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Is the End of IDF an Inflection Point?

by Bob Raikes

Unusually for the last few weeks, we have no event reports this week, although there is a lot of news in the build up to the NAB event and with already some activity starting …

CE Companies Move Away from CE

by Bob Raikes

Our front page story this week is about Toshiba and its travails. It’s not the first of the big Japanese CE companies to get into trouble, most of them have been in trouble over …

Another Inflection Point for Samsung

by Bob Raikes

There was no question about the Samsung story going on the front page. I regularly talk about ‘inflection points’. Cinema is at one this week. At Infocomm in 2015, one of the LED suppliers …

DeX Brings Mobile to the Desktop

by Bob Raikes

This week saw the delayed release of the Samsung S8. It’s, no question, a slick device that does a lot, but it’s hard to see many S7 owners thinking it would be worth an …

VR and AR are Everywhere You Look

by Bob Raikes

This week we seem to have lots of stories about VR and with more to come, as I was at Laval Virtual this week. We’ll have our report next week, mainly in MDM. In …

Lots More Companies from China

by Bob Raikes

I find myself in an aircraft again, with no internet access, so I can’t do much about all the articles I need to get edited and written, so I thought I’d write my editorial. …

Tags:China| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Almost Caught Up, on News, at Least

by Bob Raikes

Phew… We managed to get our report out on MWC and also the ECR (European Congress on Radiology) report for LDM done and are very close to ‘being caught up’, at least on news. …

Power Is Nothing Without Batteries

by Bob Raikes

I’m writing this editorial on the plane on the way back from the MWC event in Barcelona. My tablet is having to be used with its ‘hunt and peck’ keyboard. Although I’m usually very …

Sometimes the News is the System, not the Display

by Bob Raikes

We managed to get the ISE report done this week for our LDM subscribers, while trying to get ready for our Mobile World Congress trip from Sunday. This is a busy time of year, …

JPMorgan Negative on Panel Makers

by Bob Raikes

The flood of press releases has switched from ISE to MWC over the last week. The MWC event has a very high quality attendance (it costs around €800 just to walk the show floor!) …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 06

ISE & Sharp

by Bob Raikes

Apologies for the late shipment of the newsletters this week. We tried to keep up while dealing with the ISE overload, but this year the event went on until Friday afternoon and we needed …

Pausing for Breath Between BETT & ISE

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have included the BETT report for readers of the LDM newsletter. As I mentioned in the report, I was surprised that there wasn’t a lot more VR technology at the event …