Vol 24 – Issue 28 – Page 2

Flexible OLEDs Used in India

by Bob Raikes

A shopping mall in the Ambience Mall in Gurugram, India uses 70 curved LG OLED displays to create a ‘dgital chandelier’ and act as a focal point for the location. The installation weighs 4.8 …

Tags:Digital Signage| India| Large Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 28

TSItouch Wins Protective Glass Patent

by Bob Raikes

TSITouch of the US has registered a patent (#9,671,824) for a protective glass design for video walls that avoids the need to bond displays. The Glass Retention Bezel System (GRBS) is a modular solution …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Patents| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Admedia UK Network Grows

by Bob Raikes

Admedia is adding new LEDs in Reading West and Heston East on the M4 motorway service areas (MSAs) in the UK on 14th August, bringing its network to 18 displays. The initial 16 D48 …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Flexible OLED Capacity to Sustain 91% CAGR between 2016 and 2020

by Ken Werner

Flexible AMOLED capacity will expand from 1.5 million square meters to 20.1 million m² between 2016 and 2020 for a compound annual growth rate of 91%. Almost every new fab up to Gen 6 …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Parade Technologies Result 03/08/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Parade Technologies announced FY17 Q2 results with consolidated revenues of $85.9 million and net income of $14.8 million, with a net margin of 17%. Revenue increased by 25% on a yearly basis. The gross …

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Vol 24 #28 Product Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Elo Touch Systems has released two new low-profile, open-frame touchscreens, the 4343L and 5543L. They have PCao touch technology and allow up to 12 simultaneous touches. The Edge to Edge glass architecture of the …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Optoma| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 28

JDI Ponders How to Enter OLED Business

by Bob Raikes

Nikkei reports that JDI (described as ‘limping’) JDI has asked Mizhuo Bank for loans totalling around ¥100 billion ($900 milliion) to help the company to deal with the challenges of the move from premium …

Tags:Apple| Japan| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Plex Now on iOS and Android

by Bob Raikes

There is a new app for Apple TV and Android platforms called Plex Live TV which adds PVR functions to unencrypted TV signals that are derived from SiliconDust, Hauppauge, AVerMedia and DVBLogic. The details …

Vizio Adds Smarts to Chromecast TVs

by Bob Raikes

Vizio has said that it will update its Vizio P and M series TVs to add a SmartTV interface to the sets, which previously worked with mobile devices using Chromecast. The sets will support …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 28

LG Promotes Nanocell on YouTube

by Bob Raikes

LG Electronics has made a celebrity video that is published on YouTube (with 3.5 million views, when we looked) that shows footballers Steven Gerrard and Adam Lallana kicking footballs at two different video walls …

111.8 million Smartphones Shipped to China in the Second Quarter

by Alan Spencer

The latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for the second quarter of this year, reveals that there were 111.8 million smartphones shipped to China in the quarter, with growth being flat when compared to …

Tags:China| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 28

IDC: AR/VR Growth to Double Each Year Through 2021

by Andrew Fenn

IDC has released a new report predicting that augmented and virtual reality will grow by at least 100% each year from now until 2021. In terms of revenue, this represents an increase from the …