Vol 23 – Issue 39 – Page 4

LCD to OLED Shift Accelerates for Koreans

by Bob Raikes

IHS Markit has confirmed the switch in strategy from LCD to OLED by the Korean panel makers because of growing capacity and price competition from China. As we have previously reported, Samsung has already …

Sharp LFDs from Infocomm Start to Ship

by Bob Raikes

Sharp USA has announced that the new 42″, 49″ and 55″ (PN-R556/R496/R426) monitors in its PN-R series, which we reported on at Infocomm, have started to become available. The new units are slimmer than …

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Sharp Shows 1000+ ppi For VR and Rounded Corners on LCD

by Bob Raikes

At Ceatec in Japan, Sharp has shown an LCD based on an IGZO backplane that has reached a pixel density of more than 1000 ppi. The panel was 2.87″ in diagonal with 1920 x …

Wienands Becomes SVP of Hisense Germany

by Yvette Raikes

Hisense Germany has taken on Hans Wienands as senior vice president, responsible for Europe. He was previously director of sales and marketing at Panasonic, where he was employed for 13 years. He also worked …

DSF Europe Cooperates with Digital Signage Federation

by Milos Pavlovic

DSF Europe, a trade association that was previously known as OVAB, has said that it is working with the Digital Signage Federation (DSF) in the US to collaborate in a number of ways. DSF …

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Almoe Digital Solutions To sell Peerless-AV in the Middle East

by Isaac Oburu

During the Gitex 2016 event, Almoe Digital Solutions announced that it had partnered with Peerless-AV to distribute the products in Dubai and the Middle East.

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Google Brings New Phones and VR Headset

by Bob Raikes

Google announced two new smartphone models as well as a VR system. The phones are called the Pixel and Pixel XL and will be sold only under the Google brand and not via a …

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Oppo Ahead of Apple in India

by Bob Raikes

The Economc Times reports that Oppo of China has claimed on the basis of data from GfK, that the value of its business in India was more than that of Apple in August at …

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Lenovo Building Notebook Inventory?

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes reports that Lenovo may have as much as five months’ inventory of notebooks and may use this inventory to try to take share from HP, which is reported by IHS to have relatively …

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White LEDs without Wavelength Conversion

by Matthew Brennesholtz

[White LEDs (WLED) are a major part of many displays, especially LCD displays. No current white LEDs emit white light directly – they use GaN blue LEDs and use phosphors, quantum dots or some …

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VR Hardware to Be Worth Over $50Bn by 2021 says Juniper

by Bob Raikes

Image: MekoJuniper Research said that it believes that the value of the market for VR headsets, peripherals and 360º cameras will reach a value of $50 billion by 2021, up from an an estimated …

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Matterport Claims the “World’s Largest Library” of Real-World VR Places

by Bob Raikes

Matterport is a Sunnyvale, California, company that is building a database of images and models for VR. It is claiming the world’s largest collection of VR-focused real-world models and locations as it claims to …

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