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AOC AGON Premium Gaming Monitor now with NVIDIA G-SYNC technology and IPS Panel

AOC, one of the top global brands in the display market, presents the NVIDIA G-SYNC™ edition of their AGON premium gaming monitor with a colourful IPS panel – the AGON AG271QG. With its native 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution the display delivers extremely fast images at 165 Hz without motion blur, screen tearing and display … Read more

Ex-DisplaySearch and -LG Execs Open New Research Company

Wasn’t sure about this one. Delete if you think it’s too much talk about competition – T Ross Young, founder of DisplaySearch (now owned by IHS) and Bob O’Brien, formerly of LG Philips Display and Corning, have opened a new market research firm focusing on the flat panel display industry. Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) … Read more

BroadSign International, LLC and TINT Enter Partnership to Facilitate the Union of Digital Out-of-Home with Social Media

The top-ranked digital signage software provider, BroadSign International, LLC, has partnered with TINT to make its social media marketing platform readily available to Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) media owners. TINT’s platform allows marketers and advertisers to source real content from local communities, which increases engagement and drives conversions through dynamic social platforms and layouts. DOOH media … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 24

Dynascan is showing three high-brightness LFDs at the Digital Signage Summit in Munich this week. The first is the 75″ DS751LT4 (2,500 cd/m²), which is being demonstrated in Europe for the first time. The other two were seen at ISE 2016: the fanless 55″ DS552LT4 (3,500 cd/m²) and 65″ DS652LR5 (4,000 cd/m²). Two new Chromebooks … Read more

AUO is “Cautious” About OLED Investment

AUO chairman and CEO Paul Peng has said that the company will take a “cautious” attitude to OLED investment. Peng does not think that OLED panels will replace LCD products in the short-term (two-to-three years), he said at a recent event. AUO expects large increases in OLED production capacity in 2018, due to Chinese makers’ … Read more

Bluetooth 5.0 Doubles Speed, Quadruples Range

The fifth generation of the Bluetooth standard will be released in late 2016/early 2017 – bringing increased range, speed and messaging capacity. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) says that Bluetooth 5.0 will be especially well-suited to whole-home IoT applications. Range will be four times higher than Bluetooth 4.0 LE (around 365m), while speed will … Read more

Developments in Solid-Liquid Mixtures Suggests New Applications

Researchers within the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University are exploring new means for adjusting the extent that a material scatters light. The researchers believe that such a capability can eventually lead to a variety of improved optical devices. A recent article on this subject published by the team … Read more

DS26 DisplayPort Benefits from Type C

Syed Athar Hussain works for AMD. He is vice chair of VESA and he spoke about DisplayPort in that capacity at the Summit. Technologies that VESA is working on include DisplayPort, Adaptive sync, Display Stream Compression (DSC), frame-aligned dynamic transport, Display ID (better than EDID) and a replacement for coordinated video timing with reduced blanking. … Read more

DS25 Lattice says 8K is Coming

Marshall Goldberg is from Lattice and was with Silicon Image before it was acquired by Lattice. He tends to work on things that are two to three years out, he said. He explained the development of DVI, then HDMI, MHL and WirelessHD. HDMI is used in 5 billion devices and virtually 100% of TVs, STBs, … Read more