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Cambrios has appointed Ryosuke Kuwada to a newly-created position: executive adviser to the CEO. Kuwada will focus on the firm’s business development efforts in Asia. Kuwada has worked in technology sales and marketing for more than 30 years. He has previously worked in Toppan Printing, E Ink, DuPont and Innova Dynamics, in both the USA … Read more
Universal Display Corp. has acquired the OLED IP assets of BASF SE. These include more than 500 issued and pending patents worldwide, in 86 patent families. The purchase price is approximately €87 million. The deal was executed through UDC Ireland Ltd. BASF’s OLED portfolio largely consists of phosphorescent materials and technologies, much like UDC’s UniveralPHOLED. … Read more
We heard at CineEurope that Barco had partnered with Reel Cinemas in Dubai. What was not announced at the time was that one of the auditoriums will be using the Barco Escape solution, which puts projections screens on three walls to surround the audience. The installation will be completed in time for the July launch … Read more
Eizo’s S1934 is an ‘almost-square’ 5:4 19″ monitor, for offices and control rooms requiring this more traditional format. Billed as the successor to the S1933, the monitor is in fact almost identical to this older model; the only major difference being the addition of a DisplayPort input. A low blue light mode, known as ‘Paper’, … Read more
Acer Inc. and Starbreeze AB announced today that their respective Board of Directors have approved the establishment of a joint venture for design, manufacturing, promotion, marketing and sales of the StarVR Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Display (HMD) as previously announced May 15th, 2016 upon signing the letter of intent. The new company is provisionally named … Read more
IHS stats, released by Cable Europe at the Cable Congress in Warsaw, has shown than cable revenue in Europe was up 7.1% YoY in 2015. All services grew, with TV up 5.5% and remaining the top profit driver for the industry. Television represented 50% of the €22.9 billion revenue made by cable. Strong demand for … Read more
UK-based BVM Limited is now offering a 15.6″ panel PC family, sealed to meet the IP64 standard. Designed for machine control on factory floors, the AFL3 range can be panel-, wall-, rack-, stand- or arm-mounted. The units feature either five-wire resistive or procap (for multitouch) touch. They are differentiated by their processors; each uses the … Read more
Apantac’s UltraHD conversion technology is being used by the Euro International Broadcast Centre in Paris, during the UEFA football tournament. The IBC receives uncompressed UHD feeds, via fibre, from the main venues. It was a challenge to view these 4:2:2 feeds on UHD monitors in full 4:4:4 10-bit colour at 50Hz; this was solved using … Read more
Two retailers (Powerhouse and Amazon) posted details of new Sony televisions, this week – before Sony! We had written about them before the official news broke, but now have the confirmed information below. Three new TVs will be launched, each an ‘affordable’ UltraHD model: the XBR-X700D (48.5″, 54.6″), Z750D (64.5″) and X800D (42.5″, 48.5″) (XD70, … Read more
The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a Japanese-language paper, has published a story stating that Japan Display is to sell an LCD facility to China’s Jiangxi Holitech Technology. Second-hand sources say that the plant, in southern China, produces small- and medium-sized LCD modules. The deal is valued at $16.2 million. Japan Display does not own the plant … Read more
The last few decades can be easily labeled as the Display Decades (DD). With the rise of LCD, PDP, OLED, LED, DLP, Laser, EPD and other technologies, we have now a wide array displays to choose from. As a side effect this gave rise to Display Daily (also DD) as the source for display industry … Read more
HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (“Warner Bros.”) has become both a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance HEVC/H.265 Patent Pool. As a Licensor, Warner Bros. will make its essential patents available through the HEVC Advance patent pool, which provides a transparent and efficient licensing program for … Read more
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