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Stranger Things, Wisconsin Edition

by Pete Putman

Foxconn’s original plan to build a Gen 10.5 LCD fab in Racine County has taken yet another weird turn. The saga continues. Foxconn, which had announced it would build a state-of-the-art LCD fab and …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| LCD Fabs| USA

Will Coronavirus Flay School Budgets?

by Len Scrogan

Across the large and small display industry, many planners in the US are wondering how the Covid-19 pandemic will end up affecting revenues and business coming from the K-12 and higher ed markets. Most …

Tags:display technology| Education| USA

ATSC 3.0 Highlighted in Sessions and on the Show Floor

by Aldo Cugnini

“Nextgen TV, powered by ATSC 3.0” was one of the key technologies highlighted at this year’s CES consumer technology show in Las Vegas. The first U.S. consumer receivers with integrated Nextgen TV capabilities were …

The Art of the Deal

by Ken Werner

On December 1, 2017 the Village of Mount Pleasant in Racine County, Wisconsin issued the execution version of its development agreement for the “Foxconn Project,” under which Foxconn was to build a $10 billlion …

Tags:Investment| LCD Fabs| USA

99% Uptime Over Nearly Two Decades: U.S. Air Force Extends Collins Aerospace Contract to Support JSTARS Aircrew Simulators for Another 10 Years

by Artem Alekseenko

After nearly two decades of providing sustainment support, Collins Aerospace Systems has received a 10-year extension from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide services critical to maintaining the training system for the E-8C …

Tags:Aviation| Military & Defence| Rockwell Collins| Simulation| USA

Selling Wisconsin By the Panel

by Pete Putman

Politics and technology intersect more often than you might think. And no better example of this can be found than the announcement in 2018 by Terry Gou of Hon Hai Precision (Foxconn) that he …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| TV Set Market| USA

Samsung’s Onyx LED Cinema Screen Comes to Houston

by Pete Putman

Last Tuesday, I was one of a group of journalists invited to the grand opening of Samsung’s latest Onyx LED cinema screen, this time at the Star Cinema Grill in Richmond, Texas, just outside …

Tags:LED Cinema| Samsung| USA

TCL Surges to the Top of the North American TV Market Amid US-China Trade Turbulence

by Paul Gagnon

At the SID Display Week Business Conference, I mentioned that there were interesting brand developments and now the details have been released (TV Session at Display Week Business Conference Shows Prescience). Chinese brand TCL …

Tags:Samsung| TCL| TV Set Market| USA

The VR / AR Market Growth – I am Still Not Convinced

by Norbert Hildebrand

In recent news, market forecasts and surveys seem to hint at an uptick in VR market success. Combine this with the continued support from several large players and it seems that the AR / …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Market Data| USA| Virtual Reality

ATSC 3.0 Shows Progress at NAB 2019

by Aldo Cugnini

From all appearances at the NAB 2019 Conference held in Las Vegas between April 6 and 11, there is considerable activity by broadcasters and manufacturers that are preparing to roll out over-the-air services, and …

Tags:5G| ATSC| Broadcast| USA

Chasing Better AR in Education

by Len Scrogan

In a distant corner of the massive exhibit hall, crowds of educators crammed themselves into a small booth, and this went on uninterrupted, day after day. It was difficult to get face time with …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| USA

“Stop Watching So Much Television. You’ll Ruin Your Eyes!”

by Pete Putman

Those of us old enough to remember when a 19-inch black-and-white television was a “big screen” know this mantra by heart. Back then, in the US, there were three TV networks plus a few …

Tags:Cable| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA