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One of the most predictive technology conferences today is the world-renown SXSW conference. On three occasions, I have been chosen by crowdsourced voting to be a speaker. This year, due to the Rona, the traditional face-to-face SXSW Conference & Festival is being replaced, at least in part, with a completely virtual version called SXSW Online. … Read more
Firefly, the company leveraging taxi and rideshare vehicles to build a street-level digital media network, today announced the launch of the industry’s first Tesla-top advertising campaigns. Facilitated through Firefly’s partnership with tech-enabled vehicle fleet operator Drive Sally, the campaigns elevate taxi-top advertising to entice premium brands into the category, while supporting zero-emission transportation. Firefly’s first … Read more
What They Say Nanosys has supported a YouTube interview of Bob O’Brien by Brian Berkeley (once of Apple and Samsung and a past SID President, but now a consultant) on YouTube to cover a number of topics, especially news from CES and trends such as miniLED. It’s also available as a podcast. What We Think … Read more
What They Say I reported on the Hisense developments in Laser TV recently (Hisense is Bullish as Laser TV Moves to RGB) and noted claims by Hisense about market development and so I followed up with PMA Research, who are established friends of ours in projector market research (and whose research I have been writing … Read more
What They Say Ex-SID Marketing Director, Ex-VP of Marketing for E Ink and all round display industry go-to-guy, Sri Peruvemba published an article through Forbes of key display trends. Here are his 10 Trends for non-profits (an unusual angle!) Folding phones with new TADF OLED materials Go micro with AR/VR Digital signage Adopt automated kiosks … Read more
What They Say Barco reported sales down by 28.9% for the year of 2020 to €770 million and orders down by 32.3% over the period. The year end order book was down 13% on 2019. EBITDA dropped from €153 million to €53.6 million. As a result the full year saw a net loos of €4.4 … Read more
What They Say AVCesar.com reported that it would re-introduce OLED TVs to Europe although the X8F Series has first been announced in Japan only in 48″ and 55″ sizes. What We Think This story reminded me that I meant to mention that one of the technologies missing from CES this year was dual panel LCD … Read more
According to GfK, 20 percent more smart TVs were sold in Germany in 2020 than in the previous year (5.5 million), with around 6.6 million TV sets sold. The share of smart TV sets that enable the use of apps or catch-up TV via HbbTV and the internet continued to rise, reaching 89 per cent … Read more
What They Say In digging around about the new Samsung Display OLED materials (Samsung Display Unveils New Low-power OLED Display for Smartphones), reported to be an M11 OLED materials set by The Elec, we found an article from ET News in August 2020, quoting Stone Partners, that identified Samsung SDI, Duksan Neolux and Doosan Solas … Read more
INFiLED, leading global manufacturer of LED displays, announces the opening of its EMEA office and showroom in the center of Barcelona, Spain further expanding the company’s presence across Europe, Middle East and Africa. This investment proves INFiLED’s commitment to the ongoing growth in the LED market to meet the varied and growing needs and expectations … Read more
What They Say Infiled, the maker of LED displays, said that it had opened an office and showroom in the centre of Barcelona. What We Think Barcelona is an attractive destination. That’s one of the reasons that I gave when I talked to ISE when it decided to relocate away from Amsterdam a couple of … Read more
For the second time in six years, an Emmy® Award for groundbreaking work in television video quality will come to the SSIMWAVE® team. SSIMWAVE is being honored with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for work in Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization. In … Read more
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