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Microsoft Pen Certification Awarded to Consumer Market Laptop Computer with UniPixel Touchscreen Sensors

UniPixel, Inc., a provider of Performance Engineered Films™ to the touchscreen and flexible electronics markets, today announced a consumer market laptop device with a UniPixel touchscreen sensor was awarded Microsoft Pen Digitizer Certification ensuring that the application and device are compatible with Windows and will run reliably on the Windows 10 operating system and Windows … Read more

2016 a Banner Year for 4K UHD TV: Display Sales to Grow 40 Percent as 4K Ecosystem Continues to Expand, Says CTA

Holiday (Q4) shipments of 4K Ultra High-Definition (4K UHD) televisions in the United States are expected to reach 4.5 million units, driving total 4K UHD sales for 2016 to 10 million units, a healthy 40 percent increase over 2015, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™ announced today. Sales of 4K UHD TVs continue to increase as … Read more

European PD Market is Flat in Q3

The Q3 market for public displays in Europe was basically flat from Q2, in line with typical seasonality but slightly better than expected as Germany saw a good quarter according to Meko’s DisplayCast service. Volume growth was 15.5% year on year. NEC had a good quarter, while Samsung, although very dominant, was a little weaker … Read more

Linear TV Still Popular in France

French research consultancy NPA Conseil has published a study entitled “Les Français et leur télévision” (The French and their television). When asked about their viewing habits, 56.6% said that they still watch mainly live programmes, while the rest said that they were watching less and less live, with 35.1% instead watching recorded or catch-up TV … Read more

Samsung to Make Fingerprint Recognition Chips

ETNews of Korea reports that Samsung may be about to enter the market for fingerprint recognition chips, currently dominated, it said, by Synaptics and FPC of Sweden, who are rated to have more than 90% of the market with 40% and 50% share. The paper said that Samsung would use algorithms from Precise Biometrics in … Read more

Has Apple Committed $4 billion for OLEDs?

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Apple Insider flagged up a report from JP Morgan that suggests that Apple’s financial filings suggest that it has placed a purchase order (an “off-balance sheet obligation”) for around $4 billion and the analyst suggests that this is a long term deal to buy OLEDs, probably from Samsung. Analyst Comment It wouldn’t be surprising if … Read more

Guttag Looks at the Magic Leap Display

Sometime Display Daily writer, Karl Guttag (VR and AR Head Mounted Displays – Sorry, but there is no Santa Claus), has published a number of interesting blog posts that take a very detailed look at the performance and patents of the Magic Leap display. After performing very detailed analysis of the videos that have been … Read more

LG OLED TVs in 55″ – 77″ – Wallpaper Version?

An apparent leak from the Wi-Fi Alliance has revealed that LG will have OLED TVs from 55″ to 77″ again in 2017. Intriguingly, there is a model W7 – and it is being speculated that this will be a ‘wallpaper’ TV based on the super thin samples previously shown at trade shows. Analyst Comment We … Read more