Vol 24 - Issue 12

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German OLED Alliance Founded

by Alan Spencer

A German OLED Technology Alliance, or GOTA, has been established by four companies. The aim of the new industry alliance is to combine the experience of its partners in OLED manufacturing. Each of the …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Japan Display to Increase Automotive LCD Production

by Alan Spencer

Japan Display has announced that it will increase LCD glass panel production capacity at its Tottori Plant from November 2017. This month, the company is building a new automated assembly line for prototypes and …

Tags:Automotive| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

IDC

Wearables See Strong Growth in Middle East & Africa in 2016

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, shipments of wearables for the Middle East and Africa region are at an all-time high of 746,000 units in the last quarter of 2016, up 29.0% compared to same quarter in …

Tags:IDC| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12| Wearables

ALi and Alticast Make a pay-TV Alliance

by Alan Spencer

Taiwan-based, ALi, that develops set-top box chipsets, and Korea-based Alticast, that provides software used by the global pay-TV industry, have announced an alliance. The two companies will work together to explore business opportunities in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Software| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 12

HTC Viveport Has Over 20,000 Developers

by Alan Spencer

According to Alvin Wang Graylin, president of HTC China, HTC’s Viveport has attracted over 20,000 registrations from independent VR application developers, resulting in the launch of around 2,200 applications. Graylin also believes that the …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Rural USA has Fewer OTT Subscribers

by Yvette Raikes

There is a big difference in statistics on TV content provision between the USA as a whole and rural North America. 82% of rural households still use more traditional video service providers, with just …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Vizio 2017 D-Series Smart TVs do Not Have HDR

by Bob Raikes

Vizio has shown its 2017 D-series Smart TV series the largest of which use direct backlighting panels with 10 zones on the 55″ and 12 on the 65″ for better contrast . 120Hz backlight …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Vizio| Vol 24 - Issue 12

HiSilicon Gets Support and Adds Media Hub Application

by Bob Raikes

HiSilicon (the chip-making subsidiary of Huawei) told us that it had no new SoCs for STBs since IBC. At the show it was mainly talking about new middleware versions. Separately, iWedia said that it …

Tags:Korea| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| TV Connect 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Lincoln Continental Adds HUD with TI Chip

by Norbert Hildebrand

Lincoln (the luxury car division of the Ford Motor Company for those outside of the USA) has announced that it has put a HUD system based on a TI DLP chip in the upcoming …

Tags:Automotive| DLP| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Virtual Laval Heads for Twenty

by Bob Raikes

Bizarrely, in the middle of the French countryside is a high technology event about VR (and AR and MR). Virtual Laval is in its 19th year as a conference on the development of VR, …

Tags:Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Diota Developing Projection AR System

by Bob Raikes

We reported on Diota at last year’s Laval event and the progress is clear from last year’s ‘sheet metal prototype’ to something that looks much more like a finished product this time. (Diota Offers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Laval Virtual 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Absen Wins Big LED Screen for French Car Showroom

by Alan Spencer

Lyon-based Starterreis, a French car dealership, engaged integrator IPOView, to design and install a visual solution for the showroom. The car dealership has an annual turnover of €195M. IPO installed several screens and interactive …

Tags:Absen| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 12