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High Cost of WOLED TV Panels Detailed in DSCC TV Cost Report

The battle between OLED and LCD rages on in the premium TV space and ultimately, the winners will be companies that can manage to get the highest prices and the lowest costs possible, according to DSCC. The company’s latest Quarterly Advanced TV Cost Report describes in detail the cost battle in the premium TV market, … Read more

DSCC Smartphone Display Cost Report Highlights Profitable Rigid OLED Business

DSCC has released its OLED Smartphone Cost Report for the second quarter of 2018, highlighting a number of issues in the market. The report illuminates the huge impact of fab utilisation on fixed costs per panel and the substantially lower cost of rigid OLED panels compared to their flexible counterparts. Rigid OLED panels, competing in … Read more

AUO Benefits from Value Added Strategy

AUO presented its quarterly result and highlighted that its better result than ‘a Korean competitor’ (i.e. LG Display) was the result of its long term development of a more niche strategy, rather than chasing volume and share. AUO increased its niche and high end product shipments to limit its exposure to the price war in … Read more

Panasonic and Optoma Projectors Used at Istanbul Youth Festival

At this year’s Istanbul Youth Festival in Turkey, EvenTech used almost 70 video projectors to create a dome projection light show. Three domes of varying diameters were built on the site, equipped with Panasonic and Optoma projection systems, media players from Wings Vioso and fisheye cameras for calibrations. Image: EvenTech The 20m dome was equipped … Read more

Laser Light Show Projected onto the Surface of London’s Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall in London, UK was recently transformed into a gigantic projection surface for a laser light show, as part of the annual BBC Proms event, a series of classical music concerts that take place each day over the course of eight weeks. 59 Productions, the creative agency behind the light show, took … Read more

Samsung Display’s ‘Unbreakable Panel’ Certified by Underwriters Laboratories

Samsung Display announced earlier that its recently-developed, unbreakable smartphone panel has just been certified by UL (Underwriters Laboratories), an official testing company for OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor. Samsung Display said that in addition to being used on smartphones, the newly developed display is expected to find … Read more

Samsung Display’s “Unbreakable Panel” Certified by Underwriters Laboratories

Samsung Display has announced that its recently developed “unbreakable” smartphone panel has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), an official testing company for OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the US Department of Labour. The company says that, in addition to being used on smartphones, the newly developed display is expected to find … Read more

IDC: EMEA Records Its Strongest Traditional PC Market Growth Since 2014

The EMEA traditional PC market posted solid growth in the second quarter of 2018, with the market going positive (4.1% growth year-on-year) and totalling 16.6 million units. According to IDC, the commercial space grew 8.6% year-on-year as anticipated device renewals continued to roll out, while the consumer space posted a softer decline (0.8% year-on-year) as … Read more

EMEA Records its Strongest Growth Since 2014 as Market Shows Signs of Resurgence, Says IDC

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) posted solid growth in the second quarter of 2018, with the market going positive (4.1% YoY) and totaling 16.6 million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The commercial space grew 8.6% YoY as the anticipated device renewals continued to roll … Read more

“Inhancing” Virtual Reality

Virtual reality manifested an extremely lean floor presence in the two main expo halls at InfoComm 2018, much to my surprise. One of the brightest VR stars shining, however, was the Inhance Digital booth, a company serving up custom-developed VR. According to Maziar Farzam, the president of LA-based Inhance Digital, the company “can help an … Read more