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Acer Wants to Boost its Share in MEA Enterprise Notebook Market

by Andrew Fenn

Acer will make a concerted effort to increase its presence in the Middle East and Africa enterprise notebook market during 2018, according to Digitimes. Citing comments from country manager Paul Collins, the publication revealed …

AUO President Says Flat Panel Industry will Rebound in 2018 Q3

by Andrew Fenn

Michael TsaiMichael Tsai, president of AU Optronics (AUO) was recently quoted by Digitimes as saying that the global flat panel industry will rebound in the third quarter of 2018 after a difficult second quarter. …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Smartphone Market: New Opportunities for LTPS LCD?

by Sweta Dash

Just one year back, the outlook for LTPS LCD (Low Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon Liquid Crystal Display) was filled with fear and uncertainties as smartphone brands such as Samsung, Apple and top China brands shifted …

Samsung Forecast to Maintain Share in 2018

by Bob Raikes

The OLED Association published the following table showing historic and forecast shipments for TV companies and quotes IHS and Statista as the source.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TV Set Market| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Koreans Concerned about Inkjet OLED Developments in China

by Bob Raikes

At the 2018 OLED Korea event recently, JOLED of Japan explained its progress in developing inkjet printing of displays. It can achieve, it says, 300 ppi or more on G8 substrates. Samples of a …

BOE Confirms G10.5 Wuhan Investment

by Andrew Fenn

A Chinese media report identifies BOE as formally announcing its investment to build a further G10.5 fab in Wuhan (BOE Formalises Second G10.5 Plan) for 120K per month substrates (around 1 million per month …

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Saturn Has a No Cashier Store

by Bob Raikes

MediaMarkt Saturn is trialling a new retail concept in Austria. At a new Saturn Express in Innsbruck, customers can use a special app at the shelf to scan a QR code on the item …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MediaMarkt (Saturn)| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 25 - Issue 10

VRstudios and Multi-Player 6DOF VR Games

by Matthew Brennesholtz

VRstudios provides six degree-of-freedom (6DOF) virtual reality (VR) systems for out-of-home entertainment centers such as theme parks. 6DOF VR systems allow the person wearing the VR head mounted display (HMD) to not only look …

Mitsubishi Electric Receives IEEE Milestone for Outdoor Displays

by Bob Raikes

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced that the company’s Diamond Vision series of outdoor large-scale color display systems has received the prestigious IEEE Milestone award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). …

MSU Working on FLCD

by Bob Raikes

We noted a number of articles appearing that talked about developments in the Moscow State University of Ferroelectric LC materials which can be used in frame-sequential LCDs, which would have the advantage of not …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Mobile Display Monitor| Russia| Vol 25 - Issue 10

AIMC: Spain’s OTT Subscriptions Doubled During 2017

by Andrew Fenn

OTT platforms in Spain doubled their subscription counts last year, according to Advanced Television. Citing data from media research company AIMC, the publication reports that the country’s OTT subscribers grew from 9.5% of its …

Eizo Monitor Supports Dual 3G SDI

by Bob Raikes

Eizo Corporation announced the CuratOR EX2621, a 26″ FullHD surgical monitor with “three screen” support and image enhancing technology. It is an upgrade on the CuratOR EX2621 which was released earlier, but has only …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Medical| Vol 25 - Issue 10