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Macro and Micro Trends in Conflict

by Bob Raikes

This week we bring readers of the Large Display Monitor our report on the ISE event in Amsterdam last week. I’m deep into forecasting for our quarterly data services and preparing for the Nuremberg …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Early Thoughts from ISE 2015

by Bob Raikes

The ISE show was something of a triumph. The organisers had over 50,000 pre-registered visitors from all over Europe and the show was busy and very well attended. Although some exhibitors were grumpy about …

Tags:BenQ| Editorial| ISE 2015| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Optoma| Pro AV| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 07

Technical “Fun” and the UltraHD Logo

by Bob Raikes

This has been one of those “techie” weeks, when technology intervened to cause disruption. On Monday morning, the “five minutes” that our power supply needed switching off so that the power company could give …

Tags:DigitalEurope| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 06

LCD Supply Demand

Steady as We Go for Panel Supply

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have published our report on the BETT show which took place at the end of last week and we’ve got into the serious build up for ISE. It’s a busy time …

Tags:AUO| BOE| Display Supply & Demand| Editorial| Innolux| Investment| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Capacity| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 05

A New Publishing Rhythm and Thoughts on BETT

by Bob Raikes

We’ve just about got back onto our normal publishing rhythm this week, thanks to a huge effort by the team – thanks to them. The CES report was by far the largest report that …

Tags:BETT 2015| CES 2015| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD| Vol 22 - Issue 04

CES 2015 a Tipping Point for OTT/Streaming Video

by Bob Raikes

Phew!!!  Last year, I thought our CES report was comprehensive – it ran to 48 pages. However, this year, the report has swollen to 80 pages as we have boosted our coverage of a …

Tags:Dish Network| Editorial| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Streaming Video| Vol 22 - Issue 03| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Samsung Displays Sets the Future for Tablets

by Bob Raikes

This week, most of the team was at CES in Las Vegas, so we were unable to get a full issue out of both our newsletters, so we’ve created a combined issue, rather than …

Tags:AMOLED| CES 2015| Editorial| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 02

A Look Back on 2014

by Bob Raikes

First, I want to set out our plans for the holiday season. There will be a break next week (26th December) and the next full issue of the newsletter will be on 2nd January, …

Tags:business| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 50

Macroeconomics in Russia & Germany

by Raverstead

I’ve spent the last two days in Munich and I’m writing this 343 on the late Easyjet flight home. I was thinking over the last couple of days of attendance at the Fujitsu Forum …

Tags:Editorial| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Macroeconomics| Mobile Display Monitor| Russia| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Samsung & Platforms

by Raverstead

I thought that I had written recently about the topic that I wanted to cover today, but looking back through my recent 343s, it seems not! We have covered Samsung a lot in recent …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Samsung Beamer Rolls Out

by Raverstead

This week, I saw a new app on my Galaxy S4, apparently pushed after a recent software upgrade. Apparently, it was included with the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Note 3 and works on the …

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Thoughts on Black Friday

by Bob Raikes

One of our lead stories this week is about Black Friday. We first used the phrase “Black Friday” in the newsletter in 1997 in the context of a sales day after Thanksgiving. Interestingly, our …

Tags:Black Friday| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 48