Vol 22 – Issue 09 – Display Daily

User Experience Needs Context and Context Needs Sensors

by Bob Raikes

I’ve had a busy week with a visit to the Electronic Display (ED) conference in Nuremberg, where industrial and automotive applications are the hot topics. With the Mobile World Congress coming up this Sunday, …

14 Mitsubishi Extends LCD Operating Conditions

by Bob Raikes

Mitsubishi had its own booth and was showing a range of different modules for industrial and automotive applications. The first module we looked at was a new 7″ module that has 800 x 480 …

17 Embedded World Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Auspice Star is from Taoyuan in Taiwan and makes a range of special monitors for touch and industrial applications. We asked what made the company different from the others that do this, and heard …

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16 Valens Pushes HDBaseT into Industrial PCs – Autos Next?

by Bob Raikes

Valens was at the show to promote its new HDBaseT chips. We’re used to seeing these in digital signage, but they are very useful in industrial applications. The latest Colligo chip was being shown …

15 NLT Can Support Touch with Gloves on Wet Screens

by Bob Raikes

NLT (the NEC/Tianma venture) told us that it is seeing a lot of interest in widescreen formats, now. It has had many years of supplying 4:3 and 5:4 displays with a constant fit/form/function for …

13 Litemax Has Lots to Show in Special Displays

by Bob Raikes

Litemax of Taiwan is a speciality monitor supplier that had plenty to show. It had ATM displays with up to 2,500 cd/m² of brightness and supporting -20° C to +60° operation. There was a …

12 Data Modul Highlights Touch and Updates on Arrow

by Bob Raikes

Data Modul was, of course, at the show with a strong presence. We asked about the Arrow acquisition and it seems that “the deal is not yet done” although it looks likely that it …

11 Beneq Brings Transparency to EL Displays

by Bob Raikes

Beneq is the name of the business that runs the facilities that make EL displays in Espoo, Finland. The company spun out of Planar in 2012 and continues to make EL displays for customers …

10 Embedded World Show Features Display Area

by Bob Raikes

The Embedded World exhibition takes place alongside the Electronic Displays conference and had a number of exhibitors, so we slipped away from the conference for a quick foray around the hall where most of …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

Monitor Market Finishes 2014 Slightly Up

by Bob Raikes

The European Desktop Monitor market managed to end the year just 1% up on 2013, according to Meko’s DisplayCast service. Although the growth was low, it follows four consecutive years of decline. “There was …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 22 - Issue 09

Sharp Can Supply Memory LCD

by Bob Raikes

Jeremy Lock is from Sharp’s R&D lab in Oxford and he looks at all sizes of displays, but at the conference he talked about small displays for wearables. There are a lot of questions …

08 LG Display Can Reduce LCD Refresh Without Flicker

by Bob Raikes

Hee Eun Lee is from LG and she spoke about power reduction in mobile display devices by reducing refresh rates For smartphones, hardware is improving, but the power consumption remains an issue. Refreshing the …