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Touch Makers Plan Lower In-Cell Pricing

Touch panel makers in China plan to lower in-cell pricing by 15% – 20% this year, to increase their competitiveness and retain a leading market share, say supply chain sources. More handset vendors in the country are expected to use in-cell touch in mid-range and high-end units this year and will seek competitively-priced solutions. Huawei … Read more

LDM Product Roundup Vol 22 No 6

A USB 3.0-to-DisplayPort graphics adapter has been released by Diamond Multimedia, supporting UltraHD resolution. The BVU5500 uses DisplayLink’s DL-5500 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3) and is compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, as well as MacOS versions from 10.8 to 10.10. Users can use the adapter to send signals from a USB source … Read more

Christie Introduces Lightweight 30K Lumen Projector

At the upcoming ISE in the Amsterdam RAI February 10 -12, Christie Digital will officially introduce its latest projector targeting the Rental and Staging market, the Boxer 4K30 projector. This projector is a 3-DLP projector with 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution and 30,000 center lumens output (29,000 ANSI). The projector uses 1.38″ DMDs and provides … Read more

Waveguide-based Displays Maturing for Augmented Reality Applications

One of the most attractive ways to create an augmented reality image is to simply have a thin, transparent waveguide in front of the eye that can display the desired images or symbols. AR eyewear from Vuzix and Microsoft (who called theirs “HoloLens”) both appear to use a surface relief grating (SRG) approach to extract … Read more

Technologies For Flexible AMOLEDs

LG flexible dislay structure

A new article published by SID – Information Display discusses the challenges and barriers for creating the flexible AMOLED used in LG’s G Flex smartphone. The article describes the solutions LG developed to make the flexible display. Here is a short summary, for more information, please read the complete article on the SID website. LG … Read more

Computacenter Sells Recycling Business to Arrow

Computacenter has signed an agreement with Arrow Electronics to sell its IT disposal and recycling business, RDC, for £56 million ($85.3 million). RDC is considered to be one of Europe’s largest IT recycling firms but contributed only 1.4% of Computacenter’s total turnover.  Under the terms of the agreement, Arrow has also entered into a five … Read more

Pico Projectors Migrate From DLP to Lasers

Markets and Markets has released a new research report (http://tinyurl.com/l2occhu), predicting that the pico projector market will be worth $9.32 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 39.82%. Pico projectors are expected to become integrated in mobile phones and digital cameras, with shrinking chipsets also leading to projector miniaturisation. Most pico models are currently DLP … Read more

Sony Preparing UltraHD Playstation

The Playstation 4 and Xbox One disappointed when they were launched, with no mention of UltraHD gaming. We’re still not there, but a bright spot has appeared for fans of the format. According to the Huffington Post, Netflix’s John Hunt claims that Sony has “promised” a new version of the PS4 that will support UltraHD … Read more

Matrox Products to Drive Video Walls and Deliver Video Wall Content throughout ISE 2015

Matrox® Graphics Inc. today announced that a variety of Matrox products will be featured on third-party stands at ISE 2015 (Amsterdam RAI, Feb. 10-12). Matrox C-Series™ multi-display graphics cards will be used with Scala digital signage software to play content developed by Pixel Inspiration.   Matrox Mura™ MPX video wall controller boards will be used … Read more

Samsung Showcases Collaborative Classroom Technology at TCEA 2015

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is highlighting its fully integrated one-to-one learning package – Samsung School – at TCEA 2015 this week, as well as its full suite of education products and solutions including Galaxy tablets and smartphones, Chromebooks and classroom displays. Samsung will also host informative sessions to help educators create dynamic learning environments with more engaging curricula … Read more