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Where Does SkyQ Leave HFR?

by Bob Raikes

This week’s issue got me thinking about developments in TV. I was particularly interested in the Sky announcement and I confess that is partly because I am a customer of Sky. Sky is incredibly …

Tags:Editorial| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SAT>IP| Sky| Vol 22 - Issue 46

UltraHD Needs More Evidence of Productivity Gains

by Bob Raikes

As well as working on the issues of our newsletters, I spent quite a lot of time this week finalising the quarterly data that Meko (our publisher) provides on the European market for desktop …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 45| Windows

HP

HP Inc Gets Started

by Bob Raikes

This week, Tom was away so I was in the writing chair as well as editing. Combined with a trip to an Epson event about Colour Light Output (of which, more later), and a …

Tags:Editorial| HP Inc| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 22 - Issue 44

Apple & Money

by Bob Raikes

I was struck this week by a statistic highlighted by Statistica, that Apple has generated $53.4 billion in profits in the last year, making it the most profitable company of all time, with the …

Tags:Apple| Automotive| Editorial| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 43

LFDs and Mobiles

by Bob Raikes

Phew… Another busy week for the team. Chris was writing up Cedia, Tom was at a Lang event in Germany and I was in Dubai for Gitex, so there has been a lot of …

Tags:Beacons| Editorial| Gitex 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 42

IMDs at an Inflection Point

by Bob Raikes

This week, I spent some time with Sharp in Malta and had a chance to see the Big Pad large interactive display close up and in a demonstration of how it can be used …

Tags:Editorial| Interactive Displays| Interactive Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Meeting Rooms| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart Technologies Inc| Vol 22 - Issue 41

First Impressions of Windows 10

by Bob Raikes

This week, the topic of note was Microsoft. The company surprised everybody by showing its first ever notebook, and, like the Surface, the hardware seems very good. I have to say that I even …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 40| Windows

The Regulation Battle for Display Power

by Bob Raikes

Our front page this week in Large Display Monitor, covers a story that Samsung is alleged to have used a special technique to detect test material that is part of the standardised video stream …

Tags:Editorial| Europe| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| PDP| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 39

VW & Technology Cheating

by Bob Raikes

I’ve been back in the office this week as I needed to cover for some staff with vacation this week. So I have been “head down” with news. One of the big stories this …

Tags:Automotive| Display Industry| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Measurement| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Industry| Vol 22 - Issue 38

The Dust Settles on IFA & IBC

by Bob Raikes

Once again, I’m writing this editorial with a sense of relief. After twelve days at trade shows in the last seventeen, the words are very nearly finished and our IBC report will be published …

Tags:Broadcast| Dolby Vision| Editorial| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 37

IFA, IBC and Broadcast

by Bob Raikes

Phew! The IFA report and most of this week’s main issue are done and I’ve just got on the train to the airport to fly out for the first IBC event, this evening. There …

Tags:Broadcast| Editorial| IBC 2015| IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 22 - Issue 36

The Battle for Eyeballs Goes On…

by Bob Raikes

We’re just “clearing the decks” ready for the annual dive into IFA and IBC. For those of our readers that haven’t attended them, IFA is the European equivalent of CES and is followed immediately …

Tags:Automotive| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 34