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Philips Professional Display Solutions and Nenda to Launch Next Generation TV Experience for the Hotel Market

Philips Professional Display Solutions is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Stockholm-based TV innovator, Nenda, to bring a new streaming service for hotel rooms that will revolutionise the way guests watch TV. This exciting collaboration will bring the powerful features of Philips Professional Display Solutions’ MediaSuite Pro TV –Android-powered, Google certified and with Chromecast … Read more

QDs on chip are here… but not there yet

Quantum Dots on chip (LED chip that is) is a technology that I’ve written about before, in 2018 and 2017. For those of you not familiar with this approach, it’s basically akin to replacing the phosphor in traditional down-converted LEDs (Blue + phosphor = white). Sounds simple, right? Historically speaking, this has been difficult for … Read more

Developed Micro LED Display

Japan Display Inc. announced that it has developed a prototype micro LED display, which is a powerful candidate for the next generation displays, which will be exhibited, as a reference, at the 29th LCD, organic EL and sensor technology “FINTECH JAPAN 2019” exhibition, held in Makuhari Messe between December 4th (Wed.) and the 6th (Fri.). … Read more

World’s Biggest Duty Free Area Chooses Absen

Set to become the world’s largest airport, the US$11bn (€9.6bn) Istanbul Airport is located on the outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey, where it will eventually handle up to 200 million passengers a year – eclipsing the former Ataturk Airport. At the heart of the new airport terminal, is the newly constructed Unifree Duty-Free area, which at … Read more

Samsung Looking Beyond QD OLED

There has been a lot of discussion about why Samsung is going for QDOLED technology, given the complications, the technology risk and the amount of money involved. Several times I have found myself thinking “They must know something that we don’t”. It turns out that they certainly do – as was detailed in an article … Read more

Samsung Fellows’ Study on the Potential Commercialization of QLEDs Published in Leading Science Journal, ‘Nature’

A duo of researchers and fellows at Samsung Electronics have, in an industry-first, proved the potential of Quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) for commercial purposes in a new study. On November 27 (London), this study on the commercialization of QLEDs was published by Nature, the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. The authors of this groundbreaking … Read more

BenQ Launches Cross-Platform Interactive Flat Panel Series for the Workplace

Leading display manufacturer BenQ launches the Duoboard, a platform-agnostic all-in-oneInteractive Flat Panel (IFP) display series designed for the modern meeting room. Creating aninteractive meeting room experience for any device, this flexible display is perfect for corporateenvironments. Available in two sizes, 65-inch (CP6501K) and 86-inch (CP8601K) with 4K resolution, the Duoboardfeatures BenQ’s new Collaboration+ suite of … Read more

Commercial Refresh Ahead of Windows 7 EOS Will Continue to Keep EMEA PC Market Afloat Despite CPU Shortages, Says IDC

IDC

Shipments of EMEA traditional PCs (a combination of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) will total 72.1 million in 2019, a 0.6% YoY growth, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). While weakness in the consumer segment will continue to constrict overall growth, commercial strength will keep the EMEA PC market afloat. “The Western European PC market continued … Read more

Worldwide Spending on Augmented and Virtual Reality Expected to Reach $18.8 Billion in 2020, According to IDC

Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to be $18.8 billion in 2020, an increase of 78.5% over the $10.5 billion International Data Corporation (IDC) expects will be spent in 2019. The latest update to IDC’s Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide also shows that worldwide spending on AR/VR products … Read more

Huawei Edges out Samsung in Russian Smartphone Market’s Third Quarter, Says IDC

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In Q3 2019, the Russian smartphone market totaled 8.6 million units, representing a 2.2% decrease compared with the same quarter last year. Despite the recent buoyancy of the ruble, total smartphone market value declined by 3.1% in U.S. dollars to 2.0 billion. With the addition of feature phones, the total market size was 10.6 million … Read more

3Q 2019 TV Shipments Grow 16.8% QoQ Owing to Peak Season

The latest analysis from the WitsView research division of TrendForce shows that global TV shipment in 3Q19 reached 54.97 million units, a 16.8% growth QoQ and 1.9% decline YoY. As China-U.S. trade relations worsened in 2Q19, TV brands took on a speculative attitude towards stocking-up. This attitude completely changed with the imminent arrival, towards the … Read more