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Kopin Enters Into Strategic Relationship With Goertek Inc.

January 5, 2017 by Isaac Oburu

Kopin Corporation, a leading developer of innovative wearable computing technologies and solutions, today announced it had entered into a strategic relationship with Goertek Inc. (“Goertek”), a leading innovative global technology company headquartered in Weifang China that provides vertically integrated total solutions and services to globally-renowned companies such as Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Huawei and Xiaomi to … Read more

Eutelsat Boosts Ultra HD Content

January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

Satellite operator, Eutelsat Communications, has said that it has launched two new UltraHD channels on its Hotbird platform. The channels are Fashion TV’s FTV UHD and Travelxp 5K. Both have multi-year agreements for EMEA. The channels will use HEVC compression with 10 bits of colour (Rec 2020) and 50fps. HDR will be supported through HLG … Read more

SDP Heading for IPO?

December 21, 2022January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

The Nikkei has reported that Foxconn and its Sharp subsidiary may be considering an IPO for the Sakai Display Products business. The comments follow the news about a new investment in China (New SDP $8.8 billion LCD Plant Confirmed)/ After the news report, Sharp’s share price rose 11%. Separately, the Nikkei Asian Review reported that … Read more

Samsung Plans 10 Million Galaxy S8s

January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

The ET News in Korea reports that Samsung is expected to make 10 million of its new S8s (tentative name) smartphones which are expected to be launched at MWC in February in the first two months. The volume is the same as initially produced for the S7, so the company does not expect any significant … Read more

Delta Wins LED in Columbus

January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

Delta Displays said that it has installed two 3mm pitch LED displays that are 13.44m x 4.32m in size, giving a resolution of 4480 x 1440 for flight information in the John Glenn Columbus Airport, Columbus, Ohio (said to be the US’s fifteenth largest city). The airport sees more than seven million passengers a year. … Read more

Worldwide Device Shipments Flat Until 2018

January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

Gartner has said that worldwide combined shipments of PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones are projected to remain flat in 2017, with very slight growth in 2018 and 2019. Mobile phones and ultramobiles will see some small growth. There were nearly 7 billion phones, tablets and PCs in use in the world by the end … Read more

TV Panel Area up 8% in 2016

January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell of China released data on LCD TV panels in 2016 and the data was reported by Digitimes. The report identifies total sales of 258 million panels for TV with a total area of 130 million m², up 8% because average panel sizes have increased by 2.1%. 32″ panels were the biggest segment at 30%, … Read more

A-I-Os to Drop 4.8% in 2016

January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research said that it believes that shipments of all-in-one PCs dropped 4.8% year on year in 2016 to around 12 million units. The company expects no growth this year. As the drop in sales was lower than that seen for other PCs, the share of the overall market going to that form factor has … Read more

Rohde & Schwarz Can Test HLG over HDMI

January 5, 2017 by Bob Raikes

Rohde & Schwarz has a new module for its R&S VTC/VTE/VTS video tester family that can support testing of HDR and HDMI including HLG and it can support data rates up to 18Gbps. It can also support HDCP 1.4 and 2.2. The generator function can be used to edit the Dynamic Range and Mastering InfoFrame … Read more

Continental Ramps Up Manufacturing Capacity for HUDs

January 5, 2017 by Norbert Hildebrand

The Automotive HUD market is in every way a growing market, however real sales numbers are difficult to come by, as most car makers still sell the HUD as an up sell feature and do not release how many percent of their customers actually opt for this add-on. Most market research data are estimates by … Read more

Quantum Materials Corp Shows Heavy Metal Free QD at CES 2017

January 5, 2017 by Norbert Hildebrand

After we recently reported on the reshuffling of the boardroom at Quantum Materials Corp., we now hear that they will be showing off their heavy metal free quantum dot solution to interested display manufacturers at CES 2017. According to their press announcement, QMC will be showing their low cost and heavy metal free quantum dot … Read more

BBC Fills in Background on HLG Adoption

January 4, 2017 by Bob Raikes

We spotted a nice article in the December SMPTE Newswatch email that reports on an interview with Tim Borer of the BBC about the HLG HRD specification and its development. Borer also goes on to talk about the different priorities of cinema and broadcast, but he also goes on to discuss how the industries are … Read more