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Public Displays and Brexit

I’m writing this editorial at the Digital Signage Summit in Munich. It’s interesting that there is very little about hardware in the whole event – I’m one of only a couple of hardware people on the whole two day agenda (we’ll have a report next week). That seems to reinforce my comments from a few … Read more

NEC Uses FlatFrog in LFDs

NEC has said that its 55″ and 65″ XUHD displays – first seen at ISE this year (NEC has Big Video Wall Plans) – will use a new touch system called InGlass touch, from Flatfrog. The Multisync X551UHD and X651UHD-2 are designed to be used as touch tables. The InGlass touch supports up to 10 … Read more

Leyard Secures Win at Infocomm

Leyard, with its subsidiary Planar, won seven awards at Infocomm 2016. Six industry publications presented awards: AV Technology, Commercial Integrator, Digital Signage, Government Video, Sound & Video Contractor and Systems Contractor News. Two products were the recipient of the prizes: Leyard’s TWA Series LED video wall and Planar’s LookThru transparent OLED display.

UTS Avoids Point-to-Point With Matrox

Matrox is celebrating a win for its Maevex solution in Australia’s University of Technology Sydney – which has just built ‘the largest teaching laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere.’ The use of the Maevex encoding/decoding solution meant that the UTS could avoid going point-to-point. Each of the 12 Maevex encoders can stream to any of the … Read more

Apple Describes Phone With Wrap-Around Display

Apple has patented a phone with a wrap-around display – that is, a display encircling the device entirely. To avoid excessive battery drain, sensors would determine where the user is looking, and only the appropriate display would be turned on. All physical controls have been moved to the bottom of the phone, to take advantage … Read more

Ignis Signs Patent License With LGD

Ignis Innovation has signed a patent license agreement with LG Display, covering its circuit technology for use in OLED displays. The agreement is non-exclusive, but specific terms were not disclosed. Analyst Comment I wrote a positive Display Daily about Ignis last year (Can Ignis Enable the OLED TV Market?) and this news should settle the … Read more

Foxconn Plans Big Changes for Sharp

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou has said that his company will “carry out a series of measures to help Sharp make a turnaround as soon as possible,” after officially joining the board in July. Gou was speaking at Foxconn’s annual shareholder meeting in Taipei. To lower Sharp’s operating costs, Gou said that he plans to withdraw … Read more