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Light Field Cameras| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16

NAB Provides an Eye-full (and an ear full)…

by Chris Chinnock

I recently attended the Future of Cinema Conference and NAB to learn more about UHD, HDR, WCG, VR and more. And did I get an eye and ear full…. One of the highlights was …

Tags:ATSC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 16

VR @ SXSWedu: The BAD News about VR in Education

by Len Scrogan

At the recent SXSWedu conference, over 6,000 international attendees, exhibitors, thought leaders, and other innovators in the education space gathered in Austin to get a glimpse of the future of innovation in schooling. In …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 17

UHD Forum Issues Important HDR Guidelines at NAB

by Chris Chinnock

The Ultra HD Forum used NAB 2016 to release the first phase of industry guidelines on end-to-end workflows for creating and delivering live and pre-recorded UHD content. This first release of the guidelines lets …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NAB 2016| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 23 - Issue 16