Roku Takes on Exertis
by Tom Allen
Roku has appointed Exertis Banque Magnétique as its distributor in France.
Tags:Exertis| France| Large Display Monitor| Roku| Vol 22 - Issue 47
LG to Compete With Apple Pay
by Tom Allen
Left-to-right: Wi Sung-ho, CEO of Shinhan Card; Juno Cho, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Company and Kim Duk-soo, CEO of KB Kookmin CardLG has launched its own mobile payment service, to compete …
Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Payment Systems| Vol 22 - Issue 47
LG Display Plans OLED Investment
by Tom Allen
Korea’s Digital Times says that LG Display plans to invest $4.2 billion in new OLED facilities, to meet expected market demand from 2017 onwards. The new ‘P10’ fab will be located in Paju, South …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 22 - Issue 47
Augmented Reality Will Outgrow VR
by Tom Allen
Nintendo’s proposed ‘Pokémon Go’ game is a perfect example of mobile AR. ABI Research has forecast that augmented reality will prove to be a larger market than virtual reality in time. The firm projects …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 47
UltraHD Will Come Post-Launch for SkyQ
by Tom Allen
We have more specifications of the upcoming SkyQ Silver box from Sky (SkyQ Will be Sky’s First UltraHD STB). This is the premium version of the STB. It will feature HDMI-out (x2), HDMI-in, USB …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Sky| STBs| Vol 22 - Issue 47
Roku Adds New Content Sources
by Tom Allen
Roku has secured new UltraHD content for its Roku 4 box (Roku Goes 4k With Fourth Gen), from several sources. These include Smithsonian Earth (also on Apple TV, but only in UltraHD on Roku); …
Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Movies & Content| Roku| Vol 22 - Issue 47
Quantum Dots or OLED – Which Will Create a Better Image?
by Norbert Hildebrand
Quantum Dots (QD) are one of the topics for display technology that rival the excitement over OLED technology by offering an alternative path to providing a better image. In general, I am not saying …
Tags:display technology| HDR - High Dynamic Range| OLEDs| Patents| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 47| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
Tablets Stabilise in Western Europe
by Tom Allen
8.7 million tablets were shipped to Western European countries in Q3’15, which was down just 1% from last year, says IDC. The firm believes this to be a ‘clear sign’ of stabilisation in the …
Tags:Europe| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 47
Channel Islands Store Chooses Matrox
by Tom Allen
Sure International, a telecom company in the UK’s Channel Islands, has installed a new video wall in its store in Saint Helier, using Philips displays and Matrox graphics cards. Six 46″ Philips screens were …
Tags:Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Matrox| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 47
BrightSign Players Used in Turkish Project
by Bob Raikes
BrightSign players have been used in a large-scale network rollout of almost 400 screens in Turkey. Linova Digital Medya Teknolojileri built the network for Shell garage forecourts. BrightSign’s Network Enterprise Edition player was chosen …
Tags:Brightsign| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 47
My Etendue Story
by Kenneth Li
Etendue is a familiar word among optical engineers especially projection engine designers. It represents how “spread out” the light from a source is. The unit of measure is simply (sr * m²), the product …
Tags:Fibre optics| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Optics| Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 47
