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In my Display Daily articles, mobile devices are a common topic and among those, augmented or virtual reality glasses are very dear to my heart. Many years ago I argued with a colleague that I would wear a comfortable headset that provides me with the same experience as a good sized/quality monitor on my desk. … Read more
When we talk about UHD, often also misquoted as 4k, we start thinking of more pixels in our next TV set. From a business perspective we talk about what will accelerate or hinder the UHD adoption. Typically the issue brought up the most is the availability of native UHD content rather than scaled FHD content. … Read more
Patents are tricky as they give us a glimpse of a potential development of new products, though it may also lead us in a direction that may never be realized. Google has been awarded US Patent No. 9,024,843 describing a new form of augmented reality device. In this new application, Google describes an augmented reality … Read more
ESCATEC faced a challenge when trying to devise a means of automatically testing LCD displays. “We found that the LCD displays had strange patterns on them,” said Thomas Eschenmoser, ESCATEC’s Section Head Test Engineering. “We worked out that these are Moire patterns caused by an interference between the images on the arrays in the LCD … Read more
The next speaker was our own Bob Raikes, who outlined that the panel and TV set industry is already geared up for UltraHD and quoted the recent comment from DisplaySearch’s Paul Gray that by 2018, all TV panels above 50″ would be UltraHD. The content of Bob’s talk is well known to Large Display Monitor … Read more
Peter Nayler is from STMicroelectronics There will be more than 3 billion connected people by the end of this year around the world. In rural areas other, wired technolgies, are not able to deliver connectivity but satellite can get everywhere. Satellite broadband is relatively high cost per bit, has limited bandwidth and relatively high latency. … Read more
Daniel Biedermann is SVP of corporate development at SES and he started by saying that there are a lot of national satellite initiatives for making satellites, partly attracted by Chinese money and interest, so growth has been negative for satellite makers. Satellite operators have seen some growth (around 5.5% per year) and is expected to … Read more
A 2012 ruling, which added New York’s Times Square to the USA’s Highway Beautification Act, is threatening the iconic billboards. The 1965 Act limits the size of signs along roadways to less than 1,200ft² (around 110m²). Failure to comply could see about $90 million in federal highway funding withheld from the city. However, an NYC … Read more
Nvidia says it will wind down its Icera modem operations in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 and that the company is open to a sale of the technology or operations. Nvidia acquired Icera in 2011 as part of a plan to engage in the smartphone revolution but since then, Nvidia has refocused its strategy … Read more
The first speaker was Karim Michel Sabbagh of SES, the relatively new President and CEO of SES who said that the aim of satellite is to be on the sea, on the land and in space. He started by talking about the Quantum of the Seas – an ocean liner which has more connectivity than … Read more
SES, the satellite operator, held one of its regular industry days in Luxembourg and we attended, as our own Bob Raikes was among the speakers. SES has been a supporter of HD and better quality TV for a long time and Thomas Wrede was a speaker at the Meko DisplayForum HDTV event back in 2005, … Read more
AU Optronics (AUO) had a disappointing start to the second quarter, reporting declines in both sales and shipments in April. Revenue for the month was down 12.2% sequentially and 7.3% year on year at NT$30.5 billion ($990.6 million), bringing sales so far this year to NT$125.8 billion ($4.1 billion), 0.7% lower than the same period … Read more
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