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The Topic of the Week is China

by Bob Raikes

We had lots of market data in MDM this week, with smartphone and tablet data being released and although there was lots in LDM, especially because of the report from Cinemacon, but there wasn’t …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Editorial| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 17

Good News From Korea

by Bob Raikes

This week, as I write my editorial, there is a lot of news coverage of the apparent rapprochement between the two halves of Korea. It’s great to see some break in hostilities, although the …

Tags:China| Editorial| Investment| Korea| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 16

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Exploiting the Best of Broadcast and OTT

by Bob Raikes

This was a very uneven week in balance between the Large and Mobile Display Monitor. LDM this week has two event reports (NAB and ProLight and Sound), while MDM is a bit thinner than …

Tags:Broadcast| Editorial| France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 15

Can Less be More?

by Bob Raikes

Once again, I’m in an airport on my way home from a trip to an event, in this case the ProLight and Sound event in Frankfurt. I took the chance to also check in …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 14

VR Progress is Slow

by Bob Raikes

We had a short week, after a public holiday on Monday and I spent some time in France at the Laval Virtual show (much of it hanging around for trains as there was a …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Training| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 13

US Consumers Deprived of Best Smartphone?

by Bob Raikes

We’ve published a day early this week as we have a public holiday on Friday in most of Europe. This week, there wasn’t one big story that dominated the news. Still, we managed to …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Security| Smartphones| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 12

OLEDs in Automotive – Or…..?

by Bob Raikes

Another week and another trade show. This week, I had (in every sense of the word) a flying visit to the Passenger Terminal Expo show in Stockholm. I was undecided whether to go, as …

Tags:Automotive| Editorial| JOLED| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 11

The Biggest VR Display?

by Bob Raikes

This was one of those weeks when there wasn’t a lot of news that was suitable for the front page. Still, we found plenty to talk about. I had hoped to get the report …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Event Overload At Display Monitor HQ

by Bob Raikes

I’m pleased to be home today, after six days at Mobile World (including press days), a quick trip to Vienna for ECR (report in LDM this week), a visit to the Air Traffic Congress …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 25 - Issue 09

5G Is Everywhere – But Who is Looking at ROI?

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this editorial on the flight back to London from MWC in Barcelona and just grateful that it is more or less on time – and flying – as earlier today, both London …

Tags:5G| Automotive| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 08

Thoughts on Display Improvements

by Bob Raikes

We have a short issue this week, especially LDM as we were flat out finishing the very lengthy report from ISE 2018. There was very little of interest to MDM readers, but we did …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 25 - Issue 07

Looking Forward to MWC

by Bob Raikes

This week has seen lots of market data, especially in MDM, as analysts frantically worked on Q4 data and the 2017 results. I was doing the same as we hurried to finalise the Q4 …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 06