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In a panel session, Gagnon asked what the display industry had done that didn’t work. Bhowmik immediately identified 3D as a technology that just didn’t happen. Sanduski said that the reaction to Avatar was great and that drove hope. However, watching in a theatre, you’re in a very focused experience and so wearing glasses is … Read more
Gang Xu is from Huawei’s Consumer Business Group and he talked about consumer experiences for mobile devices. There are a lot of trends in image quality and form factor innovation, but with limits imposed by power consumption issues. The display also has to work in a wide variety of conditions, especially in developing regions such … Read more
Apparently the answer is “a lot”Jim Sanduski is President of Sharp Electronics in the US and he talked about the issues of profitability for the industry. He said that high resolution is a big driver of the market – even reality shows are wanted in HD – consumers like to see more detail. It has … Read more
The next speaker was Erin K Walline who is Director of Engineering – User Experience and Design at Dell. She said that you have to look at the whole experience if you want to understand the consumer. Dell has all of its design group in one organisation, covering surface design, industrial design, packaging design, user … Read more
Dr Achin Bhowmik of Intel made himself popular with delegates by saying how fantastic today’s displays are. Customers want to buy products just because of the great displays. However, human interfaces are still largely “archaic”. For example, the TVs are wonderful, but the remote control is awful. How do you make it intuitive, he asked? … Read more
The first panel session addressed the question “Is Good Enough, Good Enough: Can LCD Persevere?” Jason Hartlove, CEO of Nanosys was the first to speak and he showed a slide that looked at efficiency (brightness/power) over time of LCD vs OLED. In 2006, a TV with 250 cd/m² used 185W and cost $4800, now Samsung … Read more
Next, David Hsieh of IHS asked “Is low cost the only path to success?”. He started by showing an interesting chart on the relationship between the profits for brands and for panel makers. Samsung & LG should have really good advantages in the market because of their vertical integration and the chart shows that LCD … Read more
Amal Ghosh kicked off the Business conference for Display Week 2015 and he is the President of SID. He started by saying that attendance at the Business conference is up 40% on last year. Ian Weightman of IHS introduced his company which organised the event and which has a bigger display team after the acquisition … Read more
We were at Sharp where we spoke to Tom Spears, Director, Automotive Display Marketing, and he told us about two new technology developments that will allow auto designers to get away from using rectangular displays.
3M was at SID promoting its film products. We spoke to Arthur Lathrop who told us about developments in QD-based films. We also interviewed Bill Simser, Automotive Business Manager at 3M about the company’s films that are addressing challenges faced when putting LCDs in to vehicles.
QD Vision’s Seth Coe-Sullivan spoke to us to give his views on the issue of the use of cadmium in QDs.
In the I-Zone at SID, Polar Screen Technology showed its 3D system, which displays a 2D image along with the “deltas” to the left and right eye.
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