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Putman: UltraHD Spells End of 1920 x 1080 Sets

Pete Putnam

Pete Putman of HDTV Expert has predicted that the production of ‘ordinary’ (1920 x 1080) TV screens will cease by the end of 2016/2017. Quoted in the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers’ (SMPTE) Newswatch publication, Putman says that we are approaching price parity between 1920 x 1080 and UltraHD sets, with a “relatively … Read more

Russia Carries Weight in East Europe Pay-TV Market

Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will climb 45% from 2010 ($5 million) to 2020 ($7.3 million), according to a forecast by Digital TV Research. However, most of that increase has already taken place and revenues will only climb 17% from 2014 to 2020 (although that is still more than $1 billion). Digital pay-TV revenues will … Read more

Toshiba Awarded Prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award

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

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?

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

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

Kickstarter Coming for Consumer Holographic Displays

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

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

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