Vol 23 - Issue 50

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Amazon Re-vamps Fire TV Interface

by Bob Raikes

Amazon has designed a new user interface for its Fire TV STB. The new interface includes video ‘snippets’ and trailers and Amazon said that it would add more content services in the longer term. …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 23 - Issue 50

EU Agrees 700MHz Switch in 2020

by Bob Raikes

The main european institutions, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission, have agreed that the 700MHz UHF frequency band (694MHz-700MHz) will be made available for broadband wireless use by June 30th 2020, …

Tags:Broadcast| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 23 - Issue 50

French Start-Up Allows Real Pen & Pencil Input

by Bob Raikes

The Slate is a new drawing system developed by ISKN in Grenoble, France, that uses a special ring that is fitted to a traditional pen or pencil and uses magnetic tracking to digitise the …

Tags:France| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Ergotron Updates LX & HX Mounts for Multi-Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Ergotron has new HX desk and wall monitor arms and ‘streamlined and economical’ LX Dual Direct arm. The HX arms are designed to support up to three monitors and are available in polished aluminium, …

Tags:Display Mounts| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Continental to Work with DigiLens in Automotive AR

by Bob Raikes

Continental (which we see as a tyre supplier, but which sees itself as a technology company!) said that it has done a deal with DigiLens Inc, a supplier of holographic projection technology for application …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

NY City Jumps on the AR / VR Bandwagon

by Norbert Hildebrand

New York City announced a project to support and foster AR / VR start up companies to create a New York based AR /VR industry. The NYCEDC (New York City Economic Development Corporation) and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 50

AbonMax Wants to Get into Interactive Displays

by Bob Raikes

Abontouch, a subsidiary of Palwonn of Taiwan (a PCB maker with facilities in China), said it would take its new AbonMax series touch panels (55″ and 65″ to ISE and also the Embedded World …

Tags:Interactive Displays| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Will TV Set Makers be in the Sun or Rain?

by Bob Raikes

I was struggling among the stream of news that is pouring in to find a topic for my Display Daily today, but as I worked on our weekly newsletter, I realised that the news …

Tags:China| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| LG Electronics (LGE)| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Synopsys Can Test DP 1.4 with DSC

by Bob Raikes

Synopsys said that it has what it claims to be the industry’s first Verification IP (VIP) and source code test suite for DisplayPort 1.4 with DSC 1.2 and for eDP 1.4a/b. “The new DisplayPort …

Tags:DisplayPort| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 23 - Issue 50

BlackBerry

Blackberry Confirms TCL (Alcatel) Deal

by Bob Raikes

Blackberry has confirmed that TCL, which also runs the Alcatel brand, has licensed the Blackberry brand for smartphones on an almost global basis (BlackBerry To Drop Smartphone Design and Build). The first phones to …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| TCL| Vol 23 - Issue 50

IHS Markit Expects TDDI Boost

by Bob Raikes

IHS Markit has released information about developments in TDDI (Touch and Display Driver Integration LCD Makers Developing In-Cell Touch Based on TDDI) which integrates the circuitry to monitor touch and drive the display into …

Tags:IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Touch Controllers| Vol 23 - Issue 50

LG Display Working with Google and Apple on Flexible

by Bob Raikes

The ETNews in Korea has said that LG Display will work with Apple and Google to make foldable displays and the paper says that the company will start mass production in 2018. Customers will …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50