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Magnachip Enters Full-Scale Mass Production of High Frame Rate OLED DDIC for 5G Smartphones with QHD Displays

Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation announced that the Company has commenced full-scale mass production of its first 120Hz High Frame Rate (HFR) OLED display driver IC (DDIC) for QHD flexible displays, following the successful product release and initial production in 2020. The frame rate refers to the number of frames (images) displayed per second on the screen, … Read more

LEDs Fabricated on Silicon Chips

What They Say Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have developed a silicon chip with fully integrated LEDs that are said to be bright enough to enable state-of-the-art sensor and communication technologies. Working with GlobalFoundries, a group has developed a silicon LED (rather than a typical III-V material mix) that can produce enough … Read more

Samsung Kiosk Uses SoC + Tizen

What They Say Samsung Electronics has launched a Kiosk in the South Korean market, but which is intended to be available globally in the first half of the year. It will be sold via Fiserv Inc initially. There are three 24″ versions with different mountings – wall, free-standing and table. The operating software runs on … Read more

Apple TV: tvOS 14.5 to support both 24.000fps and 23.976fps

Apple Beta SW

What They Say FlatPanelsHD reports that tvOS 14.5 from Apple will support both 24.000 and 23.976 fps without frame dropping. Currently, showing movies generated at 24fps at the broadcasting frequency of 23.976 fps (a hangover from the analogue days), means a dropped frame every 41 seconds and reversing to show 23.967 content at 24fps means … Read more

New Planar UltraRes X Series Combines Superior Image Performance with Commercial Reliability

Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, unveiled Planar® UltraRes™ X Series, a line of 4K resolution (3840 x 2160) commercial-grade LCD displays featuring 700-nit brightness and a wide color gamut perfect for High Dynamic Range (HDR) content. Available in 75-inch, 85-inch and 100-inch sizes, Planar UltraRes X Series includes a 24×7 design and, when … Read more

Let Dave Know your View

What They Say Dave Haynes of Sixteen-Nine.net is running a survey on whether it makes sense to revive the Digital Signage Expo as a separate event after the pandemic, or whether to simply fold it in to the main Infocomm. He explains his point of view at the article link, or you can go here … Read more

Korean Cinemas Hired for Game Play

What They Say I reported when I visited the CineEurope show in 2018 that the market for private cinema rentals was a significant segment of the Chinese market – enough to justify an optimised system from Cinemeccanica. (CineEurope 2018 Roundup). Now, the BBC report, the trend has developed during the pandemic, to extend to other … Read more

Samsung SoC Displays Can Run AdMobilize Analytics

What They Say Sixteen-nine.net has reported that a company called AdMobilize has developed software integration to support audience analytics on Samsung’s SoC (System-on-Chip) digital signage powered by Tizen OS1. The DailyDOOH blog said that “Customers buying the latest Samsung Smart Signage powered by Tizen OS can now run AdMobilize’s audience analytics software without the need … Read more