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Bob O’Brien was once with Corning (and was previously with LG.Philips Displays) but is now an independent consultant. O’Brien has been working on a new global brand report with GfK and NPD POS data and he is looking to establish a series of reports to combine data from the two companies. NPD has data for … Read more
Jason Hartlove, CEO on Nanosys started by saying that all major TV companies are using his technology (except LG – but he’s working on this). Consumers do care about resolution, but at some point resolution becomes a case of ‘diminishing returns’. He said that research that 3M undertook showed that most consumers prefer wider colour … Read more
Daniel Lee is the Director of Market Intelligence for LG Display (LGD). He started by looking at market trends. “You Dream, We Display” and Lee said that in Back to the Future there were a range of display ideas that have now become real. Improvements in production technology have helped to drive TV – first … Read more
Paul Gagnon of IHS ran the session on TV. He said that in the past of the TV industry, there was a very measured approach to new technologies and brands took time to migrate features and technologies through the range, but this changed with the arrival of flat panel TVs. Traditional CRT and R/P TVs … Read more
See our Investors Conference report for coverage of Kyulux, which also spoke at the Business Conference. IC2 Kyulux Has Great Support and Intriguing Technology
The next speaker was a “late notice” speaker as the planned speaker was not able to make it. The speaker was Dr. Conor Madagan, the co-founder and President of Kateeva, a developer of inkjet-based equipment maker focusing on thin film encapsulation (TFE) and deposition. It is also making formulations for inks and qualifies them (although … Read more
Seth Coe-Sullivan is from QDVision and he started by introducing the company. On the firm’s booth at SID, the firm’s marketing was focused on the shipping of commercial products with its technology. Coe-Sullivan also took that line. He said one of the things he is proudest of is getting to market first with quantum dot … Read more
Brian Daniels is Senior VP and Business Unit Head for EMD Performance Materials (previously AZ Electronic Materials) and he started by getting his audience to focus on the future from 2030 onwards. EMD is part of Merck KgA (after Merck acquired AZ) which has rebranded (see the Display Daily A New Look for Merck/EMD for … Read more
The next speaker was Huaping Li, Chief Scientist of Atom Nanoelectronics. He spoke about Carbon Nanotube (CNT) transistor backplanes, based on single chirality inks. He said that the mobility is better than oxide transistors. His company has developed a CNT transistor of N type and have made around 30 with very good uniformity and also … Read more
Charles Annis of IHS in a classic, Displaysearch-like high bandwidth presentations (which I love!), said that the company is getting more and more queries about OLEDs and this is because there is some revenue growth in the category, whereas other display markets are very limited. Annis is a specialist in display manufacture and his talk … Read more
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
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