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Adi Abileah is, these days, an independent consultant in display technology, although readers may know him from his time as Chief Scientist at Planar Systems. He gave a very interesting talk on special vertical display application requirements including automotive, aviation, medical and defence. Each of these applications has special requirements. Automotive displays are based on … Read more
There was an exhibition area as part of the Forum event and much of it was dominated by servers, SANs and a large area by POS solutions and equipment. Clearly retail systems are a big application for Fujitsu. It’s interesting to see how cultural issues affect technology. A sales person started to explain Fujitsu’s latest … Read more
Sony discussed its Crackle OTT offering at the Next TV Summit. Sony stated that networks have become more equal in the eyes of the consumer through the use of apps. At the same time, the on demand behavior changes the amount of money consumers are spending on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD. As a response to … Read more
Antonio Hélio Castro Neto gave a talk on graphene at the event. He started work on the material in the US but has now moved to Signapore to further the research. The level of committment of the government of Singapore to R&D is very impressive (see my editorial article in last week’s issue for more … Read more
There was a further panel discussion on the future of video everywhere and the measures needed to improve the delivery on every screen. The title of the session was “Technology Improving Video Delivery on Every Screen and Device”. The panellists were Jeff Baumgartner (Multichannel News), Jeff Allen (Clearleap), Michael Bishara (Synacor), Yosi Glick (Jinni) and … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
The 20th HbbTV Interoperability Workshop will take place in Munich, Germany, on 9th and 10th December. All HbbTV application developers and manufacturers of HbbTV products are invited to attend. More details can be found at http://tinyurl.com/l4kpk7p.
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
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