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Special Wearables Address on Android Wear and Google’s Wish List (WF1)

by Phillip Wright

The opening presentation at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at the 2015 SID Display Week was delivered by Sidney Chang, Head of Business Development for Android Wear at Google. Chang opened …

Laser Phosphor Projector Makers Sell at their Own Risk

by Chris Chinnock

The Laser Illuminated Projector Association (LIPA) was represented by Greg Niven at SID, where he provided an update on regulatory action regarding laser-based displays. While the organization has had success in Europe (IEC) and …

3D in IZone at Display Week 2015

by Steve Sechrist

At Display Week 2015, in the prototype IZone booth, 3D display was alive and well. One such autostereoscopic (no glasses) technology came from a Shenzhen, China company, SuperD 3D technology, with its 3D mobile …

ICDM Meets at SID: Mulls Next Steps

by Chris Chinnock

ICDM, or the International Committee on Display Metrology, met at SID to discuss updates to measurement procedures and to discuss other topics where metrology techniques are still in flux. One of these areas was …

Tianma Focuses on Commercial Display Applications

by Chris Chinnock

Tianma, a joint Japanese-Chinese company, was at SID showing off a number of commercially-oriented display solutions. In automotive, the company showed a HUD display, for the first time, we believe. This is based upon …

Do RGBW Pixel Architectures Compromise Color Performance?

by Chris Chinnock

One would think that the mixing of a white subpixel element in an RGBW LCD (or OLED) architecture might “pollute” the color gamut of the display leading to washed out color performance. However, we …

Is the Rec. 2020 Blue Primary at the Right Wavelength?

by Chris Chinnock

The current specification for the blue primary in the 2020 gamut is 467nm, but there is much industry discussion as to whether this is the best wavelength, given commercial considerations. The main concerns are …

3M Study Offers Tolerances for 2020 Color Gamut Specification

by Chris Chinnock

One of the big issues with the 2020 color gamut is that the specification calls for primaries that are located on the spectral locus without any tolerances. That means to be technically compliant, you …

Curved Images Can Improve Reading

by Chris Chinnock

This SID paper sounded quite interesting as I thought it might address some of the industry discussion around the benefits of a curved display. Alas, I was a bit disappointed as the paper described …

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My SID 2015 Impressions

by Chris Chinnock

First, let me confess that I did not hear every paper, attend every side conference or visit every booth at SID 2015 – far from it. As a result, I have to confine my …

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UltraHD Sports Arriving in August

by Tom Allen

BT will launch an UltraHD sports channel in the UK this August. A new YouView+ set-top box, with 1TB of storage, will also be launched at the same time, and will be supplied to …

CPT’s May Sales Dip 21% YoY

by Helen Vince

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) saw sales fall 10.3% sequentially and 21% year on year to NT$3.7 billion ($118.8 million), bringing sales so far this year to NT$21.1 billion ($677.8 million), 12.6% lower than the …

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