Vol 24 – Issue 12 – Page 8

Konica Minolta and Pioneer Establish Automotive OLED J/V

by Milos Pavlovic

Konica Minolta and Pioneer are planning to merge their OLED businesses and they will set up a 50/50 joint venture to make automotive OLEDs under the imaginative name of Konica Minolta Pioneer OLED from …

Acer Adds Totem & Stretched Display

by Bob Raikes

Acer has added a 55″ dual sided totem display and a 37″ 32:9 stretch display to its LFD product range. The DD550Abi has a 55″ FullHD 700 cd/m² on each side with contrast of …

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Christian Schmalzl Becomes co-CEO at Stroer

by Alan Spencer

Christian Schmalzl has been appointed as co-CEO of Stroer Media joining current CEO and founder, Udo Muller. The appointment was unanimously agreed by the supervisory board earlier this month. The 43-year was previously the …

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Planar wins San Francisco MOMA

by Alan Spencer

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has implemented digital video walls, displays and monitors from Planar, a Leyard company. There are several Clarity Matrix LCD video walls in place as well as Clarity …

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Flexible AMOLED Display Revenues to Overtake Rigid Revenues

by Alan Spencer

According to IHS Markit, due to the popularity of flexible AMOLED displays, revenues are expected to reach $3.2 billion in the third quarter of 2017. This will exceed the revenue for rigid AMOLED panels, …

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Lenovo’s Smartphone Brands See Sales Rise

by Alan Spencer

According to Digitimes, sales of Lenovo’s Motorola-brand smartphones have been increasing in Brazil, India and the US, and Lenovo expects similar increases in other markets in 2017, particularly in Asia-Pacific. Digitimes was quoting William …

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Vudu Converts DVDs & Blu-rays to Digital

by Bob Raikes

Vudu, Walmart’s streaming service, is offering a DVD and Blu-ray-based service to convert content to allow viewing into ‘digital’ copies. The service is available for around 8,000 movies from Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony, Twentieth Century …

Dell Starts to Take Orders for 8K Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Dell has started to take pre-orders for the UP3218K 8K monitor that it showed at the recent CES show. (Dell 8K Monitor Available Soon) The price has been confirmed at $5,000 and it will …

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Mstar and Irdeto Secure China DRM

by Alan Spencer

Irdeto and MStar Semiconductor have partnered to secure premium content for video service providers in China. This will give operators and content owners in China, more control and confidence to launch premium content services, …

Virtual Elephants Trek the World

by Alan Spencer

Conservation campaigners in the UK, have welcomed the arrival of March for Giants, which is the world’s first virtual elephant herd. March for Giants is raising funds for Space for Giants, a conservation charity …

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Poster Comes to Life with Kinect

by Bob Raikes

We were intrigued to see a video taken at the recent SXSW event that showed an ‘Uncle Sam’ recruitment poster that uses Kinect technology to track the viewer and point ‘I want you’ in …

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Lightvert Now On the BBC

by Bob Raikes

We reported on UK-based Lightvert (Lightvert Has Large Displays… or not…) which has developed a system for creating huge LED-based displays on tall buildings that exploit the persistence of vision. Now, the BBC has …

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