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BOE & Merck Clarify an LGD Mystery

by Bob Raikes

Most of the time on Display Daily in the last year or two, we have tended to talk about mostly about OLED, microLED and QD OLED, the new technologies that are changing the premium …

Are New Displays Always Better? Like MicroLEDs?

by Bob Raikes

We display enthusiasts always love new technologies and look forward to the ‘next big thing’ with enthusiasm. But sometimes, we assume that everything will improve, but that’s not always the case, especially early in …

DNP develops a new film to reduce blue shift in OLED panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) said that it has a new film that corrects for a blue shift in OLED panels when viewed from the side by using a microlens …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Colour Critical Monitors| OLEDs| Wide Viewing Angles

When is 8K not 8K – continued….

by Rasmus Larsen

In recent years, Samsung has pushed LCD technology forward in a number of ways. One method has been to use a quantum dot film in the stack to expand the color gamut. More importantly, …

Tags:Samsung| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)| Wide Viewing Angles

Samsung’s 2019 TV Line Event: “Hey, we sell Ultra HDTVs too, remember?”

by Pete Putman

Last Thursday, I traveled up to Samsung’s QA Labs in Pine Brook, NJ to get the “skinny” on the company’s 2019 TV lineup. The event was very much low-key, taking place in one of …

Tags:Anti Glare| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Wide Viewing Angles

A New Alignment Technology for Liquid Crystals is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

An international team of researchers headed by Dimitri Ivanov of the Laboratory of Functional Organic and Hybrid Materials at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russian Federation) is developing a new means …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 20| Wide Viewing Angles

Samsung Innovates in TVs

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung officially unveiled a number of TV-related innovations at CES 2017. We described some of them in a pre-CES article (Samsung QD TVs Could be a Game Changer), but additional details and models were …

LG’s Nano Cell / Nano Color Technology Explained

by Chris Chinnock

LG Electronics talked a lot about their Nano Cell technology at CES 2017 and how this improves performance of their Super LCD TVs. They described Nano Cell LCD displays as having, “uniformly-sized particles measuring …

Value Electronics UHD Shoot-out at CES Week

by Chris Chinnock

Retailer Value Electronics, working with AVPro and ISF founder Joel Silver, offered a series of seminars at CE Week that was billed as a “shoot out” between four UHD HDR TVs. Participants were given …

GTK’s After-Market Film Widens Viewing Angles

by Tom Allen

UK-based GTK has created a new polariser called the ‘O-Film’, which is said to improve viewing angles when applied to displays. GTK’s Clive Dickinson, a business manager, says that the O-Film can be used …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Polarisers| Vol 22 - Issue 52| Wide Viewing Angles

TrendForce Finds Panel Makers Turn to Developing High-Value Products

by Bob Raikes

The August shipments of notebook display panels grew 21% over the prior month to 14.43 million units, according to the latest large-size panel shipment report from WitsView, a division of TrendForce. Though the August …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Notebooks| Wide Viewing Angles

Notebook Panels Down, but Quality Up

by Bob Raikes

Witsview of Taiwan has estimated that 14.43 million notebook display panels were shipped in August, up 21% from July. However, Q3 sales will be just 41.74 million units, down 4% from 43.43 million last …