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Spectral Edge today announced that it is enabling operators and set top box manufacturers to transform the TV viewing experience for the estimated 4% of the world’s population that suffers from colour-blindness. Spectral Edge has successfully integrated its Eyeteq image enhancement technology with STMicroelectronics’ ‘Cannes’ set-top-box chipset, making it easily available to operators and service … Read more
A while back I wrote in Display Daily about an article by Katie Sherwin of the Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) titled Low-Contrast Text is Not the Answer. As I mentioned at the time, the use of low-contrast text as a design element for some web sites has irritated me and continues to do so. A … Read more
Samsung Display had a meeting room conveniently close to the press office. We had a look at the panels on display, but there was little that was particularly new. There was an 82″ 21:9 5120 x 2160 curved panel (it’s basically a wider 65″ panel). There were three 65″ UHD panels for TV, a slim … Read more
The Apple special event on September 9, 2015 was the usual iPhone update show accompanied by some other Apple news about the iPad, Apple Watch and the Apple TV. As expected Apple announced the release of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. The new iPhone models are still supplied with the same 4.7” and 5.5” … Read more
MMD, the leading technology company and brand license partner for Philips Monitors, announces its first curved display for the desktop. The 34-inch Brilliance Curved UltraWide display wraps around the user’s line of vision to create a truly immersive, focused experience; rich DTS™ enhanced audio through integrated speakers complements the visuals with superb surround sound. With … Read more
EDO turns on its 5.6″ WQHD flexible AMOLED panel this week. WQHD stands for a 2560×1440 resolution with 525 PPI. It leads AMOLED and flexible technologies in China. Flexible AMOLED display is becoming the favorable choice by the top tier brands and is featured in the latest models of those household brands. This will trigger … Read more
The final panel of the day before the social part of the event covered UltraHD. Julien Libouban is from Orange where he works on audiovisual quality, but he was speaking as part of the 4ever consortium. Stefan Heimbecher is CTO from Sky Deutschland and he is looking hard at UltraHD. Andres Roman is from Sony … Read more
Ian Fogg moderated the next session which had a topic “From Fixed Function to App Platform: What’s next for Connected CE?” The first panel was Jacobo Toll-Messia of Hubii, a news content aggregator; Christopher Schlaeffer is from Yetu which develops smart home platforms. Leon Van de Pas is from Nokia’s (currently) Here company which offers … Read more
Ian Fogg is originally from the cable TV business, but now looks at the mobile industry for IHS. He gave a high bandwidth talk that started by looking at the mistakes that had been made in the mobile market. Apps drive the market, and transformed the market to new growth in 2008/9 when the mobile … Read more
Maverick, part of the Tech Data group, has signed a new partnership with Optoma. Optoma’s entire range of projectors will be made available to Maverick’s education, IT and Pro AV client base.
Tamura-san is from IHS and looked at the development of the panel industry. China is the biggest market for TVs (23% of global) and phones (33% of global) and that means that success in China is essential for global business (e.g. look at Apple’s business in the last couple of years). Although local brands dominate … Read more
Paul Gray of IHS then gave a summary of the market as he sees it. He said that the current situation looks like the “Triumph of the generalist” – the general purpose smartphone is dominating just as PCs, which are also general purpose devices did in the past. The smartphone is also cannibalising everything else … Read more
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