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Samsung Supplying Largest Ever Smartphone Display to Huawei

by Andrew Fenn

According to The Bell, Samsung Display will supply a 6.9″ OLED display for a forthcoming smartphone from Huawei, as reported by The Investor. Panel shipments are expected to commence during the third quarter of …

Mediaset Focusing on Free-to-Air and On-Demand

by Andrew Fenn

The CEO and VP of Italy’s Mediaset, Pier Silvio Berlusconi (son of the former Italian President and Trump-inspirer, Silvio Berlusconi), has gone on record to predict that the future of television lies in FTA …

Tags:Italy| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Goldmedia: German VOD Revenues Growing Faster Than Ever

by Andrew Fenn

Video-on-Demand (VoD) is turning into a mass market in Germany, according to Goldmedia. At the end of 2017, 18% of all German households were subscribing to at least one paid-for VoD service. The market …

IC05 Amorphyx Can Replace TFTs with Quantum Tunnelling

by Bob Raikes

Amorphyx is a new company that is working on new technology for backplanes and the CEO is John Brewer who started by saying that TFTs have very bad performance and the industry needs to …

IC04 Ares Solves a Problem for Flexible Displays

by Bob Raikes

Dr David Arreaga is founder of Ares Materials from Texas which makes films for flexible displays. The films are based on polysulphide which have not been used so far in the flat panel display …

IC03 OTI Reveals the ‘Dirty little Secret’ of OLEDs for IT

by Bob Raikes

OTI Lumionics was next up and the speaker was Michael Helander who is the founder and CEO. The company focuses on the electrode materials to help with manufacturing, which is an under-served market. The …

IC02 Clearink Ramping Things Up

by Bob Raikes

Frank Christiaens is from ClearInk Displays and we have been writing about the company for two years since the company came out of stealth mode in 2016, although it has been around since 2012. …

IC01 Start Up Teams ‘Should not be Toxic’

by Bob Raikes

We joined the Investor Conference, run like the Business Conference by DSCC, for a panel discussion, but the early part of the event was a presentation by Bob O’Brien of DSCC who tallked about …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Freeview to receive £125m investment to go ‘fully hybrid’

by Andrew Fenn

The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and network operator Arqiva — the four shareholders of Digital UK — have signed a new five-year agreement to accelerate Freeview’s transition to a fully hybrid platform, providing free-to-view …

Report: Hisense’s Debut OLED TV will Use LG Panels

by Andrew Fenn

According to The Investor, anonymous industry sources recently informed the publication that LG Display is supplying OLED panels to Hisense, a TV maker in China that is rumoured to be launching its first OLED …

Tags:Hisense| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Samsung Galaxy A8 Star to Launch Globally Later this Month

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung has revealed its new Galaxy A8 Star smartphone, due for worldwide release later this month. The dual-sim smartphone features a 6.3″ Super AMOLED display with a 1080 x 2220 resolution, an 80.6% screen-to-body …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 23

DSCC Expects Samsung OLED Revenues to Recover

by Bob Raikes

DSCC said in a blog post that it expects Samsung Displays’ fab utilization rate will continue to improve as it builds up volumes to meet the demands for flexible OLEDs for Apple, Samsung and …