Vol 25 – Issue 02 – Page 2

Panasonic North America Chairman CEO Tom Gebhardt

Panasonic Keeps OLED for Studios in the US

by Chris Chinnock

Key Messages Panasonic used its CES 2018 press conference to announce four new OLED TVs and to reinforce its support for the dynamic metadata HDR10+ standard. Panasonic is part of the HDR10+ consortium formed …

TCL Looking to Upgrade Brand

by Chris Chinnock

Key Messages At TCL’s CES press conference, the company first highlighted their sales success in 2017. They are a top three global brand having sold 23M TVs, up 16% globally and 131% in North …

TV Projectors at CES

by Chris Chinnock

See Projection Round up from CES 2018 for details of other projectors at the show. ChangHong was showing two different ultrashort throw projection TVs. The first is a new prototype of a RGB laser …

PixelDisplay Claims Advantages over QDs

by Chris Chinnock

PixelDisplay is a company that debuted at last year’s SID conference with a method to create narrow band RGB light for wide color gamut HDR displays. They showed a demo of an LED with …

LG Display Surprises with Roled and 8K

by Bob Raikes

LG Display had a lot to talk about, but once again we found it frustrating! Last year, on the analyst day, the company wouldn’t let us take photos, but then decided to let the …

USB Implementors’ Forum Planning for USB3.2

by Bob Raikes

We met with the USB Implementors Forum in its suite and we started by hearing of the latest developments in USB 3.2 which was announced in the summer of 2017. The latest version has …

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Lumens Idea of MicroLED is not Really MicroLED

by Chris Chinnock

Lumens is a Korean-based LED maker that was at CES to showcase their “microLED Display.” Their definition of a microLED is a bit different from Plessey’s, however (Plessey Shows GaN on Silicon Microdisplay). Lumens …

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Plessey Shows GaN on Silicon Microdisplay

by Chris Chinnock

We met with Plessey Semiconductor to learn more about what the company is doing in the microLED arena. Their announcement that the company was “launching the first monolithic microLED display” sparked a meeting. What …

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Stream TV Claims No Viewing Zones on 8K AS3D

by Chris Chinnock

Like KDX (KDX Builds Alliance for 3D), Stream TV Networks has been developing glasses-free displays for a long time. These still have the same issues as KDX displays – limited depth volume and accommodation-vergence …

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KDX Builds Alliance for 3D

by Chris Chinnock

KDX Group is a leading Chinese brand which has been developing and promoting glasses-free 3D displays and products for some time. They bought glasses-free 3D specialist Dimenco several years ago. (Dimenco Acquired by KDX) …

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Nanoco Looking to Commercialisation

by Chris Chinnock

We met with Quantum Dot developer Nanoco in their suite in the Venetian at CES 2018. The first thing they showed us were three displays that had been modified to remove quantum dot films …

Blu-ray Disc Association Settles on 8K Format

by Chris Chinnock

Our meeting with the Blu-ray Disc Association was to provide a review of the year’s activities and plans going forward. Perhaps the biggest news is that in December 2017, the specification for an 8K …