Samsung Sponsors Home Country’s Olympic Games
Samsung will sponsor the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The company has signed a corporate sponsorship deal worth KRW100 billion ($91.4 million).
Panasonic to Light up People’s Palace at Prolight+Sound
Panasonic will present a 3D video mapping, on a scale model of the Bucharest Palace of Parliament, at Prolight + Sound 2015 in Frankfurt. Using the newly launched DZ21K Evo series, the successor to Europe’s favourite high brightness projector, and the all new PT-DZ780, Panasonic will recreate a 3D video mapping projection used to celebrate … Read more
MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 15
Alcatel‘s Onetouch Watch (TCL Transitions From Manufacture to Entertainment) is now on sale. The Watch has a circular face with a rectangular 1.22″ display (240 x 204 resolution). It can be pre-ordered now, for $150. HTC has refreshed last year’s One M8 flagship smartphone with the One M8s, for those who don’t want to pay … Read more
2014 EMEA Thin Client Results Will be Hard to Match
Thin clients in EMEA had a ‘brisk’ 2014 with 7.9% YoY growth (1.97 million units shipped) – but the market is now settling down. By the end of 2015, IDC expects the EMEA thin client market to return to lower growth. Global factors boosted shipments last year, such as Windows XP end-of-life and postponed commercial … Read more
TV Panels Drive Large-Sized Shipments in 2014
Taiwan’s MIC reports that, due to a 5% rise in LCD TV shipments last year, LCD TV panels were the main application for large-sized panel shipments in 2014. Shipment value of LCD TV panels was up 1.9%, to $43.8 billion, but ASPs were down 6.1% to $175.70. The majority of LCD TV panels – 47.4% … Read more
Panel Non-Adjustments to Cause Notebook Oversupply – MIC
There are no plans to lower notebook panel shipments this year, says Taiwan’s MIC. Concerns have thus been raised over excess supply and price competition. A YoY comparison puts the panel/notebook unit shipment declines close together. Worldwide notebook PC panel shipments will reach 191.8 million this year, according to major vendors’ plans: a 0.3% YoY … Read more
Mexico Gives Away Almost 3 Million Digital TVs
Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute has distributed around 2.8 million digital TVs to poor families in the country, as the nation prepares to switch off analogue signals. A total of 13 million TVs and STB converters will be subsidised by the government as part of the scheme. ASO is due to be completed by the end … Read more
Leia Shows Off new Holographic Display
Last year we reported on a new type of display presented by David Fattal. The display uses a diffracting light guide to create 3D images floating in space. This report from my colleague Matt Brennesholtz explains how the display, which was developed at HP Labs, functions. After the company spun out of HP Labs as … Read more
FlexEnable Looking at New OLED & LCD Applications
This week, I made a visit to FlexEnable, the company that is the ip and technology part of the Plastic Logic company that split between the factory in Dresden (which continues as Plastic Logic GmbH) and the R&D/licensing group in Cambridge. I was surprised to realise that although they are relatively local and we have … Read more
LG Launches 5.5″ QHD Mobile Display with expanded Color Gamut
LG has launched a new mobile display panel that offers an enhanced color gamut and QHD (2,560 x 1,440) resolution. This translates into a pixel density of 538 ppi. The new panel also includes in-cell touch technology and increased brightness at the same power consumption. According to the press release from LG, the new display … Read more
VR System Impression Pi Announces Funding Stretch Goal on Kickstarter
Impression Pi, the virtual and augmented reality headset that took Kickstarter by storm last month, has announced a new stretch goal and a referral program. The VR/AR headset has already raised 212% of its initial goal and is funding until May 7. Having surpassed their $75k goal quickly and raising more than $165k to date, … Read more
Helpful Hints for Video Wall Installations
On a quiet day for news because of the public holidays in Europe, we thought we include a link to a useful article detailing recommendations for video wall best practices from NEC, Peerless AV and Sharp. Go to Digital Signage Today for the article.
