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NEC Display Helps Mercy Ships With Displays

by Yvette Raikes

Mercy Ships uses hospital ships to provide free healthcare services to the developing world. NEC Display Solutions of America has given the organisation 2,000 commercial-grade displays, including videowall and touch interactive displays. These will …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| NEC| Vol 24 - Issue 24

CES Celebrates Fifty Years

by Yvette Raikes

The picture shows the very first CES held in New York from June 25th to 28th 1967. There were 117 exhibitors and 17,500 attendees. Fifty years later, CES 2017 had over 4000 exhibitors and …

Tags:Back Panel| CTA (was CEA)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 24

Seoul Semiconductor and Toshiba Combine on LED

by Bob Raikes

Seoul Semiconductor and Toshiba Materials are working together to create LEDs that have light quality that is like sunlight and will be sold under the SunLike brand. The devices will be used for lighting, …

Dell Alienware Monitor Supports 240Hz

by Bob Raikes

Dell has a new 24.5″ FullHD addition to its Alienware gaming brand. The Alienware TN monitors support 240Hz operation with 1ms response time. There are two versions, one with FreeSync which costs around $399 …

Samsung To Build Huge OLED Plant

by Bob Raikes

The ET Times in Korea has reported that Samsung has started to finalise a plan for a new OLED fab (tentatively called ‘A5’) which will have capacity of 180,000 G6 substrates per month, expandable …

UCD Creates a Virtual Tour

by Bob Raikes

Universal Display Corp (UDC), which develops OLED materials, has released a video of its facilities in the US.

Laser Goes Well at Barco

by Bob Raikes

Barco has highlighted its development in laser projectors and said that more than 50 theatre complexes, including 20 in EMEA, are now all-Barco laser multiplexes. The number in EMEA has gone from one to …

Tags:Barco| Cinema Projection| Large Display Monitor| Laser Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 24

Holitech Branches Into Europe

by Yvette Raikes

Chinese display maker Holitech will open a European office in Munich, Germany, on 13th July. The company employs 24,000 people in China and is hoping to establish itself in Europe, under the leadership of …

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

Real Stops Use of Facial Recognition

by Yvette Raikes

The Real chain of department stores in Germany, part of the Metro group, has brought its use of eye contact detection equipment to an end. Cameras were integrated into screens in the POS area …

Tags:DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Privacy| Vol 24 - Issue 24

BOEVT Wants to Boost ODM TV Assembly

by Bob Raikes

Witsview, quoted in Digitimes, has said that BOE Vision-Electronic Technology, the TV assembly part of the Chinese panel maker, is looking to build 12 million ODM TVs this year, compared to 6.5 million in …

Tags:BOE| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 24

HTC Optimistic about Apple VR Moves

by Bob Raikes

Apple has announced its API for VR and Patently Apple reports that Raymond Pao, VP of HTC’s VR New Technology Department, said that the performance of HTC’s headsets will be greatly improved and that …

Qualcomm Fingerprint Technology Works Through Display

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm has developed new ultrasonic fingerprint detectors that add to the features of the previous version, the firm said. There are sensors for displays, glass and metal as well as the detection of directional …

Tags:Chips| Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 24