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AUO will begin to ship bezel-less panels for UltraHD TVs in Q1’16, say sources in the Asian supply chain. Instead of using bonded drivers under the bezel, the company will use gate driver on array (GOA) technology, similar to Sharp’s Freeform Display. AUO hopes that such units will exceed 30% of all UltraHD TV panel … Read more
Netflix has already broken into the UltraHD market. Now, in an interview with Digital Trends, CPO Neil Hunt has said that the company’s next focus is HDR. All of the company’s original content is now being filmed with HDR-capable cameras. He anticipates that 5% of content will be available in HDR within a year, and … Read more
As was rumoured last month (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 03), LG has announced that its flagship G6 OLED TV will cost $8,000. The company has started to take pre-orders for the set. Samsung has started a very limited release for its UltraHD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500 (Samsung Uses LED in Modular TV … Read more
Freesat, the subscription-free satellite TV service, today announces a strong final quarter to 2015, with the addition of 36,000 new homes in the three months to December 2015. After adding 61,000 homes over the course of 2015, Freesat is now available in over 1.93 million households and is watched by more than four million viewers … Read more
Swisscom’s TV access lines rose by 166,000, or 14.2%, YoY in 2015 to 1.33 million. Over 60% of subscribers use the cloud-based service Swisscom TV 2.0.
Vodafone has announced that it had 9.4 million TV customers at the end of the year, up from 9.2 million at the end of September. Integrated TV bundles such as Vodafone Red (Germany) and Vodafone One (Spain) have seen ‘encouraging’ adoption.
Charter in the US has announced an increase in video subscribers for Q4’15 and 2015 as a whole. According to Charter, video customers increased by 29,000 in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared with a loss of 3,000 in the year-ago period.
If you have not heard of Solar Tectics before, you are not alone. The company has received patents (in 2015 actually) on creating single crystal Si films at low temperatures. This is of interest in the solar cell and display industry. The background is that the deposition of amorphous Si is cheap and can be … Read more
The touchscreen part of a display is typically coated with a grid of electrodes composed of a highly transparent conductive material. The function of the grid is to detect the position of the user’s touch. Researchers at ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) have developed a means to produce such a material using an innovative nanoprinting process. … Read more
Big news in projection for Christie was the launch of the HS Series, which currently consists of two models: the D12HD-HS and D12WU-HS (Christie Teases ISE Models). The company says that it has ‘solved’ the colour balance problem of laser phosphor using RGBY colour wheels spinning at three times the standard speed. Product manager Curtis … Read more
Quantum dots and related approaches for tailoring and improving the quality of light for specific applications provide a remarkable bang for the buck, which is why they are rapidly penetrating the display and lighting markets. Recently, Gary Johnson of Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon – who is also secretary of SID’s Pacific Northwest (PNW) Chapter – … Read more
Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC power conversion, solid state lighting (SSL) and Bluetooth(R) Smart technology, today announced that the company is entering the smart TV and set-top box (STB) market with a family of highly integrated PMICs that leverage its power management leadership in smartphones and tablet computing. Dialog … Read more
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