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Spend on Emerging Device Categories – including Wearables, AR/VR Headsets, and Smart Home – Will See Continued Robust Growth, According to IDC

October 6, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Total value of three emerging categories of products – augmented and virtual reality headsets, smart home devices, and wearables – is expected to reach $372.1 billion by the end of this calendar year, and swell to $542.8 billion by the end of 2025 according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly … Read more

Rakuten Kobo released two new e-readers

October 6, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Rakuten Kobo has two new eBooks, the 8″ Kobo Sage and the 7″ Libra 2. The Kobo Sage has an EInk Carta 1200 display with resolution of 1440 x 1920 with 300ppi. The display has a 20% faster response time than E Ink Carta 1000 and a 15% improvement in contrast ratio. … Read more

Asus ProArt PA32UCG Review: Everything AND The Kitchen Sink

October 6, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Toms Hardware reviewed the Asus ProArt PA32UCG ‘Professional Gaming Monitor’. It said that the monitor is: “extreme in every respect, including its $5,000 price tag. With near-perfect out-of-box accuracy, record setting brightness and contrast, and supreme versatility, it’s a great solution for professionals and gamers seeking the ultimate display” The only downsides … Read more

Measuring HDR Displays Gets Clearer

December 21, 2022October 6, 2021 by Bob Raikes

I’m a great believer in the saying ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it’, but measuring displays is really, really tricky. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. More than thirty years ago, selling high end CRT-based monitors, I found that an image that was ‘good enough’ was really hard to define. CRT-based … Read more

Mastering Monitors Vs TVs

October 6, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Florian Friedrich of FF Pictures made a 10 minute YouTube video to explain the difference between mastering monitors and TVs as well as covering the basics of miniLED, OLED and dual panel LCDs. As you would expect from an ICDM committee chair (and a friend of Display Daily), the explanation is very … Read more

UGC Group Chooses Sharp/NEC for Four New Cinemas in France

October 6, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe announces that its RB laser technology projectors have been selected by the UGC Group to be used across its four (4) new cinemas. Cinemas in Plaisir, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Lyon in France will benefit from the unsurpassed brightness and rich colour spectrum delivered by Sharp/NEC’s cinema solutions. Laurent Rieupeyrout, Technical … Read more

Sharp/NEC Announces Two New Models to the C Series Large Format Displays Range with Full Suite of Office Functionalities

October 6, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe announces two new models in its innovative C Series large format displays which combine stunning UHD resolution, high reliability, and long lifetime. The C Series has become the display of choice for a wide range of applications, from business presentations to digital signage. As part of its commitment to continuous … Read more

Performance Meets Sustainability in Barco’s New LED Rear-Projection Cube

October 6, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

If you would list the most desired features for a rear-projection cube destined for the control room market, you would probably describe the next-generation of the OverView MVL-721. High brightness and great image quality? Check! Low power consumption and sustainability? Present! Reliability and a long lifetime? Naturally! This LED-lit RPC is another remarkable step forward … Read more

Barco Updates RPCs

October 6, 2021 by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Barco annouced the next generation of its LED light sourced MVL-721 FullHD rear projection cube (RPC) which is said to have an increase in brightness of 55%. There was no detail on the changes, presumably in the light source of the DLP-based unit. On-screen brightness is from 155 cd/m² (eco mode (FXS … Read more

LG Display begins development of 12.9-inch OLED iPad

October 6, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported a few days ago that The Elec had said that Apple and Samsung had ‘parted their ways’ on a project to introduce OLEDs for iPads. Now the blog has reported that LG Display is developing a 12.9″ OLED for an iPad that does include a tandem structure – previously reported … Read more

Links Week Ending 15th October 2021

October 5, 2021 by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. LG brings more content to third-party smart TVs QSR Chain Uses Transparent LCDs On Grab’n’go Lockers To Guide Order Pickups Bank of America is turning to virtual reality … Read more

Links Week Ending 8th October 2021

October 5, 2021 by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. HP Inc. Completes Acquisition of Teradici Ambient Photonics and Universal Electronics Inc. Work Together to Bring Sustainable Power to Home Entertainment and Smart Home Devices Kopin Announces Design-In … Read more