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Still A Challenge Left for Display Makers

by Bob Raikes

We’re just at the end of the ISE report so we’ve probably hit our peak workload for the year. We got our quarterly data out before and just after ISE and this weekend we’re …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sunlight Readable Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 06

Thoughts About Sharp from ISE

by Bob Raikes

This week we have a combined issue of Large and Mobile Display Monitor as nearly all the European team has been on the show floor at ISE in Amsterdam and I’m writing this in …

Tags:Editorial| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 05

VR Should be for UberGeeks

by Bob Raikes

I saw this editorial in Jon Peddie’s Techwatch newsletter. I know how to save the VR market It’s being overhyped, and that will ultimately drive consumers away—I have a plan “Commentators from all corners— …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 04

WiGIG Docking Options Developing Slowly

by Bob Raikes

This week, I have been thinking at times about wireless display technology. As long term readers will know, I have been saying for some time that the eventual desktop system for all but those …

Tags:DisplayLink| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 03| Wi-Fi| WiDi| WiGIG

An Inflection Point for Large Touch Displays?

by Bob Raikes

We’ve finally got to the end of our CES report. It highlights how much of CES is being taken over by the automotive field and how much concentration there was on AR and VR. …

Tags:Cima Nanotech| Editorial| FlatFrog| Infrared Touch| Large Display Monitor| Metal Mesh| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 02

The Interest is in the Details at CES

by Bob Raikes

We’ve had a number of “balls in the air” this week as we have been pressing on with our CES report while trying to catch up on the news for the last couple of …

Tags:CES 2016| Consumer Electronics Industry| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Thanks to all….

by Bob Raikes

I’m finalising this issue as we close in on the New Year celebrations. After about a week of family visits and entertaining – I think I’m looking forward to some peace and quiet, although …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Apple “Steady as she goes” in the Year(s) Ahead

by Bob Raikes

We have a shorter issue this week as the Western world winds down towards the holiday. European business will be closed from today until the opening of CES on January 4th, although the Display …

Tags:Apple| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 51

Hannstar & CPT Illustrate the Effects of “Fungibility”

by Bob Raikes

This week we feature two stories that highlight how far down CPT and Hannstar are on a year on year basis. That reflects a range of problems at the moment for the panel industry. …

Tags:CPT| Editorial| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 50

49 and Counting…

by Bob Raikes

This is the first of our “bonus” issues in 2015, #49. Since we started back in 1994, we have always said that we produce “a minimum of 48 issues per year” which was to …

Tags:CES 2016| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 49

Samsung, Cameras and Brands

by Bob Raikes

This week, we report on the withdrawal from the UK digital camera market by Samsung, which follows on from a story we spotted recently that the firm had dropped out of selling cameras in …

Tags:Cameras| Editorial| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 48

LG Display Takes A Step to G9.X

by Bob Raikes

It’s Black Friday, again and I’m sitting down to write my editorial on a Friday, as I usually do. However, I’m not going to cover the event this year, as just as we were …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 22 - Issue 47