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Society for Information Display Unveils 2021 Display Industry Award Winners

May 17, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

The Society for Information Display (SID) announced the winners of its 27th Annual Display Industry Awards. The 2021 Display Industry Award (DIA) recipients reflect the ever-evolving display product landscape and represent a wide range of technological advancements ranging from a state-of-the-art VR display, to ultrathin durable glass, a high-performance touchscreen controller, leading-edge TV products, and … Read more

AUO to Exhibit Cutting-Edge Display Technologies and Applications for Post-Pandemic Smart Living at SID Display Week 2021

May 17, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up digital transformation for global industries. People are increasingly dependent on human-machine interfaces for remote and contactless communication, which has led to a strong desire for high-end displays. For many years, AUO has been committed to the research and design of innovative display technology. This year, through participating in the … Read more

Links Week Commencing 17th May 2021

May 17, 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. Quest 2 will soon support “hardware bicubic texture filtering,” a scaling technique that should result in sharper-looking textures, according to consulting Oculus CTO John Carmack. Walmart Poised to … Read more

Nitride Semi Reports Progress in the Development of Red Micro LEDs

May 17, 2021 by Arthur Berman

It is desirable to make micro LEDs as small as possible. One potential benefit of doing so is to enable more compact microdisplay based display devices. The good news is that conventional blue and green micro LED chips can and have been successfully reduced in size. It has, however, proven difficult to reduce the size … Read more

Universal Display Corporation to Present Next Generation OLED Platform Technology Developments at SID Display Week

May 14, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED® technology and materials, announced that the Company will present at the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week 2021 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition being held virtually May 17-21. “We are excited to be share some of the next generation platform technology developments in … Read more

Links Week Ending 14th April 2021

May 14, 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. We’ve been asked to help with this survey about storage for media (for info on the survey, look here) Roku Express 4K Plus review: The new go-to Roku … Read more

Intel Develops New Technique for Photorealistic Games

May 14, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say RoadtoVR reports on work done by Intel to use machine learning to boost the photorealism of generated ray-traced graphics using machine learning based on data from actual captures by a dashboard camera. The video is in the Cityscapes dataset. What We Think The system is still to slow for real time use … Read more

Webinar: The Five W’s of Holographic Displays – Part I of II

May 14, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

So what is a Holographic Display? Avalon Holographics will set the record straight beginning with the first of two webinars entitled: The Five W’s of Holographic Displays. This informative webinar takes place on June 2nd at 12pm Eastern Daylight Time. Part II will take place on June 29 at the same time. Join the webinar … Read more

SID Reveals Those behind the DIA Awards

May 14, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The SID has published more details and details of its Display Industry Annual Awards. It includes pictures of the teams involved. What We Think At one time, the Display of the Year award was not good news, early stage companies seemed to struggle after winning it, but for established companies, it is … Read more

TCL goes big with 85-inch XL Collection 4K and 8K Roku TVs

May 14, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has three new 85″ TVs in what it is calling its XL Collection. They are all based on the Roku TV platform. The three versions are: an UltraHD HDR set based on LCD. the 85S435 which is selling for $1,600, a low price for the size. A step-up version using FALD … Read more

Top-5 notebook vendors see combined shipments drop 4% in April

May 14, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes said that the top five notebook brands (excluding Apple) saw shipments down 4% in April, despite strong demand from education and enterprise. The main issue was component shortages. HP is said to be tight on semiconductors and panels. Lenovo was down as a big education project in Japan, the Giga school … Read more

C|Net Tests Apple’s iPhone Colour Balance Feature

May 13, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple recently announced a system to use an iPhone to adjust the colour balance of a TV connected to an Apple TV box. CNet tested the system and found, basically, that if the TV is in a mode that is not intended to be accurate to D65 white point, it does generally … Read more