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Dell, Samsung, Lenovo See Positive Growth in Worldwide PC Monitor Market Despite Overall Decline in Q4’14

April 1, 2015 by Helen Vince

Worldwide PC monitor shipments totaled 34 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), a year-over-year decline of -4.4% yet 1.3% more than forecast, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker. “For consumer-oriented vendors like Samsung and LG the holiday season helped fuel the sector. Shipments were also bolstered … Read more

V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements

April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

A UK company called V-Nova claims to have developed a new compression technology offering between two- and three-times bitrate savings in video streaming, compared to codecs such as H.264, HEVC and JPEG2000. ‘Perseus’ has been adopted by more than 20 companies and organisations so far, including the EBU, Hitachi, Intel and Broadcom. It is currently … Read more

Researchers in Tel Aviv Find Electroluminescent Material

April 1, 2015 by Norbert Hildebrand

In an article published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from the University of Tel Aviv announced that they have found a material class that is not only self assembling but also electroluminescent. According to the publication, Prof. Ehud Gazit and doctoral student Or Berger of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology at TAU, in collaboration … Read more

Fraunhofer to Show Flexible Encapsulation Films

April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

Fraunhofer FEP will present test results for its barrier and transmission films, which have been exposed to weather for one year, at SVC 2015 (Santa Clara, USA, 25th – 30th April). Flexible electronic components are seeing increasing use in both new and existing applications. However, these components must be protected against environmental influences, such as … Read more

Canatu Introduces Super Thin Flexible Transparent Conductive Film

April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

Canatu, a leading manufacturer of zero reflectance and flexible transparent conductive films and touch sensors, has added a new super-thin 23 µm film to its CNB (Carbon NanoBud) transparent conductive film offering targeted at super-thin devices and flexible applications. The product is the thinnest transparent conductive film on the market. The optical performance of the … Read more

PMA Research Announces Top-Selling Projectors in February

April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 16 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading North American projector dealers, retailers, web resellers and distributors. Their Tracking Service family … Read more

And Finally… – Vol 22 No 16

April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

Have you ever thought that your connection was just too fast? Do you struggle to find those precious moments to make a cup of coffee or take a toilet break while waiting for cat videos to load on YouTube? Fear not – Google has you covered. The company has unleashed a dial-up version of Google … Read more

Touch Display Research Publishes Touch and Emerging Display Report

April 1, 2015 by Vanessa Browning

In the recently published “Touch and Emerging Display Monthly Report,” Touch Display Research Inc., an independent market research and consulting firm, analyzes flexible display technologies and market forecast, OLED, the Quantum Dot Forum 2015, Flex 2015 Conference, and flexible batteries. “I attended and presented at the ‘Quantum Dot Forum 2015? in San Francisco, and it … Read more

First iPhone 6C Images Appear Online

April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

Alleged pictures of the case of Apple’s iPhone 6C have been leaked. Blog “Future Supplier” published the images, which show a differently-shaped cutout for the camera and speakers compared to the iPhone 5C. View the images at http://tinyurl.com/nalortg. Comment We haven’t heard of Future Supplier before, so treat this with caution. (TA)

Titan X Should be Used for UltraHD – And Only UltraHD

December 21, 2022April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

In a series of benchmarking tests, Hexus has determined that Nvidia’s new Titan X GPU (Titan X: A Low-Cost Answer to Titan Z) is capable of driving UltraHD content at very high frame rates (from 84fps to 111fps, on average) when used in an SLI configuration. In fact, using the card for anything other than … Read more

iPad Pro Features Two Ports, Photo Shows

April 1, 2015 by Tom Allen

Images that are claimed to display Apple’s much-rumoured large iPad Pro show the tablet with two ports. The images, from Dutch website Vandaag Apple, show an opening on the side of the tablet that looks very similar to a USB-C port. The usual leaked image disclaimers apply.

Nissan Leaf – is it a display?

December 21, 2022April 1, 2015 by Mark Fihn

I recently opined to a group of display industry experts that I thought “the next big thing” in the display industry was not going to be related to some incremental improvement related to high-information-content image quality or performance. It was instead going to be related to very low-information-content technology that could be inexpensively deployed across … Read more