SID Display Week 2016 – Page 2

LG Wins Prize for OLED TV

by Bob Raikes

LG Display’s booth featured the LG Electronics 77″ UltraHD TV, using its panel on the front of the booth, and it was catching everyone’s eye. It has great contrast and pretty good HDR performance, …

ClearInk is a Clear Highlight of SID 2016

by Bob Raikes

Several weeks ago, Ken wrote a Display Daily on a start-up called ClearInk (CLEARink Brings New Wrinkle to Electrophoretic Displays). I was travelling at the time and, unusually, I didn’t edit it – the …

Tags:Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| EPD (Electrophoretic)| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21| Wearables

IHS Says Smart Watches to Dominate Wearables

by Steve Sechrist

Placing a bet on wearables? Look no further than the smartwatch category, which will dominate the display revenue space going forward, according to the latest IHS data presented at Display Week 2016 business conference. …

JDI Impresses with Low Power and High Resolution

by Bob Raikes

For many years, one of the consistent highlights of SID has been to visit Toshiba’s panel business, which then became TM Displays and, eventually, JDI. As usual, there was lots and lots to see …

Quantum Dots Get Hot

by Ken Werner

At Display Week quantum-dot makers had more significant announcements and introductions than many of us expected. Its not that QDs had become boring before Display Week. After all, television market penetration was 25% heading …

IHS Forecasts Wearables in the Healthcare Market

by Steve Sechrist

One session at the IHS Wearables – Flex conference during Display Week focused on healthcare as a driver in the wearables market, particularly as it affects the display industry. IHS Principle Analyst Shane Walker …

3D Developments

by Chris Chinnock

At SID DisplayWeek in San Francisco, there were several demonstrations of 3D technology on the show floor, which we summarize below. We did not review any papers, however. SeeFront is a German company developing …

AR/VR/HUD News

by Chris Chinnock

We did not review the many papers on AR/VR at SID, so below is a summary of what was being shown on the exhibit floor. BOE showed a prototype panel that was 2.8” in …

Projection Advancements

by Chris Chinnock

Below is a summary of some of the projection-related news we saw on the exhibit floor at SID. Moxtek has supplied their Wire Grid Polarizer (WGP) for projection applications for a long time. This …

IHS Flexible Wearable Business Conference – Market

by Steve Sechrist

In the IHS-organised Wearable-Flexible business conference at Display Week, highlights included a market survey of current conditions (where the market is) and a survey of trends portending where the technology is headed. To quote …

Fujifilm Discusses Novel Transparent Screen Design

by Chris Chinnock

Transparent screens for projection applications are not very common, but they can be quite effective for advertising, merchandising and increasingly, augmented reality applications such as Head Up Displays. At SID 2016, Fujifilm gave a …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Projection Screens| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

KN2 Display Week 2016 JDI Keynote

by Steve Sechrist

Keynote address are meant to set the tone of a conference and help point in the general direction of what’s to be expected in the hurried and meeting-packed days to come. This was particularly …