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YouTube and Facebook Supporting 360-Degree Video

March 31, 2015 by Chris Chinnock

360-degree videos are becoming more popular as content for virtual reality headsets, but they can also be viewed on a smartphone or tablet. Just swivel your head or mobile device side-to-side or up/down to see a changing window inside the 360-degree video. You can also use your mouse to navigate the 360-degree video on a … Read more

Toshiba Awarded Prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award

March 31, 2015 by Helen Vince

Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS), a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, today announced it has been awarded with a Red Dot Award for product design for two of its products, the Toshiba Chromebook 2and the Portégé® Z20t. As one of the world’s largest and most distinguished design competitions, this annual and international award recognizes an … Read more

APAC Touch Panel Market is Expected to Reach $ 13.48 Billion, Asia-Pacific, by 2020

March 31, 2015 by Helen Vince

According to a new report published by ApacMarket.com, the APAC Touch Panel Market (Technology, Application and Country) – Market Size, Asia-Pacific Trends, Company Profiles, Analysis, Opportunities, Segmentation and Forecast, 2013 – 2020, the Asia-Pacific touch panel market is expected to reach $13.48 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 12.8% during 2014 – 2020. With … Read more

Is Samsung Looking at a Change in its OLED TV Plans?

December 21, 2022March 31, 2015 by Bob Raikes

This week, we’ve seen rumours from Korea that Samsung may be getting back into the OLED TV business by adopting the “White OLED with colour filter” approach that was developed by Kodak and is being used by LG in its OLED TVs. Up to now, in making OLEDs for TVs Samsung has been trying using … Read more

KOE Europe’s Rugged+ 3.5″ TFT Provides Excellent Display Performance

March 31, 2015 by Tom Allen

Industrial LCD manufacturer, KOE have announced the introduction of a new high performance 3.5″ TFT display. The Rugged+ TX09D200VM0BAA features a 3:4 aspect ratio, QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) resolution and IPS (in-plane switching) technology to provide highly consistent colour and image performance from all viewing angles. KOE’s Rugged+ modules provide reliable and consistent operation … Read more

Philips Receives 49 Prestigious Red Dot Awards for Design Excellence

March 31, 2015 by Vanessa Browning

With an unprecedented 49 awards, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) excels at the 2015 “Red Dot Award: Product Design”, one of the most important global competitions for product design. Among the 49 winners, the stylish LumiStreet LED Roadlight picked up an award in the highest category “Red Dot: Best of the Best”, for top … Read more

Kickstarter Coming for Consumer Holographic Displays

March 31, 2015 by Tom Allen

A US-based company called Holographic Optical Technologies (HOT) will soon begin a Kickstarter campaign, aiming to bring (static) holographic displays to consumers. HOT’s experience comes from holographic medical displays. It will begin its new campaign on the 20th April, introducing consumer models called the Voxbox (8″) and Voxbox Pro (22″). A hologram production service will … Read more

CJ Group Debuts Panoramic Cinema in Vegas

March 31, 2015 by Tom Allen

ScreenX (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 40) was developed by South Korea’s CJ CGV in 2012. It presents cinema-goers with a 270° panoramic view; as well as the front screen, images are projected onto the walls. The CJ Group will demonstrate ScreenX in the USA for the first time at CinemaCon 2015, from the 20th … Read more

Display Vendors Recognised at Red Dot Awards

March 31, 2015 by Tom Allen

The annual Red Dot design awards have taken place, with display companies taking multiple wins. 10 Lenovo products won awards, including AIO PCs, laptops, monitors, workstations, tablets and convertibles. Philips went further, with 49 awards in multiple categories (although not all were for display products). Sony took 15 prizes, including two Best of the Best … Read more

Peerless-AV Names EMEA Business Development Director

March 31, 2015 by Helen Vince

Peerless-AV has appointed Stuart Robson-Frisby as director of business development for EMEA. He joins Peerless from ViewSonic where he most recently held the role of European product marketing manager, having also worked for Samsung and Citrix Systems.

LGD Overtakes Rivals Thanks to iPhone 6

March 31, 2015 by Tom Allen

LG Display edged out Samsung Display to become the world’s leading sub-9″ display vendor in Q4’14, IHS DisplaySearch data shows. The company had an 18.7% market share, compared to SDC’s 15.7% share. Japan Display was also at 18.7%, but its revenue was slightly lower than LGD’s ($2.1 billion versus $2.17 billion). SDC had led the … Read more

LG Invests in Chinese Polariser Production

March 31, 2015 by Tom Allen

LG Chemical is to expand polariser production in China. The company will invest $100 million to expand production in Nanjing, raising annual capacity from 40 million m² to 54 million m². LG Chem also plans to build a third line in Nanjing by the first half of 2016.