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Sharp/NEC and Signagram Enhance NEC MediaPlayer Through Ambitious Collaboration Partnership

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe one of the global market leaders in professional large format displays, has joined a strategic alliance with Signagam, a spin-off of Belgian digital signage company Kimeru. The partners have embarked on an ambitious global computing expansion that will see the Signagram software suite integrated on all screens featuring the NEC … Read more

Riot threatens to derail Wistron, Apple and India plans

What They Say Contract manufacturer Wistron Corp has suffered a riot at an iPhone factory in India, reportedly over unpaid wages, although the company had commissioned employment agencies to pay the workers, according to a Taiwanese businessman with knowledge of the situation. After the riots, Taiwanese sources say that Apple has suspended orders to Wistron. … Read more

Analyst: Will SVoDs replace pay-TV?

What They Say Advanced TV blog published an article based on a presentation by Tristan Veale of Futuresouce Consulting that sets out the competition between Pay TV ($127 billion in 2020) and SVoD ($55 billion in 2020) with SVoD growing rapidly. “Looking to transactional video, which includes physical disc sales as well as digital purchases … Read more

AOC Brazil Launches Smart TV Powered by ZEASN

ZEASN, the world’s leading provider of OTT and Smart TV solutions, announced the arrival of its Whale OS Turnkey Solution in Brazil. By partnering with TPV Group, one of the world’s leading monitor and LCD & LED TV manufacturers, along with being a consumer electronics key player in the field of audio-visual digital entertainment, the … Read more

Pasta-shaped structures explain chiral light emission in polymers

Chiral OLED

What They Say Scientists at Imperial College, London, have developed a way to make OLEDs that emit chiral light (efficiently polarised. The material is based on ‘fusilli pasta’-shaped layers which can be created using achiral polymers with ‘just a pinch of chiral additives’. What We Think Art wrote about earlier work from Imperial on chiral … Read more

Interesting Links for W/E 25th December 2020

Every week, we see interesting articles where we can’t really add value or they are just interesting and not related to displays, so we put them in a round-up list. French startup is preparing its curved CMOS image sensor for mass production Apple targets self-driving car by 2024 Siggraph Interviews Dr Jon Peddie MGM for … Read more

New Vision Display Introduces New Outdoor Digital Signage Product Line, Sun Vision Display™

NVD Logo

ROSEVILLE, CA – September 1, 2020 – New Vision Display (“NVD”) is pleased to announce its new outdoor digital signage product line, Sun Vision Display™. Sun Vision Display panels are built to address two of the most common challenges in outdoor LCDs: Poor sunlight readability (due to insufficient lighting) and high-power consumption (from high-brightness backlights). … Read more

Leaked Photos Reveal Possible Lenovo AR Glasses Ahead of CES 2021

What They Say Some leaked photos have been published of new AR glasses from Lenovo. The glasses may use the ‘ThinkReality’ sub-brand. It was unclear if the glasses are just another prototype or a pre-production design. There are a number of images at the linked address. What We Think Lenovo have been working hard in … Read more

ATSC 3.0 set for cable TV test

What They Say Pearl TV and brodcasters around Phoenix, Arizona, have started testing Nextgen TV over limited cable infrastructure, collaborating with Comcast. ATSC 3.0 is being used to blend OTA and OTT content. The initial stages in the collaboration will develop the technical capability to pass along NEXTGEN TV’s 4K Ultra HD content through cable … Read more