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Maverick AV Solutions Announces Distribution Partnership with Avocor

Maverick AV Solutions, a specialised solution business of Tech Data (Nasdaq: TECD), announced a partnership with Avocor to bring its range of interactive displays, including the new Windows Collaboration Displays to the European market. Maverick will help Avocor expand its reach for its interactive display solutions line, including the all-new F series products. Later this … Read more

Maverick AV Solutions Announces Distribution Partnership with Avocor

Maverick AV Solutions, a specialised solution business of Tech Data, is partnering with Avocor to bring its range of interactive displays to the European market, including the all-new F series of products and, later this year, Windows Collaboration Displays, which were announced at Microsoft Inspire in June. Maverick will begin distributing the new F50 series … Read more

Apple’s New iPhones Will Give OLED a Boost

Apple introduced three new models of iPhones on September 12, 2018. Two of those models came with OLED displays and one with LCD. Apple’s star power has been setting smart phone display industry trends over the years. The new introductions may also have a significant impact. The OLED display in the iPhone Xs is very … Read more

DSCC Releases Annual Foldable Display Technology and Market Report:  Rapid Growth Expected as Costs and Prices Fall and Availability Improves

Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) has released the industry’s first report dedicated to foldable display technology and the foldable display market. This report took 9 months to produce, provides deep insight into what it will take to commercialize foldable displays and forecasts foldable display yields, costs, capacity, shipments, prices, revenues, area and more. The report … Read more

DSCC Predicts 173% Shipment CAGR for Foldable Displays

Display Supply Chain Consultants has released a report dedicated to the foldable display market and its technology. The report projects that the foldable display market will start out slow, reaching 3.1 million units in 2019, with Samsung Electronics and Huawei expected to launch foldable smartphones in the first quarter of 2019. After 2019, growth will … Read more

Samsung PIDs Now Available from Crystal Display Systems

Stretched professional information display (PID) panels from Samsung are now available from UK distributor Crystal Display Systems (CDS). The panels come in 29″ (1920 × 540) and 37″ (1920 × 540) and are manufactured using native glass sizes, rather than being machine-cut and reassembled. CDS said that the main benefits of these panels are high … Read more

Dolby Vision Gathering Support

Dolby was not showing anything new in its video and Dolby Vision technology, but was concentrating on highlighting the adoption of the technology which is now being supported by 18 different consumer electronics brands and there are now sets from €350 upwards that support the protocol. The adoption by Apple is significant and at both … Read more

IBC 2018 Roundup

ABox42 of Germany told use that it has a new STB in its M Series, the M35 which has support for UltraHD and is configured with Verimatrix Ultra Security. The company told us that although Android is getting a lot of support, Google is only interested in big operators at the moment and one of … Read more

Arte Conducting HDR Tests

SES held a series of Tech Talks in its meeting room suite up in the balcony of Hall 1. These are usually interesting and the one we went to was no exception. The topic was the lessons learned in trying some HDR productions and transmissions by Arte, the Franco/German public service broadcaster. The main speaker … Read more

Creatives Want More – of Everything!

Christie had a big screen demonstration that compared Xenon-based projection with a full laser unit. Unfortunately, because of a schedule clash, we didn’t get to see the different demonstration, but got into the session just as we got to questions. Brian Claypool of Christie (VP Product Management, Global Cinema – Christie Digital Systems) moderated the … Read more

Sony Moves from OLED for Monitoring

Sony held its usual press event as the first of the show itself on its booth. I remember when the firm switched from projection to LCD as the main display for the event, but this year it used the Sony Crystal LED display. This mostly looked really great, but in some of the early videos, … Read more

LG Display Investment in Nanosys is Confirmed

We reported recently that LG had invested in QD developer and maker, Nanosys. We confirmed this as LG Display recently made the following statement in an SEC filing (in August). “In May 2018, we acquired 5,699,954 voting common shares of Nanosys Inc. for W10,732 million. As of June 30, 2018, our percentage ownership interest in … Read more