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How to Best Use Flexible OLEDs?

by Bob Raikes

This week’s issues are a little late – apologies for that, but we hope we’ve finally caught up after IFA and IBC. This week we have quite a lot of stories in Mobile Display …

SVoD-only households booming

by Bob Raikes

Ampere Analysis of the UK, which has a number of analysts from the previous Screen Digest that was taken over by IHS, said that the number of households globally that that only have SVOD …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Blueboat and Cube Sign Distribution Deal

by Isaac Oburu

Bullboat is now distributing Cube’s pocket projectors in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Sharp Commits to OLED Pilot Lines

by Bob Raikes

Sharp said that $570 million, part of the money that Foxconn committed to future investment in Sharp when it took over the business, will be spent on building two pilot OLED manufacturing lines in …

Tags:Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Himax Hosts President Tsai Ing-Wen with AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

During a visit by Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-Wen, Himax, a fabless supplier of display drivers, showed the latest technology that Himax is developing in AR and VR. The company claims that it has already …

First Study on Effects on Vision of HMDs Shows Little Impact

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Korea University College of Medicine in Seoul presented the results of the first ever study (reported by Healio Ocular Surgery News and published in the Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus) on the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Human Visual System (HVS)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Samsung Boosts Smartwatch Target

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is widely reported to have increased its target for sales of its Galaxy S3 Watch which will start to ship in Q4. Reports have said that the company hopes to ship five million …

Note 7 to Go Back on Sale

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has restarted supplying Galaxy Note 7 in Korea, from the 28th of September, although sales are not expected to resume so quickly in Europe. Reports say that 80% of the defective units affected …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 38| warranty

Qualcomm Could Acquire NXP Semiconductors

by Yvette Raikes

There have been several recent acquisitions in the chip industry, and another is widely rumoured to be on the cards although neither company will comment. Qualcomm is said to be in talks about buying …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Pixvana Reveals 10K VR Video Player and Publishing Platform ‘Spin’

by Bob Raikes

Pixvana, which is developing cloud-based content creation and has a range of playback software for 360º video, has released its “Spin” platform for publishing and streaming. It also said that it plans to release …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Less Live TV is Watched in in Holland

by Yvette Raikes

Dutch viewers watch, on average, 287 minutes (almost 5 hours) of video, but only 110 minutes of this (38%) is live TV. However growth is slowing in the number of households adding extra services …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netherlands| Vol 23 - Issue 38

HP Promotes Workstations & Monitors

by Bob Raikes

HP had a meeting room to promote its workstations and monitors for use in content creation for the broadcast industry. We heard about the development of the DreamColor products by HP. Disney was a …