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Nintendo Switch Boosts Console Sales in the US

Nintendo Switch has been the best-selling console in the United States for five out of the seven months since its release ...

Korea is Losing to China in Large-Scale LCD Market

Citing a report from IHS Markit released earlier this week, Business Korea confirmed that China has indeed overtaken South Korea in ...

Sharp may delay its OLED production plans

Nikkei reported that the plan by Foxconn and Sharp to mass produce OLEDs by 2018 may be delayed and may now ...

And Finally – Vol 23 No 01

Late last year, Jaguar pulled what some might call ‘a stunt preying on peoples’ expectations’, and others would refer to as ...

Lenovo Result 05/02/2015

Lenovo Group recorded a third quarter net profit of $253 million, down 5% year on year from $265 million in Q3 ...

Asahi Glass Result 12/02/2015

Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. recorded a net profit for last year of ¥20.5 billion ($171.2 million) on turnover of ¥1.35 trillion ...

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Barco Validates VC-2 IP Core

by Tom Allen

Barco Silex has validated its new hardware solution IP core against the SMPTE 2042-3 reference. The core is now ready for integrated in ASIC and FPGA designs and can be used to transport UltraHD …

Tags:Barco| Chips| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 03

IHS Updates 4k Forecast, Warns on 8k

by Tom Allen

Paul Gray of IHS spoke recently at the Hollywood IT Society and Media & Entertainment Services Alliance conference in London, saying that the research firm has increased its UltraHD forecasts for Europe. IHS expects …

Tags:Europe| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 03

NEC Celebrates 10,000th Projector

by Tom Allen

NEC Display Solutions Europe is celebrating the installation of its 10,000th projector, with New Lineo cinemas in Israel. Miller & Sons installed an NC900C digital cinema projector in the chain.

Tags:Back Panel| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 23 - Issue 03

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Asus Raises BYD Orders

by Tom Allen

Asus has apparently taken on BYD, a Chinese OEM, to manufacture 1.5 million notebooks. Sources say that this represents less than 10% of Asus’ total planned notebook shipments this year. It is thought that …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| ODMs & OEMs| Supply Chain| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Microsoft Prepares for UK Hub Launch

by Tom Allen

Microsoft’s big news for education was (still) the Surface Hub (Microsoft Announces Surface Hub as a Collaborative Display Tool): a large-format collaborative display. Since being revealed last year, Microsoft has announced that the Hub …

Tags:BETT 2016| Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| TechData| Vol 23 - Issue 03

JDI CEO Mitsuru Homma

JDI to Begin OLED Mass Production

by Milos Pavlovic

Japan Display – the joint small panel venture between Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi – has announced that it will begin to mass produce OLED panels in 2018. JDI CEO Mitsuru Homma. Image: ReutersThe company …

Tags:Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Production| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Zytronic Raises Ultra-Large Capacity

by Tom Allen

UK-based touch specialist, Zytronic has invested £1 million ($1.5 million) to raise its manufacturing capacity, with a focus on ultra large format touch senses for digital signage, tablet surfaces and similar applications. A 25% …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Metal Mesh| Touch| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 03

A New Glass-Type Product Under Development: MAD Glass

by Arthur Berman

Wearable glass type devices first appeared in the market several years ago. In a common configuration, the device is a monocle that is attached to one side of the frame of user worn glasses. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 03

AR / VR Developments

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft announced their Room2Room project that ups the typical Skype call to a full blown projection experience in a room. As the successor to an earlier project called RoomAlive, it uses the Kinect system …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| VideoConferencing| Virtual Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 03

Cisco & MaxLinear In SkyQ

by Bob Raikes

It has been confirmed that the new SkyQ UltraHD STB will be based around MediaHighway middleware from Cisco and will include a MaxLinear MxL5x2 satellite receiver and EN5520 Channel Stacking IC. The receiver can …

Tags:Cisco| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sky| STBs| Vol 23 - Issue 02

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Arris Completes Pace Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

In the flood of news at CES it looks as though the news that Arris has completed its acquisition of STB maker Pace of the UK for £1.4 billion slipped by us. Arris acquired …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 23 - Issue 02