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Consumer VR Interest High, Awareness Low

by Tom Allen

Despite extensive media coverage, as many as two-thirds of US consumers are unaware of virtual reality as a technology, according to Horizon Media. Although awareness is low, more than a third (36%) of the …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 11

HDR Coming for DirectX

by Tom Allen

Microsoft announced that it will implement HDR support in the DirectX 12 API at GDC 2016. A timescale was not provided or details of what will be included.

Big Battery Expected for HTC 10

by Tom Allen

Notorious tipster Evan Blass has tweeted (@EVLeaks) that the upcoming HTC 10 smartphone will have what he terms a ‘Super LCD 5’ display, rather than AMOLED. The phone will also feature a 3,000mAh battery. …

eMagin Result 18/03/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

eMagin reported a Q4 net loss of $2.1 million, up 31% YoY from $1.6 million. Turnover was $6.7 million: flat on a YoY basis. For the full year 2015, net loss was $4.1 million, …

Tags:eMagin| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Foxconn Seeks to Lower Sharp Value

by Tom Allen

Concerns about potential liabilities (Foxconn Delays Sharp Acquisition) have led to Foxconn seeking to reduce the amount it will pay for Sharp in an acquisition. The news comes from Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun which also …

JDI Closes Plants in Bid to Become Less Seasonal

by Tom Allen

Japan Display has announced a series of structural reforms, as it seeks to move to a business structure that is less influenced by seasonality than its current main market (smartphone displays). Since July last …

Tannas Becomes Pixel Scientific

by Tom Allen

Tannas Electronic Displays, which builds custom-sized LCD displays, was recently sold in a majority stock purchase to investors. Richard McCartney, of Scotts Valley, California, led the purchase and has been named as the new …

Rockwell Collins Can Eliminate Passports and Boarding Passes

by Bob Raikes

Rockwell Collins were almost over-enthusiastic in the pursuit of us by its PR people. We don’t think of the firm for applications in the area of flight information, but two years ago, it bought …

Net Display Systems Covers All Bases

by Bob Raikes

Net Display Systems was demonstrating its Pads 4 digital signage software (mentioned by the firm’s UK distributor, Anders and Kern when we met the company at the Retail Digital Signage Expo, last week). When …

Does Thunderbolt 3 Allow a New Class of Displays?

by Bob Raikes

We have more events to report on this week with the show report from the Retail DSE in Large Display Monitor and with our CeBIT report in both newsletters. We were also at PTE …

Tags:Editorial| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Cord-Shaving Outweighs Cord-Cutting

by Tom Allen

Research by Nielsen suggests that cord-cutting concerns are not as well-founded as expected. Most consumers are likely to cut back on, but not cancel, their pay-TV services, and complement them with streaming services like …

Flexible Will be Fastest-Growing OLED Segment to 2018

by Tom Allen

The OLED Association (OLED-A) expects the OLED market to grow at a 22% CAGR between 2014 and 2018 – with capacity growth from 1 million m² in 2009 to 6.8 million m² by the …