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eBooks – German blog site, Lesen.net was told by Sony that the company is giving up the eBook market and that the current PRS-T4 will be the last product in its Sony Reader line. This follows on from decision to drop out of the US market in April 2014 and the closure of stores in … Read more
Projection – High-End Professional – Schools, colleges and universities can now get a super-size high resolution picture with the new Optoma EH200ST projector, just launched. Optoma’s Head of Product Marketing, Justin Halls, said: “Space is often an issue in classrooms and screens must be large enough for the whole class to see. The new EH200ST … Read more
Beyond HD – The Magnolia 4K LED display from SiliconCore has been certified by Crestron under their 4K certification program. The SiliconCore display has attracted a lot of attention with its high resolution (4K) and its fine pitch (1.5mm). Insight Media has written about it several times, most recently at InfoComm and earlier at NAB … Read more
Display Manufacturing and Materials – QD Vision was at Display Week to promote its quantum dot technology, Color IQ, but the more important announcements were made at Computex where new design wins with BOE and TPV were revealed (see video). QD Vision synthesizes their quantum dots as a solid that they package in an “optic” … Read more
Ostendo has been quietly working on a micro-LED display they call a Quantum Photonic Imager. This consists of red, green and blue LED with some near-collimating optical structures fabrication with extremely small pixel pitches – typically 5-10 microns (see video for details). This is essentially an LED microdisplay that can serve as the engine for … Read more
Mobile Displays – Plastic Logic was in the I-Zone at Display Week showing off its latest products and updating attendees on progress (see video). Plastic Logic make organic TFTs on flexible plastic substrates. Many think this is the type of solution tat will be necessary for flexible display in the future, especially flexible OLEDs. They … Read more
Mobile Displays – Sharp and Pixtronix are developing a MEMS display that acts like a pocket door to let red, green and blue light pass through for a very efficient mobile display. At Display Week 2014, Insight Media visited the Sharp booth, which featured a seven-inch Pixtronix prototype display, a joint venture between Qualcomm/Pixtronix and … Read more
Augmented/Virtual Reality – We stopped by the Kopin booth at Display Week 2014 to talk about some of the company’s business strategy changes, as well as its products and concepts currently in development. Historically, Kopin has supplied transmissive, high-density LCD microdisplays for various head-mounted display and augmented reality and virtual reality solutions. While the company’s … Read more
The Public Display market in Europe, Middle East and Africa grew 20.5% on a volume basis compared to Q1 2013 according to Meko’s DisplayCast Public Display service. Volumes were down slightly compared to Q4 2013, but value was up on the sales at the end of the year. “Over the last couple of years, we … Read more
In contrast to the global data released by NPD DisplaySearch this week, Meko reported the sales result for Desktop Monitors in Q1 in Europe as a positive one, with the market as a whole up 6.9% over the EMEA territory compared to Q1 2013. It was down quarterly from the busy Christmas period by 9%, … Read more
Meko is 20 years old this month – that’s quite an achievement. It may not quite be as long as Nissiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hotel founded in 705 in Japan, but it’s longer than the average of the S&P index (a US company list) that apparently has an average company life of 15 years. Thanks … Read more
Nico Vernieuwe has a long history in both telecommunications and displays. For 18 years he worked at Alcatel-Lucent, across both Europe and the USA, before moving to an eight-year employment at Barco. While there he was involved in several vertical markets, dealing with projectors, LCD displays, LED walls and image processing. For the last two … Read more
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