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HP Inc. Ushers in New Era of Innovation, Empowers Everyone, Everywhere to Keep Reinventing

Today, HP Inc. (HPQ) celebrated its global launch as a new, publicly listed Fortune 100 corporation. A global leader in printing ...

Russian Law Affects Netflix Expansion

Russia’s State Duma has approved a law on audiovisual Internet services that could have a bearing on Netflix’s expansion in the ...

Samsung Corrects Weak Colour Vision With OLED

At IMID 2014, Samsung Display (SDC) introduced a 14″ OLED panel (rumoured recently, in Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41). Sources ...

CHG to Expand Digital Signage and ESL Leasing

CHG-Meridian of Weingarten, Germany put out a press release saying that it plans to offer lease financing for ESLs and LFDs ...

China Mobile Loses 4G Subscribers

China Mobile Communications increased its 4G customers by 6,395 million to total 560 million in February, but overall there was a ...

Pebble Has Sold 250,000 Smartwatches So Far

Smartwatch – Pebble was one of the first smartwatch devices from a start-up company that got into the wearable business early ...

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Dimensional Touch Responds to Pressure

by Phillip Wright

Yesterday, I highlighted the technology that Apple has introduced to add an element of pressure sensitivity to the touch input sensor of its iPhones. Of course, that has encouraged others to go in this …

Tags:Smartphones| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Apple Moves Touch On with Pressure

by Phillip Wright

With the introduction of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple has provided users with a force sensing touch user interface enabling new input modalities that also incorporate haptic feedback. I recently briefly assessed …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Smartphones| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 14

University Prints OLEDs on Paper

by Tom Allen

Research at the University of Sheffield in the UK has led to the possibility of new ways to display information on product packaging. Working with Cambridge-based Novalia, the University describes packaging with printed electronics …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Printable Display| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 14

ICDM Launches File Formats Workgroup

by Tom Allen

The International Committee for Display Metrology has announced a new workgroup, for file format management and standardisation. Based in OpenEXR, Workgroup 4 aims to develop a file format standardisation effort for displays and related …

Tags:Formats| ICDM| Large Display Monitor| Measurement| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Ofcom

UK Picture Quality Complaints Fall to 0

by Tom Allen

UK regulator Ofcom has said that complaints about picture quality on public broadcasters’ channels have faded to almost nothing – in fact, there have been no complaints in the last three years. Ofcom is …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Visual Quality| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Corning Seeks Lighting Designer

by Tom Allen

Corning and OLEDWorks have launched a contest, seeking ways to integrate OLEDWorks’ lighting panels into functional luminaires. Each of the five winners will be awarded up to $10,000 each. More information at http://tinyurl.com/jb26n7p.

Tags:Back Panel| Corning| Large Display Monitor| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Molecular Glasses Has Bold OLED Claims

by Tom Allen

US OLED material developer, Molecular Glasses, has said that its phosphorescent host material has been shown to raise OLED lifetime by up to 1,500%. The material has an external quantum efficiency of 20%, and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Power Consumption| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Netflix Pushes Dolby Vision

by Tom Allen

We heard about Netflix’s HDR plans earlier this year (Netflix has HDR Plans), and the company has now fulfilled them. Marco Polo is the first series available in the HDR (Dolby Vision) format; Marcel’s …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Netflix| Streaming Video| Vol 23 - Issue 14

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 14

by Tom Allen

Hisense has revealed two new UltraHD TVs for the German market, just before the European Championship football tournament. Both the 65″ M5500 and 433″ M3000 support DVB-T2 and HEVC decoding. They use Hisense’s Vidaa …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| Curved Displays| Display Mounts| Germany| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Samsung| sony| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 14

BenQ’s MW883UST is Education Solution

by Tom Allen

BenQ’s MW883UST projector is an interactive UST model for education, first shown at BETT this year and now launched in Europe. The projector uses a DLP chip, and can throw a 78″ image from …

Tags:BenQ| DLP Projectors| Education| Interactive Tables| Large Display Monitor| UST Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Taiwanese Panel Makers Slip in Annual Comparison

by Tom Allen

AUO shipped 9.6 million large panels and 14.8 million small panels in March, with sales rising 35% and 26.6% MoM, respectively. In the first quarter, these figures were 24.4 million large (down 11.5% QoQ …

Tags:AUO| CPT| Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 14

asus

Asus Up in March

by Tom Allen

Asus’s revenues rose 37.2% MoM and 15.33% YoY in March, totalling NT$48.6 billion ($1.5 billion). Calendar Q1 consolidated revenues reached NT$119.3 billion ($3.7 billion), down 10.1% QoQ but up 6.6% YoY. Asus shipped 4.9 …

Tags:Asus| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 14