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Merck has begun construction on a new OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt, Germany. The 2,000m² facility, which will be the target of a €30 million investment, will start production of materials for displays and lighting by July 2016. The company has said that it wants to be the leading supplier of OLED materials by … Read more
CCS Insight has predicted that 2.5 million VR and AR devices will be sold this year – increasing to 24 million in 2018. CCS Insight praised the work of company’s such as Google, which has enabled many consumers to test VR using headsets like Google Cardboard.
Wiko’s Rainbow smartphones are offered in white, black, green red or blue.French manufacturer Wiko has followed its Rainbow smartphone with a ‘concentrated version’ called the Rainbow Lite. It is an entry-level model (the tag line is ‘Back to basics!’); although is features a large (5″) display, with an IPS panel, resolution is only 854 x … Read more
Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia, has said that he wants to resurrect the brand’s name on smartphones. Speaking to Germany’s Manager Magazin, Sureev said that Microsoft will lose control of the brand name in 2016. Nokia is already looking for suitable partners to sign a licensing deal. Nokia is banned from the smartphone market until … Read more
Business tablet adoption is accelerating in the UK, France and Germany, says IDC. Penetration is expected to exceed 15% of the total client base by 2018 – compared to just 6% in the second half of 2014. IDC found that enterprise tablet use is no longer limited to executives; 60% are used by line-of-business staffMore … Read more
After several years of successive gains, the MEA tablet market recorded its first-ever YoY decline in Q1’15, says IDC. Shipments fell 5.8%, to just over 3.8 million units. IDC said that the lower performance was caused by a sharp decline in Turkey – the region’s largest tablet market – where shipments were almost halved from … Read more
Italy’s communications regulator, Agcom, has said that the country is unlikely to meet the 2020 deadline for turning the 700MHz spectrum over to the telecoms sector. Agcom’s Vincenzo Lobianco said that a switch to DVB-T2 would be long and expensive. He added that even a 2022 deadline would be “challenging”.
Leaked emails from Sony show that Apple has been licensing the company’s UltraHD content for testing purposes since 2013. Although not earth-shattering, it does show that Apple is interested in the format – which is still not supported on the Apple TV STB. In fact, only the 5k iMac supports resolutions up to or above … Read more
Martin Chien is from Microlite Screen which has a new technology for projection screens for wide viewing angles. It is a new company, but Chien has more than ten years experience in screens. Projection is the cheapest display technology per diagonal inch, but there are drawbacks because of the problems of ambient light. You really … Read more
Ken Li is from Wavien and he started by introducing the company. The company develops IP in displays, especially in lamps and light sources.He talked about Wavien’s concept of putting laser-excited phosphor into liquid. Heat is an issue in laser-phosphor displays (LPDs) and liquid can help cool the phosphor. With careful design, you cold make … Read more
In questions about the different HDR formats that are being proposed, Talstra (Philips) said that standardisation is a bit slow, but everybody is worried about potential ‘format wars’ if there isn’t a clear standard for HDR. Thorpe (Canon) said that there is a big difference between the “real time” (broadcast) people who have a lot … Read more
Laurence (Larry) Thorpe of Canon gave a very “high bandwidth” talk and we hope we caught the main points! He addressed HDR but he also started by saying that Canon cannot separate HDR from wide colour gamut (WCG). Canon has been working closely within ACES, which is the format for content storage from the Academy … Read more
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