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Philips had a positive presence at ISE and we started by looking at a new desktop monitor. The new 275P4VYKEB is a 27″ unit with 5120 x 2880 resolution. Philips is the third vendor after HP and Dell to launch a product at this resolution. The monitor has a glare screen, as users of this … Read more
The accounting controversy that rocked Toshiba last year (Toshiba CEO Resigns Over Accounting Scandal) is still plaguing the firm, which has forecast its largest-ever loss for this fiscal year (ending in March): ¥710 billion ($6 billion). This is even higher than the previous forecast of ¥550 billion ($4.5 billion) (Toshiba Forecasts Record Loss). Toshiba has … Read more
Innolux’s president, Wang Jyh-chau, has said that the company expects its LCD panel shipments and ASPs to fall QoQ in Q1’16. Because of this, continued operating losses are forecast for the corresponding business operations. Total area of large-size panels to be shipped in Q1 is expected to fall by almost 10% QoQ, with ASPs declining … Read more
PSCo will start distributing Samsung’s portfolio of LED displays in the UK and Ireland. The company has already placed an order for Samsung’s 1.5mm LED product.
The Japan based Nagase is announcing a collaboration with Inkron, a Finnish high tech material company, for novel optical materials based on “Inkron’s Optical Coating (IOC) products of photo-patternable dielectric and light control materials. These materials allow unique optical properties as well as excellent processing suitability for OLED and on-cell touch sensors can be implemented. … Read more
To promote National TV Safety Day in the USA, which was held on the 6th February, the CTA and Safe Kids Worldwide released a worrying statistic: a child in the US dies every three weeks from a TV tipping over. About half (47%) of such accidents happen in a bedroom. CRT TVs were identified as … Read more
Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Cynora, and the University of St Andrews have made contributions to the advancement of OLED power efficiency, using copper. Specifically, the researchers measured the underlying quantum mechanics phenomenon of intersystem crossing (ISC) in a copper complex. Copper, used as a fluorescent material, enables the manufacture of inexpensive … Read more
Matrox® Graphics Inc. today announced Matrox C900, the world’s first single-slot, nine-output graphics card that supports nine 1920×1080 displays at 60Hz. The latest card in the popular Matrox C-Series™ line of multi-monitor graphics cards, C900 will be demonstrated for the first time at ISE 2016 (Amsterdam RAI, Feb. 9-12, stand 11-F48). A special-purpose graphics card … Read more
tvONE, a leading designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge video and multimedia processing equipment, has been chosen by Olympus Surgical Technologies Europe to develop a custom video routing system transmitting 2D, 3D and 4K images for its minimal invasive surgery system. Olympus provides a complete workflow solution – from camera to screen – for minimally invasive … Read more
Everything is moving to high resolution – even your foamy beverages. The Ripple Maker, from Israeli start-up, CC, can ‘3D print’ images and text onto the foam on a cup of coffee. As our friend Mark Fihn, of the High Resolution newsletter wondered, “[Will] some enterprising inventor…figure out how to do this in 12-bit colour … Read more
I saw this editorial in Jon Peddie’s Techwatch newsletter. I know how to save the VR market It’s being overhyped, and that will ultimately drive consumers away—I have a plan “Commentators from all corners— financial, technical, gaming, and the general press—have complained or ridiculed the cost of Oculus’s new HMD, and the expensive system needed … Read more
SMPTE has announced that its board of governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large: Chris Fetner of Netflix and Leon Silverman of Disney Digital Studio Services. Bob Edge and Paul Treleaven were reappointed to serve as standards directors along with the newly appointed Dave Schnuelle. Michael DeValue, V. Michael … Read more
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