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Global Display Solutions entered a partnership with E Ink following ISE 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 9), and has been developing products for the last two years. At ISE 2014, it showed two side-by-side E Ink displays for signage, and announced its aim to develop a ‘basic colour’ unit by the end of the … Read more
According to an opinion article written by Alan Wolk of TDG Research, Netflix is facing two serious challenges to its current hegemony over OTT streaming, which has long term implications for its business.
According to data from MM Research Institute, shipments of flip-phones rose in Japan last year, for the first time in seven years, while smartphone shipments fell. Flip-phones were up 5.7% YoY, to 10.6 million, while smartphones were down 5.3% to 27.7 million. Years of deflation and the presence of Japanese brands in the flip-phone market … Read more
Vestel is one of the largest OEMs in Europe, and is deeply involved in Turkey’s Fatih Project. However, the company was at ISE to talk signage. The newest of Vestel’s displays on show was a range of OPS monitors (in 32″, 40″, 50″ and 65″ sizes), which are available now and seeing heavy use in … Read more
Planar was clearly positioning itself at the show as the specialist in UltraHD and told us that all the displays that it was showing were UltraHD resolution (although this didn’t apply to the transparent OLED). First, we looked at the 55″ transparent OLED panel that we previewed on our front page a couple of weeks … Read more
Aoto’s stand was dominated by a curved 1.2mm-pitch LED display, part of the M Series (1mm – 16mm). However, it was not the main attraction. The most interesting product that Aoto was showing was a 65″ TV, using LEDs instead of an LCD panel. The Commercial LED Display (CLD) had a ‘very low’ pixel pitch, … Read more
Panasonic had a re-located booth this time – it was said to be bigger than last year’s. There was an impressive demo of projection mapping onto a Tesla and we made a short video of it. We met up with Enrique Robledo to look around the flat panel products. Panasonic has a new software platform … Read more
Augmented reality headsets either try to be very subtle in appearance, as in the sunglasses styles, or try to provide a superior optical performance without looking at the aesthetic consequences. In this group are the fighter pilot helmets, for example. The new Seer headset also falls into this latter category. The Seer headset by Caputer … Read more
Barco’s space-themed stand welcomed us with big LED displays and a really immersive example of a dome projection. The X-1.6 is part of a new high-end LED display range, the X Series, that was seen as a concept at Infocomm. Each module is 400 x 450mm, and several were held in one of Barco’s OBLX … Read more
Christie has appointed Sahara Nederland to distribute its high-end videoprojectors in the Netherlands.
According to Nielsen data, cable TV viewing in the USA was down 12.7% in January, as OTT services continue to gain popularity. Nomura Research, which highlighted the findings, called it ‘one of the worst declines we have seen since we launched coverage of these companies’.
NEC Display Solutions of America has named Todd Bouman as president and CEO of the Americas. Bouman previously served as VP, marketing for commercial displays and mobile products in the enterprise division of Samsung Electronics America.
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