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Karen Robinson of Nanolumens started by talking about the movie, “Minority Report”, which showed a world where displays and interactivity have become seamless and that’s a world we’re moving to. She pointed out that youngsters use phones for a small amount of text and lots and lots of video. For outdoor advertisers, there is a … Read more
Dr Paul Apen is from E Ink and he talked about the use of reflective displays in digital signage. LCD and LED are able to provide bright displays, however in some applications, a bright display is not necessarily the right solution. It can be hard to compete with the sun and energy consumption may be … Read more
Jennifer Davis is from Planar/Leyard which, of course, covers both LED and LCD technologies in its “consultative selling” business. The choice of the right display starts, of course, with the applications and customer requirements. It’s not always a simple decision. Within the niche of high brightness, there are a number of vertical applications including aviation, … Read more
Sanju Khatri of IHS started the second session, which was on the high brightness advertising display market. She started by explaining the use of high brightness and outdoor displays in digital signage applications. She said that the key point is that location-based Digital Out of Home (DOOH) advertising allows micro targeting of consumers at the … Read more
In a previous article (Is educational VR content ready for prime time?) I tackled the notion of educational content categories for both 3D and virtual reality. I wrote: “…3D educational content came in a diversity of approaches and design – six flavors, if you will,” adding that “contemporary VR content for the education market today … Read more
Jason Hsu is from IHS and he looked at what is next in Mobile PC displays. In ‘the old days’, PC replacement was always about performance, with the PC running faster and faster each time. He noted that each Windows refresh period has been slower with a shift from 5 to 6 to 7 and … Read more
Leono (Chao) Guo is Vice Chief Strategic Marketing Officer for BOE and he talked about the “PC” being an “irreplaceable Link for the post PC era” PCs and smartphones have been enabled by Moore’s Law, to develop from ‘thinking to linking”. Communications and ‘linked’ devices have been increasing bandwidth although spending on consumer ‘linking devices’ … Read more
Roland Wooster is from Intel, where he is responsible for promoting PC and All-in-one (AIO) technology to boost device refresh. He started by discussing UltraHD and HDR. In monitors, there was a boost for new high resolutions with the switch to LCD from CRTs – then the next wave was TV, which has more or … Read more
Vinita Jakhanwal is from IHS and she spoke about smartphones – nobody can live without them these days, she said. However, the smartphone market is showing saturation with only around 1% growth this year. So, you need to look at the layers within the market to find the opportunities. Nearly 42% of the market will … Read more
The next speaker was David Hsieh, who heads up the Display Research for IHS, and he asked why display innovation is bypassing the PC/IT space? He showed the development of the industry overall and the growth in area consumption of flat panels and it is coming from automotive, TV, public display etc, not in PCs … Read more
The Business Conference was opened with introductions by Yong-Seog Kim, President of SID and Ben Keen of IHS. Keen introduced IHS which runs the Business Conference and which has acquired seven companies to build up its business, including iSuppli (which had Stanford Resources), Screen Digest, DisplayBank and, of course, DisplaySearch. The first speaker was Chas. … Read more
The annual ISTE conference is rapidly approaching, convening in the last week of June in my own home town of Denver, Colorado. The ISTE conference is the largest ed-tech conference in the U.S, and will offer more than 1,000 educational sessions to more than 23,000 teachers, professors and administrators. Examining the ISTE 2016 conference landscape … Read more
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