New High-End LG TVs in Q3
Korea’s D-Daily says that LG will release new QD and OLED TVs in Q3 this year. The QD models, to be released in September, are expected to be about 20% cheaper than the OLED TVs.
Cree Restructures LED Business, Cuts Forecast
Cree has announced a restructuring of its LED business in order to cut excess capacity and overhead costs. The company also reduced its fiscal fourth quarter revenue forecast to $375 million, from its earlier projection of $420 million to $440 million. The company said that recent LED market trends resulted in higher LED average selling … Read more
North American SVOD Most Mature, But Way to Go
The North America subscription video on demand (SVOD) market is ‘far from mature’ – at least, according to new figures from Digital TV Research. North America had 50.6 million SVOD homes (excluding sports) at the end of last year. The figure represents 38.8% TV household penetration, and 48.1% fixed line broadband household penetration. This represents … Read more
Microsoft Developing a “Holographic Interface” for Surface Devices
The means of interface between people and computers is currently dominated by the use of a sextet of well-known devices: mice, trackpads, joy sticks, keyboards, styluses and touch screens. The latest news, however, is that Microsoft is developing an alternative means of input, one that could enable somewhat different user usage patterns. The starting point … Read more
Unilumin Aims at Control Rooms
Unilumin was showing the 6K set up that it had previously showed at ISE. The company is targeting control room applications and it reckons that it was the first to really develop high grey scale at low brightness, which is a pre-requisite in this application. Each colour channel can support 16 bits of grey scale; … Read more
AOTO Aims at Monolithic Displays
AOTO is one of the better Chinese LED brands and it was showing a range of small pitch LEDs that were down to 1.2mm, 1.1mm and 0.75mm. While a number of the companies are looking at monolithic displays, AOTO is more targeted at this kind of application and is developing displays with 98″, 130″, 163″ … Read more
Worldwide PC Monitor Market Sees Declining Shipments in the First Quarter of 2015, According to IDC
The total worldwide PC monitor market shipped more than 29 million units in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a decrease of -12.0% compared to 1Q14 and 1.5% less than forecast, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker. “Although there were a few bright spots – Japan experienced a gain … Read more
Leading TV Brands More Reliant on Chinese Manufacturers in 2015, IHS Says
TVs made by outsourcing specialists are expected to reach an industry record of 43 percent of LCD TVs shipped globally in 2015, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. Outsourcing manufacturing has become one of the most important business strategies for TV brands, because it can improve … Read more
NEC Display NC1201L Digital Cinema Projector Achieves DCI Compliance
NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, today announced Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) compliance for its NC1201L laser projector, targeted to modestly sized theaters. The NC1201L model is the latest in NEC’s Digital Cinema Projector Series to have earned compliance on DCI Compliant Equipment. The test was … Read more
Multitaction Boosts Software
We last talked to Multitaction at the DSE show in March. (Multitaction Shows Off iWall). At Infocomm, the company was showing a curved wall configuration based on its 55″ modules (which are made from LCDs, with 32 ir cameras behind the panel in an array to capture the images of items that contact the screen). … Read more
Visual Tumult Disappears @ Infocomm 2015
After last year’s Infocomm expo, I wrote: “Many 4K and 3D displays throughout the two main exhibit halls were simply upsetting to watch. Apparently, many folks still don’t know how to show 3D or 4K without causing nausea or discomfort.” In that article, I noted that stalwarts like LG, Christie, and several other manufacturers really … Read more
Three Nuggets from CE Week
Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Consumer Electronics Association abhors a season without one of their trade shows in it. For some years, the one-time early-summer lacuna has been filled by CE Week in New York. The event began haltingly, but has now hit its stride with more big-time participants and greater press coverage. CE … Read more
