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US Pay-TV Sees Low Growth in 2014

by Tom Allen

The 10 top US pay-TV operators lost 20,600 subscribers collectively in Q4’14, according to Informitiv’s Multiscreen Index. This compares to a loss of 45,000 in Q3. Despite these results, the companies gained 82,000 subscribers …

Tags:AT&T| Comcast| DirecTV| Dish Network| Large Display Monitor| Netflix| Pay TV| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Pay-DTT Rises, But IPTV Rules Croatia

by Tom Allen

According to HAKOM, the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency, pay-DTT was the fastest-growing segment of the Croatian TV market last year, with subscriptions rising 52.5% YoY to 47,900. However, IPTV had the most …

Tags:Cable| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Satellite| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 22 - Issue 10

Sharp Can Supply Memory LCD

by Bob Raikes

Jeremy Lock is from Sharp’s R&D lab in Oxford and he looks at all sizes of displays, but at the conference he talked about small displays for wearables. There are a lot of questions …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 09| Wearables

08 LG Display Can Reduce LCD Refresh Without Flicker

by Bob Raikes

Hee Eun Lee is from LG and she spoke about power reduction in mobile display devices by reducing refresh rates For smartphones, hardware is improving, but the power consumption remains an issue. Refreshing the …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 09

07 Fraunhofer Working on QD LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Christian Ippen is from the Fraunhofer IAP and he also talked about QDs, which the Fraunhofer is researching. His introduction covered some of the ground that 3M had been over. The Fraunhofer uses an …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Fraunhofer| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 22 - Issue 09

06 QDs in Cars Have to be Cadmium Free

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Michael Patz from 3M Germany and he talked about quantum dots (QDs). QDs are semiconductors that act as phosphors. The tiny particles, around 3nm, will emit pure green light at …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Automotive| Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 09| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

05 LEDs Need a Lot of Power and EMF is an Issue

by Bob Raikes

The afternoon session was kicked off by Francis Cagney of ND Satcom, who had looked at the issues of trying to drive a FullHD LED display. He explained how LED walls are made of …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 22 - Issue 09

04 In Cars, Augmented Reality with HUDs is Next Step

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker in the session was Prashanth Halady of Robert Bosch, where he is the Director of the Center of Competence, HMI (Human Machine Interfaces). Bosch’s business covers automation, consumer and automotive products …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Electronic Displays 2015| Gesture Recognition| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

03 User Experience is the Key

by Bob Raikes

The third speaker of the morning session was Franz Koller of User Interface Design GmbH (UID), who looks at the “user experience” and who has been working in user testing since he worked on …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| HMI| Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

02 Hendy Says 2015 Will be a Bad Year for Display Suppliers

by Bob Raikes

Ian Hendy of Hendy Consulting then spoke. Hendy has a consulting business with David Barnes of Bizwits and spends his time consulting for companies that want to be in the display business somewhere. The …

Tags:business| Display Supply & Demand| Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 22 - Issue 09

3DIcon Describes New Medium for Volumetric Displays

by Chris Chinnock

3DIcon is a technology company that is focused on their CSpace display technology. Recently, the company published a report in the Journal of Display Technology that describes a new liquid medium in which a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10| Volumetric Displays

01 Electronic Displays 2015 Hits Record Attendance

by Bob Raikes

WProf Blankenbach at ED 2015e went along to the annual Electronic Display conference in Nuremberg run by Prof. Karlheinz Blankenbach alongside the Embedded World Exhibition. Prof Blankenbach started by saying that the conference, which …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09