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AOC Showcases Current Product Highlights at CeBIT 2016

During this year’s CeBIT, display specialist AOC invites you to take a look at its recent product innovations designed for B2C, B2B and gaming users alike. The manufacturer will showcase its diverse product line-up, including the recently released C3583FQ curved gaming monitor or 32? widescreen 4K UHD display U3277PQU, at the booth of IT distributor … Read more

Opportunities for Added Value in Large Displays

Our own Managing Editor, Bob Raikes, opened up the afternoon session by looking at the development of the large display markets in Europe. He said that he chose the topic because there are real opportunities for added value by companies in Europe. He identified four markets for digital signage and public displays, LED displays, interactive … Read more

Displays in Cars To Include OLEDs

OS Yang is from Samsung Display where he looks after new business in automotive and PIDs. Following up the mention of video walls by Raikes, he said that Samsung Display sells 72% of all video wall panels. He also said that automotive is a very conservative industry because of the critical issue of safety. Although … Read more

DVIGear Supports High-Res Multiview

DVIGear has expanded its switching and scaling portfolio with the DVI-3580a, an UltraHD multiviewer switcher/scaler. The unit can accept up to seven video inputs: HDMI or DVI (x4), DisplayPort (x2) and VGA. Input formats up to UltraHD at 60fps are supported. An internal scaling engine means that users can scale the output to their desired … Read more

TREASORES Develops Thin, Flexible Electrodes

The TREASORES project ((Transparent Electrodes for Large Area Large Scale Production of Organic Optoelectronic Devices) is a European project, established in late 2012, aiming to develop technologies to reduce the production costs of certain organic electronics. These included solar cells and LED lighting panels. As well as seven patent applications, TREASORES has developed and scaled … Read more

IHS: FPD Revenue Will Reach 4-Year Low

Global flat-panel display (FPD) revenue will shrink by 6% YoY this year, to $120 billion, according to estimates from IHS. This represents the lowest result since 2012. “The industry has begun to question whether the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil will spur panel demand, as Brazil’s domestic situation and economy are worsening,” said IHS’s Rick … Read more

Panasonic Deepens UNESCO Partnership

Panasonic has installed a full AV solution at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, in Room 1 – the centre’s largest conference room. Room 1 seats about 1,000 people. Panasonic supplied a PT-DZ21KEJ projector; AK-HC1800G multi-purpose camera; AG-HPD24EJ memory card portable recorder; AV-HS450EJ switcher; and AW-RP50E camera controller. Panasonic has worked with UNESCO since 1995.

Oculus Will Support Mac When Apple Prioritises Graphics

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR, has said that the Oculus Rift headset will work with Macs when Apple makes “a good computer”. Apple does not currently prioritise the high-end GPUs that the Oculus Rift requires to work: today, no single Apple computer meets the Rift’s minimum specifications. Luckey told Shack News, “You can buy … Read more

Sony Seeks User Feedback on Prototypes

Sony has announced a new R&D project called the Future Lab Program. The initiative will share concept prototypes with users while they are in the development stage, and seek feedback and inspiration. The first project, known as ‘N’, will be shown at SXSW in Austin, Texas (12th – 20th March). It is a concept with … Read more

TADF Lifetime Extension Could Apply to Existing OLEDs

The lifetime of OLEDs based on thermally-activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) has been ‘greatly’ increased via a ‘small tweak’, say researchers at Japan’s Kyushu University. The modifications, which are easily implemented, can also potentially raise the lifetime of existing OLEDs in smartphones and TVs. Typical OLEDs are based around an organic molecule, which emits light when … Read more