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The Connected Car at CES 2017

by Ken Werner

Although autonomous vehicles are grabbing most of the attention in the general press, the industry is just as obsessed with the connected car. Connectivity is required for the safest and most efficient full-automation systems, …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03

The Return of the Aftermarket

by Ken Werner

In the final presentation at the Consumer Telematics Conferance, held at the out-of-the-way Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on January 4 (the day before the CES exhibits opened), Roger Lanctot of Strategy …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 03

CES Highlights OLEDs, UHD and Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Phew…. We’ve just got to the end phase of our CES report production. Of course, as we clear back our systems, we’ll find other stories that got missed in the deluge, but we’ll catch …

Tags:CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Visteon Impresses with HUDs, OLEDs and …. S3D

by Bob Raikes

Visteon is one of the biggest suppliers of instrumentation and consoles for vehicles that was spun off from Ford in 2000 and we first met them at CES in We had a tour around …

Tags:Automotive| Autostereo 3D| CES 2017| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

CES 2017 Automotive Round-Up

by Ken Werner

At CES, the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center is the center of things automotive, with driving demos being held in the so-called Central Plaza near the Monorail station. Many of the …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Breakfast with Continental

by Ken Werner

Continental Automotive GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) is one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive components, electronic subsystems, and tires. During the company’s Press Day press conference, its spokesman made several interesting points. The company, …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Samsung Refreshes A Series Phones – boosts QD Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Samsung refreshed its A3/A5/A7 range of smartphones at CES. They all have Super AMOLED displays in 4.7″ (HD), 5.2″ (FHD) and 5.5″ (FHD) and feature 3D glass with a metal frame. They use A-53 …

Tags:CES 2017| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Samsung Ties up with Calman

by Chris Chinnock

One of the key messages themes from Samsung, and I suspect will be for the whole TV industry in 2017, was color volume over color gamut. Color volume takes into account the color performance …

Tags:CES 2017| Display Calibration| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Portrait Displays| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 03| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Optoma Aggressive with Projectors for Consumers

by Bob Raikes

Optoma was meeting channel partners in a suite in the Westgate to show its planned products for the home market.The company was keen to point out that the products at the event are for …

Tags:CES 2017| DLP Projectors| Home Cinema| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| UST Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Redux Wants to Bring Display Surfaces to Life

by Bob Raikes

We met with Redux, a company that is based in the UK, in Cambridge and is working on sound and haptics. It describes its technology as ‘bringing surfaces to life’. The company was set …

Tags:audio| CES 2017| Haptics| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 02

VR Motion Tracking at CES 2017

by Steve Sechrist

VR is going through its own evolution and firms are looking to solve some interesting problems as we move closer to a suspended belief experience and enter the truly virtual world of computer generated …

Tags:CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02