Vixs Result 16/06/2015
Vixs Systems Inc. has reported its first quarter results, narrowing its net loss to $1.7 million from $5.1 million in Q1 of last year. Turnover improved 34% to $9.9 million from $7.4 million a year earlier.
Parks: OTT Market Continues to Change
Parks Associates has forecast that global OTT revenues will rise from sub-$9 billion to more than $19 billion in 2019. In the USA and UK, 57% of broadband households subscribe to such a service, compared to 29% in Spain and 24% in Germany. Around 7% of US households (8.4 million) were found to subscribe to … Read more
Sharp Highlights Free Form Concepts
We were impressed with the Sharp Free Form displays that we saw at CES, but we were unable to get much more information, so we were pleased to catch up with the company at SID to get more background. Sharp told us that the key breakthrough was in developing IGZO technology, which allows the gate … Read more
JDI Amazes with Range of Solutions
I’d be tempted to say that the sheer number of things that JDI showed us was the highlight of the booth, but several of the demos were also very impressive. We started by looking at the JDI Memory in Pixel (MIP) technology (a concept which was also being shown by Sharp and AUO). JDI had … Read more
AUO Wins Award and Impresses
AUO started by showing us its 1.3″ (320 x 320 – 257ppi 350 cd/m²) plastic AMOLED and its 1.4″ “Full Circle” (400 x 400 – 287ppi 350 cd/m²) OLED which won the SID Best in Show award for 2015. The display uses special driver and cutting techniques to form a completely round display. Next we … Read more
Fraunhofer Shows Bidirectional SVGA Microdisplay at SID
The Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics group was at SID Display Week 2015 with a new SVGA Bi-directional Microdisplay OLED chip that can both reproduce and record images. The OLED on silicon display includes an embedded image sensor that can be used for eye-tracking in HUD (head up display) applications. Bernd Richter told us … Read more
CSOT Concentrates on LCD & OLED TV
An executive from TCL, the parent of CSOT from China was one of the keynote speakers (TCL Growing with CSOT Supply). CSOT had a booth at the show and the first product we looked at was a 110″ UltraHD Curved LCD. This was described as a technology demo, but mass production could start in Q3 … Read more
SID 2015 Round-Up
CCDL was showing a 6mm pitch LED stereo 3D display based on a polariser over each pixel, and these have polarising filters that are arranged to alternate in chirality. The firm told us that the approach is unique and patented. DNP was showing a number of films including new QD films. These will be available … Read more
For Wearables, Power is The Elephant in the Room (WF16)
The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on the role of and limitations for wearables imposed by power consumption and battery size, type and capacity. The speakers were Andy Crump, Ascent Batteries; Giovanni Mancini, Eink; Dominic Pajak, ARM; Tim Saxe of Quicklogic; and Sam Massih of InvenSense. … Read more
Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation (WF8)
Ernesto Martinez, Head of Wearable Computing at Kopin, delivered a talk entitled Wearables: Enabling Human Augmentation during the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference at SID Display Week. The speaker noted that Kopin, the venerable microdisplay maker, is now a thirty year old company. Dr. Martinez made reference in his talk to his prior work at MIT … Read more
An Autostereoscopic Display that Presents Smooth Motion Parallax
One of the challenges in many autostereoscopic display technologies is that of producing a smooth variation in the 3D imagery as the viewer moves in user space. That is, of producing smooth motion parallax along the horizontal axis. Recent developments on addressing this issue have been reported by a team of researchers headed by Munekazu … Read more
LG Display Shows 18″ Flex Display
We had a tour of the LG Display booth that started with a look at the latest 55″, 65″ and 77″ UltraHD OLED TV panels. There is no question that the visual performance of these panels is very impressive, although we worry that the lack of volume on OLED TV will make life very hard … Read more
