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E Ink to Display Latest Innovations at Ceatec 2018

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E Ink said that it would have a wide range of applications of its technology on its booth at Ceatec, which takes place from October 16-19, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. FES Watch U, by Sony Corporation Digital Paper eNote device, by Sony Corporation GPS Watch U-350BS, by Seiko Epson Corp. Pomera DM30, Kakumiru mini eNote, … Read more

VueReal Receives $8.5 Million for MicroLED Development

VueReal, a developer of technologies for micro- and nano-devices, has received $8.5 million in funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, bringing its investment total to over $26 million. The company will use the funding to further develop its microLED technologies by expanding its Waterloo team and launching an advanced nano-technology centre. VueReal also will leverage … Read more

BOE Producing OLED Samples for Samsung Galaxy Watch?

BOE is nipping at the heels of Samsung Display and LG Display by creating OLED display samples for Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Watch, an anonymous industry source told ET News earlier this week. In the past, BOE has supplied LCD panels to Samsung, but this would mark the first occasion that Samsung has used BOE OLEDs. … Read more

Sharp Officially Announces First Smartphone with Flexible OLED

Sharp has formally announced its first smartphone to feature a flexible OLED display, the Aquos Zero, which will ship in Japan and Taiwan during the fourth quarter of 2018. The company first teased the handset at IFA 2018. Most of the specs that were being leaked back then have held true, apart from a slightly … Read more

The Trouble with HDR10

Yoeri Geutskens has updated his venn diagram which shows who is doing what in HDR. He has also written an interesting article that highlights that although HDR10 is well specified in terms of how content is created and transmitted (ST-2084 with ST-2086 static metadata, 10-bit colour and BT.2020 colour space), what happens when that data … Read more

Smartphones to Ship Under 1.5 Billion Units Worldwide in 2019

Digitimes Research predicts that global smartphone shipments will come in below 1.5 billion units in 2019, with Samsung, Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo remaining the top-six vendors worldwide. The top-four are expected to see shipment volumes of over 100 million units each, while fifth-place Oppo will see its shipments decline to below 90 … Read more

Study Finds 43% of OTT Apps Are Discarded After a Month

New data from mobile marketing and user engagement specialist CleverTap indicates that 43% of all OTT video apps are deleted a month after download. The study found that these apps see a churn rate of 67% during the first two weeks, while only 26% of users use them on at least three occasions within the … Read more

Viaccess-Orca Partners with RedSo for Android OTT STB Apps

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, announced that it has partnered with RedSo, a leading Asian mobile app development company, on an end-to-end OTT solution for pay-TV operators and service providers. Integration between RedSo’s Android-based user interface (UI) and VO’s TV Platform provides operators with … Read more

Viaccess-Orca Partners with RedSo on Android OTT Solution

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection and data solutions, has partnered with RedSo, an Asian mobile app development company, on an end-to-end OTT solution for pay-TV operators and service providers. VO says the integration between its TV platform and RedSo’s Android-based user interface will provide operators with a ready-made … Read more

Could Autonomous Cars be a Generation Away?

Again this week, we have no special reports, but I was at CES Unveiled in Paris yesterday and am at the Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l’Auto) today (the events ran together, which was convenient), although I have been stuck in the press room all day, writing and editing! However, I plan to get on … Read more

FSI Increases OLED Monitor Pricing

As we have reported, Sony has switched developments in its broadcast monitor business to LCD and would like to abandon OLED (although because of customer demand, it is continuing to supply for now), but the company seems to have stopped supplying the one or two customers that bought just the panel from the firm. One … Read more

tvONE CORIOmaster Drives Europe’s Largest Ceiling Mounted LED Screen In Iconic New London Development

tvONE (tvone.com), a leading designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge video and multimedia processing equipment, are proud to announce that a CORIOmaster mini video wall processor is driving a spectacular 180m² LED screen housed in the ceiling of a passageway running through the centre of Fen Court, a new 15-storey office and retail development in the … Read more