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Bentley is a very traditional brand in terms of the materials used in its cars – including wood and leather – but the brand also values technology. At the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit, the company said that the company is looking at ideas including transparent OLEDs overlaid over traditional materials to allow access … Read more
Shuttle has released a new box for digital signage and other applications and based on the Intel Apollo Lake 14nm J3355 Celeron CPU from Intel. Resolution support is up to UHD.4K and there are integrated DisplayPort and HDMI as well as an optional VGA adaptor. The box has up to 8GB of memory and supports … Read more
Comm-Tec has entered into a distribution deal with LG Electronics to distribute LG’s digital signage screens in Germany.
IHS Market reports that Sharp is to increase its production of TV panels from its older G8 Kameyama plant. As well as 45″, 55″, 80″ and 90″ UltraHD panels, the company is considering 45″ and 90″ 8K panels. The company has seen low utilisation of the fab and the new sizes are expected to boost … Read more
ABI Research said that broadcasters and service providers will be decreasing marketing on their cable, satellite, and IPTV products that offer managed quality of service in favor of new products that use over the top (OTT) technologies to compete with Amazon and Netflix. With OTT competition significantly increasing in mature pay-TV markets, ABI Research forecasts … Read more
Samsung refreshed its A3/A5/A7 range of smartphones at CES. They all have Super AMOLED displays in 4.7″ (HD), 5.2″ (FHD) and 5.5″ (FHD) and feature 3D glass with a metal frame. They use A-53 processors at 1.6GHz (A3) or 1.9GHz (A5/A7) and have 2GB (A3) or 3GB (A5/A7) of RAM. Storage is 16GB on the … Read more
Terry Gou of Foxconn said that in the light of the recent comments from the new US President, the company would consider building a display plant, through its Sharp subsidiary. The information was inadvertently disclosed by Masayoshi Son from SoftBank, after discussing it with Gou in December. Gou said that costs of land, water and … Read more
As well as TVs, LG had plenty of other products on its stand. There were not so many professional products on the booth this year, but in the middle was a ‘pillar’ made of six convex OLED displays with 77″ diagonal, used in portrait orientation. Each of the displays covers 60º to create a complete … Read more
One of the key messages themes from Samsung, and I suspect will be for the whole TV industry in 2017, was color volume over color gamut. Color volume takes into account the color performance of the TV over the full range of luminance values it can produce, while color gamut only describes the extremes of … Read more
DigiLens, a provider of diffractive waveguide technology for Augmented Reality (AR) and Head-up Displays (HUD), announced they have closed a Series B round of investment to the tune of $22M. “The round was oversubscribed and met our key objectives of securing investment from strategic partners in the market segments we are focused on, namely AR … Read more
Optoma was meeting channel partners in a suite in the Westgate to show its planned products for the home market.The company was keen to point out that the products at the event are for the US market and may, or may not, appear in Europe. We first looked at a new GT1080 Darbee which is … Read more
We met with Redux, a company that is based in the UK, in Cambridge and is working on sound and haptics. It describes its technology as ‘bringing surfaces to life’. The company was set up to exploit the ip developed by HiWave (formerly NXT) which we first reported on in October 1996 (Display Monitor Vol … Read more
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