Vol 24 – Issue 14 – Page 6

ProLight & Sound 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Absen was showing the M series of LEDs that we saw at ISE which was being shown with processing from Brompton Technology of the UK. The company told us that the M series has …

ProLight & Sound is Important for Rental & Staging

by Bob Raikes

The Prolight & Sound took place at the Frankfurt Messe from 4th to the 6th of April, running alongside the Musik Messe, which started a day later. The event is an important event for …

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Fox Acquisition of Sky Cleared by EU

by Alan Spencer

The green light has been given by the EU Competition Authorities for the full acquisition of Sky plc by 21st Century Fox. 21st Century Fox already owns 39.1% of Sky. The acquisition, which was …

SES to Split into Two Business Units

by Alan Spencer

SES is planning a restructure of the company, with the formation of two separate business units, SES Video and SES Networks which will focus on the video and data segments, respectively. Ferdinand Kayser, currently …

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More Details of Toppan RFID Tags

by Bob Raikes

We reported last week on new ESLs that are being made by Toppan, using E Ink displays from Pervasive (Pervasive Combines E Ink with RFID for Battery-less Tags). We followed up with Toppan as …

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Google Offers Cash for OLEDs

by Alan Spencer

According to Electronics Times, Google has offered to invest at least $880 million (KRW 1 trillion) in LG Display in order to boost the output of smartphone OLED screens. Google offered the investment to …

Samsung Expects Good Profits in FY17 Q1

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Samsung Electronics announced its earning guidance for FY17 Q1 with consolidated revenue of approximately KRW 50 trillion ($43.7 billion) and operating profit of KRW 9.9 trillion ($8.7 billion). The consolidated revenue was almost the …

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Also Unveils New Service

by Isaac Oburu

Also has launched ‘Smartgo’ – a repair service that focuses only on repairing smartphones in Switzerland.

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LG Display – 50% of Revenue to Come From OLED

by Bob Raikes

At the Finetech conference in Tokyo, Japan, LG Display’s CTO, Kang In-Byeong said that the company only saw 10% of its revenue coming from OLED in 2016, but that it expects more than 50% …

Cynora Promises Blue TADF in 2017

by Bob Raikes

OLED Info has conducted an interview with Dr. Andreas Haldi, the CMO of Cynora, the German start up that is working on TADF materials. The key development highlighted was that the firm expects to …

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Xbox ‘Scorpio’ Supports VRR & HDR

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has announced the specifications for its next XBox version which will support UltraHD game play with high frame rates. While the XBox One has 12 compute cores in the GPU and around 12 …

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CDS Stretched Screens Now Support UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Crystal Display Systems (CDS) of the UK said that it is now supplying stretched displays with UltraHD horizontal resolution. There is a 34.8″ with 3048 x 536, a 35.8″ with 3840 x 1076 and …

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