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LG Display announced today that it will invest in a new OLED light panel manufacturing facility. The planned facility will be the first 5th generation (1000 x 1200mm) OLED light panel manufacturing plant in the world. It is to be located in the South Korean city of Gumi, where it will produce a range of … Read more
With the advent of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) displays, a new need to do conversions of color volume and gray scale has arrived. That is because there will be an increasing variety of content graded in various color gamuts and dynamic ranges (range or black to white levels) as well … Read more
After a succesful event in San Jose in 2015, SID Display Week 2016 is moving to San Francisco. The Display Daily team will be at the show and we’re working to help companies that are exhibiting to get the most from the event.
This was our first year attending the Wearable Technology Show in London’s ExCel Centre, which has been running since 2014. Already, the event is beginning to branch out to cover more areas, such as the IoT. Gartner’s well-known technology Hype Cycle lists five stages of a product’s development: Technology Trigger; Peak of Inflated Expectations; Trough … Read more
A company called Arovia showed a fold-out screen at South by Southwest last week. No, not a foldable OLED: a rear-projection display and projector. The Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD) is about the size of an Apple TV box when folded. Unfolding it turns it into a 24″ display, which can receive content through HDMI or … Read more
The UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People has presented Samsung Electronics with an Inclusive Society Award; this recognises the firm’s work in making its smart TVs accessible for blind and partially-sighted people. The RNIB worked with Samsung on the development of its smart TVs, which have text-to-speech and zoom functionality, as well as a … Read more
LG’s OLED TV won the shootout in 2015Value Electronics in the USA will host its annual TV shootout event at CE Week in New York City. The shootout (now in its 13th year) will take place on the 22nd and 23rd June, and aims to crown the ‘King of UHD TV’. Although the list is … Read more
Holotronica, creator of a holography/projection screen technology called Holo-Gauze, created a 20m x 9m augmented reality installation for the launch of Team Speedo in New York. A film charting the success of 24 Team Speedo athletes was shown on the Holo-Gauze screen, with the athletes were hidden behind the screen. Each athlete was revealed at … Read more
Christie has revealed the products that it will showcase at Prolight+Sound 2016 (5th – 8th April, Frankfurt). The company’s new HS Series; Boxer models (including the 2K20, 2K25 and 2K30); Velvet LED tiles; and Pandora’s Box v5.9 software will be demonstrated. ID Tag Tracking, a way to auto-follow people on-stage or create trackable stage props … Read more
Despite extensive media coverage, as many as two-thirds of US consumers are unaware of virtual reality as a technology, according to Horizon Media. Although awareness is low, more than a third (36%) of the 3,000 consumers surveyed by Horizon said that they were interested in owning a VR device. Excitement was higher than it was … Read more
Microsoft announced that it will implement HDR support in the DirectX 12 API at GDC 2016. A timescale was not provided or details of what will be included.
Notorious tipster Evan Blass has tweeted (@EVLeaks) that the upcoming HTC 10 smartphone will have what he terms a ‘Super LCD 5’ display, rather than AMOLED. The phone will also feature a 3,000mAh battery. Other leaks suggest a Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage.
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