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Speaking at Finetech 2015 in Japan, LG Display VP Sooyoung Yoon has estimated that LCD displays will represent 90% of the display industry’s $180 billion revenue in 2018. Yoon spoke about the changing display industry, covering the move from black and white to colour and rising sizes. He expects that the industry will soon see … Read more
Motive’s TabletTV service (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 46) has been released in Europe, on the Apple App Store. It is initially available in the UK, joining TabletTV UK (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 49), but can also be used on the continent.
Netflix has established its own certification programme to help smart TV buyers. The ‘Netflix Recommended TV’ logo will be shown at retail stores, on TVs that the company has chosen. Existing TVs with the logo include LG’s 2015 UltraHD models; Android TVs from Sony; and Roku TVs from TCL, Hisense and Insignia. Netflix looks for … Read more
Research firm Ovum has predicted that premium OTT streaming services will reach 100 million subscribers this year. The shift is especially apparent in mature markets, augmenting free services such as YouTube. With the launch of OTT services by TV providers, such as HBO, Ovum expects the traditional TV value chain to be re-established against technology-led … Read more
We are still awaiting the release of the Apple Watch and the expected reports of great sales. Of course, technical details are being widely discussed based on news from the supply chain, Apple and news outlets. We also know quite a bit about the functionality and usage provided by Apple, with some sources already posting … Read more
Source: Touch Display Research The next wave in both touch and touch-less technology was the focus at the Society for Information Display Pacific Northwest Chapter meeting with guest speaker, Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, Principal Analyst at Touch Display Research. Top on her list of hot trends for 2015 were the smart home initiative (Google’s purchase of … Read more
Bristol UK-based Ultrahaptics is developing a free-space haptics technology that employs ultrasound to create haptic sensations without requiring the user to touch a surface. The firm’s Evaluation Program aims to provide developers with an “opportunity to get hands on with our mid-air tactile feedback technology”. Ultrahaptics exhibited its mid-air haptics technology at CES 2015 and … Read more
LG Electronics USA joined forces with Netflix for the official launch today of LG’s 2015 4K ULTRA HD (UHD) OLED and LED TVs, home audio products, monitors and projectors at a joint event in New York City. At LG’s “Dare to See OLED” event, coinciding with Netflix’s 4K streaming premiere of their much-anticipated original series … Read more
Innolux saw sales increase 35.6% month on month in March, reaching NT$36.9 billion ($1.2 billion) and taking sales for the first quarter to NT$100 billion ($3.2 billion), an increase of 11.6% year on year but down 12.9% from Q4. Large panel shipments in March increased 28.1% sequentially to 11.3 million units, while small and medium-sized … Read more
Hannstar Display saw sales in March increase 38.9% from February to NT$1.8 billion ($57.7 million), though this represented a year on year decrease of 5.8%. Revenue in the first three months of the year was down 6% from the same period of last year at NT$5.3 billion ($170.1 million). Hannstar’s March small and medium panel … Read more
Bandwidth restoration – before. Click for a larger image. Faroudja Enterprises, founded by industry veteran Yves Faroudja, demonstrated image quality improvement technologies to ‘protect the visual beauty of content from SD to UltraHD for any viewing screen’. The three enhancement technologies introduced at NAB are intended to provide high-quality images, even when bandwidth is at … Read more
Convergent Design has used Semtech’s GS6140 6G UHD-SDI cable equaliser and GS6080 6G UHD-SDI cable driver for its new Odyssey 7Q+ monitor/recorder.
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