Vol 23 – Issue 05 – Page 3

Psco to Distribute LED Solutions in The UK

by Milos Pavlovic

PSCo will start distributing Samsung’s portfolio of LED displays in the UK and Ireland. The company has already placed an order for Samsung’s 1.5mm LED product.

Nagase and Inkron Announcing Cooperation on New Optical Materials

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Japan based Nagase is announcing a collaboration with Inkron, a Finnish high tech material company, for novel optical materials based on “Inkron’s Optical Coating (IOC) products of photo-patternable dielectric and light control materials. …

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CRT TVs Can be Dangerous

by Tom Allen

To promote National TV Safety Day in the USA, which was held on the 6th February, the CTA and Safe Kids Worldwide released a worrying statistic: a child in the US dies every three …

Copper Raises OLED Efficiency to 100%

by Tom Allen

Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Cynora, and the University of St Andrews have made contributions to the advancement of OLED power efficiency, using copper. Specifically, the researchers measured the underlying quantum …

And Finally… Vol 23 No 05

by Tom Allen

Everything is moving to high resolution – even your foamy beverages. The Ripple Maker, from Israeli start-up, CC, can ‘3D print’ images and text onto the foam on a cup of coffee. As our …

SMPTE Announces New Team for 2016

by Tom Allen

SMPTE has announced that its board of governors has named the Society’s 2016 directors and has appointed two new governors-at-large: Chris Fetner of Netflix and Leon Silverman of Disney Digital Studio Services. Bob Edge …

Olympic Games Organizers Reject 4K

by Isaac Oburu

The CTO of the Olympic Games’ Olympic Broadcast Services has confirmed that there will be no 4K/UHD transmissions from the Rio event this summer. Sotiris Salamouris told trade magazine TVB Europe that that he …

Sony Focuses on the Details

by Tom Allen

Recently, we were invited to Sony’s UK headquarters in Surrey to view the company’s newest products – including its new TVs, recently announced at CES (Sony Hopes to Challenge OLED). Although the products were, …

Samsung Revives Safety Truck

by Tom Allen

Eight months ago, in June 2015, Samsung tested a truck equipped with displays on the rear, which would show the road ahead of the vehicle through a camera feed (Overtaking Problem Solved by Samsung?). …

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Freesat Enjoys Market Growth

by Isaac Oburu

Freesat has announced that it added an additional 36,000 homes to its service in Q4’15. The company’s satellite TV service has added a total of 61,000 homes throughout 2015, bringing its total to 1.93 …

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AUO Looks to GOA for Bezel-less Panels

by Tom Allen

AUO will begin to ship bezel-less panels for UltraHD TVs in Q1’16, say sources in the Asian supply chain. Instead of using bonded drivers under the bezel, the company will use gate driver on …

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Netflix has HDR Plans

by Tom Allen

Netflix has already broken into the UltraHD market. Now, in an interview with Digital Trends, CPO Neil Hunt has said that the company’s next focus is HDR. All of the company’s original content is …