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The smartwatch market will grow from 3.6 million unit shipments in 2014, to 101 million shipments in 2020 according to a new report released today by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. “Apple Watch success will drive the overall smartwatch market,” said Antonios Maroulis, analyst at IHS Technology. … Read more
Technavio, a tech-focused research firm, has published a new report on the global ultra HD TV market, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of 45% from 2015-2019. Ultra high definition TVs: About the report The latest Technavio report draws attention towards the increasing popularity of 4K TVs, which is presenting growth opportunities for … Read more
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
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