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LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 18

by Tom Allen

DisplayLite will show a new 55″ UltraHD procap touch table at the NEC Showcase 2016 (18th – 19th May, London). It will be based on an NEC display. Touch screen specialist Distec can now …

RTP Promises Euro 2016 in 4k

by Tom Allen

Portuguese broadcaster RTP has announced that it will launch an UltraHD channel this year, in preparation for the Euro 2016 football tournament. Eight matches will be shown live, including the opening and closing games …

IHS Analysts Look at VR & Media Trends

by Bob Raikes

IHS held an analyst’s briefing meeting at the end of the recent TV Connect event in London and we went along to see what the company had to say. It was a short event, …

IDTechEx Show Roundup

by Tom Allen

DuPont Teijin Films makes the organic films behind the flexible displays from, for instance, FlexEnable. Currently these require conventional (rigid) transistors, as DuPont’s are not ‘smart’ enough to do more than a very basic …

OLED Lighting is a Growth Market

by Tom Allen

Marek Ramsi is with LG Display’s lighting division, and discussed OLEDs for lighting. He began by showing a video from LG’s stand at the recent Light & Building conference in Frankfurt, where the firm …

Bath Chooses Sony for Reliability

by Tom Allen

Sony’s 3LCD laser projectors were chosen by the University of Bath for installation in lecture halls, and Sony has published a video case study of the work (http://tinyurl.com/hycl99o). An efficient and low-maintenance solution, which …

Public Displays Will Rebound in 2016

by Tom Allen

IHS expects public display shipments to rebound this year, with recovering regional economies and a rising number of large projects. Unit shipments will grow 9.3% YoY to around 3 million units, and revenues will …

Tags:Digital Signage| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 17

DVIGear Expands to UK

by Tom Allen

DVIGear has opened an office in the UK. The distribution office, in London, will be run by Steve Mattingly, who has previously worked at TVOne (as EMEA general manager, EMEA managing director and later …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 17

DEG: US Shows Strong UHD Demand

by Tom Allen

The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) has said that US consumer spending was ‘stable’ in Q1’16, at $4.6 billion. UltraHD adoption is rising quickly: more than 1.5 million UHD TVs were sold in the quarter …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Costco Offers Phone/TV Deal

by Tom Allen

In the USA, Costco is offering a free 32″ Samsung TV to customers who buy a Galaxy S7 smartphone. A $25 Costco gift card and 5,200mAh battery pack will also be supplied. The offer …

Samsung Insists ‘No Plans’ for Large OLED

by Tom Allen

Samsung has confirmed that it has no plans to introduced an OLED TV in the near future. President of visual display, Kim Hyun-seok, said this week, “[N]ow when little progress has been made on …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OLED TVs| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Cynora Raises Blue OLED Lifetime

by Tom Allen

Cynora GmbH of Germany, which works with TADF materials, has made significant progress with its efficient blue material in the last six months. Image: OLED-InfoSince 2015, Cynora has been developing organic blue dopants for …