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Samsung Plans 10 Million Galaxy S8s

by Bob Raikes

The ET News in Korea reports that Samsung is expected to make 10 million of its new S8s (tentative name) smartphones which are expected to be launched at MWC in February in the first …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Delta Wins LED in Columbus

by Bob Raikes

Delta Displays said that it has installed two 3mm pitch LED displays that are 13.44m x 4.32m in size, giving a resolution of 4480 x 1440 for flight information in the John Glenn Columbus …

Tags:DOOH| Flight Information (FIDs)| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Worldwide Device Shipments Flat Until 2018

by Bob Raikes

Gartner has said that worldwide combined shipments of PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones are projected to remain flat in 2017, with very slight growth in 2018 and 2019. Mobile phones and ultramobiles will …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01

TV Panel Area up 8% in 2016

by Bob Raikes

Sigmaintell of China released data on LCD TV panels in 2016 and the data was reported by Digitimes. The report identifies total sales of 258 million panels for TV with a total area of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| LCD TVs| Vol 24 - Issue 01

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A-I-Os to Drop 4.8% in 2016

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research said that it believes that shipments of all-in-one PCs dropped 4.8% year on year in 2016 to around 12 million units. The company expects no growth this year. As the drop in …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Rohde & Schwarz Can Test HLG over HDMI

by Bob Raikes

Rohde & Schwarz has a new module for its R&S VTC/VTE/VTS video tester family that can support testing of HDR and HDMI including HLG and it can support data rates up to 18Gbps. It …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Test Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Continental Ramps Up Manufacturing Capacity for HUDs

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Automotive HUD market is in every way a growing market, however real sales numbers are difficult to come by, as most car makers still sell the HUD as an up sell feature and …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Quantum Materials Corp Shows Heavy Metal Free QD at CES 2017

by Norbert Hildebrand

After we recently reported on the reshuffling of the boardroom at Quantum Materials Corp., we now hear that they will be showing off their heavy metal free quantum dot solution to interested display manufacturers …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 01

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BBC Fills in Background on HLG Adoption

by Bob Raikes

We spotted a nice article in the December SMPTE Newswatch email that reports on an interview with Tim Borer of the BBC about the HLG HRD specification and its development. Borer also goes on …

Tags:BBC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| SMPTE| Vol 24 - Issue 01

DMax & Eurosport Go FTA on DVB-T2

by Bob Raikes

Discovery Networks and Media Broadcast have agreed to distribute the Eurosport 1 HD and DMax HD channels free-to-air using the new DVB-T2 broadcast system which will go live at the end of March to …

Tags:FTA (Free to Air)| Germany| HDTV| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Fraunhofer FEP to Present at SID ME Meeting

by Bob Raikes

The Fraunhofer FEP said that it would show the first prototypes of its OLED microdisplay at the SID Mid-Europe meeting on March 13th/14th in Dresden.

Tags:Back Panel| Fraunhofer| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Society| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Userful Video Wall Installed in Florida Pub

by Bob Raikes

Userful has published a video case study of its system being used to show a wide range of content in a pub in Sarasota, Florida. The user is creating his own content and is …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 01