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SKC Breaks Ground on a Clear PI Factory

by Andrew Fenn

South Korean chemical manufacturer, SKC Kolon, has revealed that it will build a facility for the production of transparent polyimide film for foldable display applications. The new line will be incorporated in to one …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Royole Quasi-G6 Mass Production Campus Begins Producing Fully Flexible Displays

by Andrew Fenn

Royole Corporation — a manufacturer of human-machine interface technologies and products such as flexible displays, flexible sensors and smart devices — has announced that its 102,200m² ‘quasi-6G’ campus in Shenzhen, China is up and …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Samsung Galaxy S10 to Feature Fingerprint-on-Display Authentication?

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung’s next flagship smartphone — tentatively called the “Galaxy S10” and codenamed “Beyond — will do away with iris recognition, previously seen in the S8 and S9, in favour of a fingerprint-on-display (FOD) authentication …

Tags:Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 25

LG to Launch OLED Material and Component Facility in China?

by Andrew Fenn

According to OLED Net, industry sources have revealed that LG is considering launching an OLED material technology centre in Chengdu, China, following in the footsteps of Merck, which announced its OLED Technology Centre in …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Vol 25 - Issue 25

ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery Draft in More Broadcasters for “German Hulu”

by Andrew Fenn

The duo of companies behind 7TV — ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery — have invited German broadcasters, RTL, ARD and ZDF to join an upcoming collaborative streaming platform. The joint platform will offer 7TV in its …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Korean Reports of Samsung Blue OLED/QD Pilot Line

by Milos Pavlovic

A widely reported article from ETNews has reported that Samsung is building a pilot G8 production line for QDOLED displays, that is to say, displays that generate blue light that is converted to red …

iTunes Begins to Roll Out Dolby Atmos Movies on tvOS 12 Beta

by Andrew Fenn

A small subset of movies with Dolby Atmos support are beginning to roll out on the iTunes store for Apple TV 4K users running tvOS 12 beta 2. Apple announced the upgrade earlier this …

Tags:Apple| Dolby Atmos| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 25

RBL Media Will Take Over Leipzig DOOH From Next Year

by Andrew Fenn

From the summer of 2019, RBL Media will take charge of digitising Leipzig, Germany, installing a range of digital street furniture and energy-efficient passenger shelters over a 15-year period, according to Invidis. JCDecaux is …

Taiwan Notebook ODMs Look to Customers to Help With Component Costs

by Andrew Fenn

Compal president Ray Chen has revealed that Taiwan notebook ODMs are starting to lean on downstream customers to absorb a proportion of the increased cost of passive components currently hamstringing the industry, as reported …

CPT’s LCD Panel Lines Currently Operating At Full Capacity

by Andrew Fenn

According to its president Lin Sheng-chang, Chunghwa Picture Tubes’ (CPT) LCD panel manufacturing lines are currently operating at full production capacity, after winning full-screen panel orders from the four largest smartphone vendors in China, …

Tags:CPT| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 25

Samsung To Double Down on LED

by Bob Raikes

Samsung had an area on its booth that was showing future products. We spotted a number of competitors that had got onto the booth by borrowing badges from other companies! The amount of information …

Aoto Moves MiniLED to Generation 2 for HDR

by Bob Raikes

Just as Unilumin uses the ROE brand for its rental business, Aoto has acquired GTek and that means that AOTO can focus on fixed installation projects. Aoto showed us its ‘2nd generation’ miniLED displays …