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Holst Can Make Washable LED Clothing

Paul Breddels spoke for the Holst Centre in Eindhoven which is a research centre working on the integration of electronics in and on flexible foils. Applications are in lighting, display, solar, medical and automotive sectors. Applications include integrating drive electronics for a simple segment OLED onto the film that the OLED is made on. The … Read more

Colegrove Updates on Touch

Jennifer Colegrove is from Touch Display Research and talked about touch and touchless input. She started by talking about “what’s hot” in the market, including non-touch areas. Colegrove said that she was one of the first analysts to look at the touch market, when it was around $2 billion in 2006, but she believes that … Read more

Werner Asks If We Really Need UltraHD?

Ken Werner of Nutmeg Consultants has been involved with Latin Display for some years, but a last minute problem with his visa meant that he couldn’t attend, so our own Bob Raikes presented his talks. The first focused on the question of whether we really need UltraHD displays. He looked at how acuity is measured … Read more

Werner Questions OLED TV

The second talk that Ken Werner was due to give was about quantum dots and their impact on the prospects for OLED TV. One of the claimed benefits of OLED TVs compared to LCD is a better gamut. Werner used a talk given by Seth Coe-Sullivan, from quantum dot maker, QDVision at an SID event … Read more

LEDs Coming for Lighting

Daniel den Englesen is a veteran of Philips who is now working with ABInfo. Although based in the Netherlands, he also does some work in Brazil and is also an Associate Professor at Brunel University. He is also a visiting professor at the SouthEast University in Jiangsu, China. He spoke about LEDs in lighting and … Read more

UK 999 Location Tracking Made 4,000 Times More Accurate

A new SMS-based system has been developed in the UK by EE, HTC and BT, which can pinpoint the location of 999 (emergency services) calls made using a mobile phone to within 30m. The Advanced Mobile Location system used a smartphone’s GPS to do so. Around 60% of 999 and 112 calls are made using … Read more

Advanced Advertising at the NYC Television Week

The NYC Television Week hosted another conference that focused on Advanced Advertising in the TV space. There were several panels focusing on topics from big data, targeting advertising and programmatic TV (automated and dynamic buying of advertising space – Man. Ed.) , that will all transform the TV advertising industry. There were four panels in … Read more

Advantech Protects its Tablet

In June this year, Advantech announced a rugged tablet PC called the PWS-870. The unit has now been launched. It is a 10.1″ model designed for field services markets, with an optional sunlight-readable display and several certifications. As well as being IP65-compliant, the PWS-870 is MIL-STD-810G and 5M3- certified, even when docked. It has been … Read more

Applied Materials Result 19/11/2014

Applied Materials Inc. has reported its fourth quarter and full year results. The company posted a net profit in Q4 of $290 million on turnover of $2.2 billion, which compares with a net profit of $183 million on turnover of $1.9 billion in the final quarter of last year. For the year Applied Materials achieved … Read more

Atomos Shows 4K Shogun Video Monitor/Recorder

In 2012, 3D Guru Al Caudullo (3DGuy.tv) judged the Atomos Ninja the “Best External Video Recorder” for 3D. I had a chance to visit Atomos (Victoria, Australia) at CCW 2014 and see not only the current versions of the Ninja, the Ninja 2, Ninja Blade and Ninja Star, but also the recently introduced Shogun as … Read more

Audio-Video Over IP in Broadcast

Several sessions and many companies talked about when, if and how the broadcast production facility will move away from SDI-based video workflow connectivity to one based on using IP protocols. A paper presented by Peter Chave of Cisco nicely summed up the current situation in broadcasting. SDI is still the predominate transport medium within capture … Read more