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Sharp/NEC To Announce New Laser Projector For Leisure Environments

What They Say Sharp/NEC Display Solutions Europe pre-announced a new UST DLP FullHD projector that can create images up to 5,000 Ansi lumens and with images up to 150″. The throw ratio is 0.23:1. The firm showed the unit, which it recommends for signage applications in leisure and museum environments at the recent ISE 2022 … Read more

M7 Group integrates TV platforms into smart TVs – Philips First to Adopt

What They Say The M7 Group, part of Canal+, said that it has worked with Mediatek to ensure that its M7 channel mechanism FST (Fast Scan Tables), full compliance with the M7 CAM (Conditional Access Module) and HbbTV OpApp work correctly on the firm’s chips to enable SmartTVs, STBs and HDMI dongles to support the … Read more

Porotech Announces Strategic Partnership with IQE

Porotech, a pioneer in microLED and GaN-based semiconductor technology, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with IQE plc (AIM: IQE, “IQE” or the “Group”), the leading supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions to the global semiconductor industry. The focus of the partnership is to develop, scale and commercialise Porotech’s unique … Read more

Links Week Starting 16th May 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. This may be our first look at the Motorola Razr 3 (image) Panasonic announces five-strong OLED TV range for 2022 Displaynote And Dell Join Forces For Hybrid Panasonic … Read more

First thoughts from SID Display Week 2022

I write this article with exuberance at the end of an exhausting week. I arrived in San Jose for SID Display Week on Saturday night, and since Sunday morning I have not stopped moving, meeting, speaking, and schmoozing. What follows is my on-the-fly reactions to what I saw and heard at Display Week 2022. Everyone … Read more

LG Display’s Magic Ingredient:  Deuterium – and an Announcement

It is no secret at all that at CES this past January Samsung Display Company (SDC) introduced its Quantum Dot OLED (QD-OLED) display to a limited audience and presented side-by-side comparisons with LG Display’s (LGD) well-known white OLED (WOLED) display. Among the characteristics commented on by technical journalists and analysts was the significantly greater luminance … Read more

HEMIX Home Electronics Market Index Q1/2022

What They Say The GfU in Germany said that the German market for consumer electronics was up in Q1 2022 by 7.5% over last year and almost reached €12 billion. ‘Private IT’ was down 6% to €2.1 billion, while CE was up by 4.2% to around €2 billion and telecommunication products were up 16.5% to … Read more

Samsung Electronics Showcases New Era of Micro LED Technology at ISE 2022

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is showcasing the future of Micro LED technology at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2022 in Barcelona, with three new models of its state-of-the-art display technology, The Wall. “Micro LED technology is set to define the future of display innovation. From the luxury industry to hospitality and travel, the potential of Micro … Read more

Samsung Display delays installment of pilot line for QNED

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Display has postponed the installation of a pilot line for QNED display manufacture by at least a year and has disbanded the team that would have installed it. That moves a likely start to commercialisation of the technology back to, probably, 2025/26 at the earliest. The firm … Read more

QD-OLED vs. WOLED Image Performance Comparison

Samsung’s new QD-OLED TVs have been touted by reviewers as delivering a brighter picture with a wider color gamut than comparable WOLED TVs. And while the S95B (55” TV) isn’t as bright as some of the brightest LCD/LED TVs, it’s the brightest OLED to date, and its color reproduction is extremely good. But the differences … Read more

TriboTouch Enables Low Latency Touchscreens

In display related applications, a useful definition of latency is “the delay between what a finger does and how fast coordinated graphics are drawn.” It is important that latency be minimized because excessive delay can “degrade precision in tasks such as drawing, and, in general, break the realism and responsiveness of direct manipulation interfaces.” A … Read more

Market Bifurcation

What a difference 12 months can make. In the middle of 2021, the display industry was at peak, with annual revenues of almost $160bn. Corona bounce working and studying from home had pulled in demand: this coupled with supply shortages, of glass, drivers, and ICs pushed up pricing to levels not seen since 2017. But … Read more