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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
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
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
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
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 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.
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 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.
Reports from Korea suggest that Samsung Display is creating an exclusive group to focus solely on Apple’s product development and management. According to Korean sources, the aim of the group will be to monitor both what Apple produces and demand for its products, so that Samsung can “react and respond faster”. Samsung executive director Eungsang … Read more
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have agreed to settle their differences and committed to ending any ongoing legal disputes, as well as agreeing to settle any future disagreements through dialogue. The agreement is wide reaching and includes the long-running dispute between the two Korean companies’ display subsidiaries, Samsung Display and LG Display (LGD), over OLED … Read more
Form Labs has recreated the iconic 1950s TV, the Philco Predicta, using 3D printing – although the scale is a little off. Using their own printer, the Form+1, and clear resin, the team printed the TV in a tiny scale. To put it in perspective, the ‘TV’ uses a 2″ Adafruit LCD screen! Of course, … Read more
Samsung confirmed this week that it expects operating profit in the first quarter to rise by more than 2% sequentially, thanks to strong performances in its flat panel and chip businesses. The company is likely to post an operating profit of KRW5.4 trillion ($4.5 billion), compared with KRW5.3 trillion ($4.4 billion) in Q4. Samsung’s operating … Read more
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