Sony Drops 8K Display Manufacturing, At Least For Now, Waiting For Market Demand To Emerge May 13, 2025 by Super User I missed this when it slipped out, and just came across a post about Sony quietly dropping its 8K Bravia TV line-up, effectively stopping any marketing of 8K. That pretty much leaves Samsung as the only major display manufacturer touting the super high resolution product. LG sells them but hasn’t launched a new one in …
SID’s Display Week Expected To Highlight Advances In MicroLED, Color E-Paper: Futuresource May 6, 2025 by Super User The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a piece advancing display technologies it expects to see demonstrated at next week’s Society for Information Display event in San Jose, CA. The advancer, by Principal Consultant Ted Romanowitz, drafts off what he saw at Touch Taiwan, in Guess Where. As happens these days, much of the …
More Pix And Video From That New Screen-rich Ikea In Central London May 5, 2025 by Super User A reader sent along some pix and videos shot at the new Ikea on London’s Oxford high street. While screens in Ikeas is not a new thing, the scale and use of screens in this new store is well beyond some flat panels on columns and in some of the scenes the retailer sets up …
Mimo Shifts Product Manufacturing To Korea, Taiwan For Trade Compliance And Hedge Against Trade Volatility May 2, 2025 by Super User When I was in Taiwan for a week last fall, just days before the U.S. election, the subject of TAA compliance came up repeatedly – based on vendors looking for ways to ensure they could sell finished products to U.S. government agencies. The Trade Agreements Act, briefly, requires that products sold to the U.S. government …
Ikea Opens Screen-Filled City Store On London’s Busiest High Street May 2, 2025 by Super User While London’s Oxford Street seems mostly to cater to tourists, based on all the candy and cheap souvenir shops, the UK capital’s busiest retail high street continues to add more reasons for digital signage nerds to visit. There is Outernet London at one end, by the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. There is the Flannels …
E Ink’s Premium, Richer-Color Spectra 6 Displays Coming By End Of Year As 75-Inch Poster Replacements April 22, 2025 by Super User E-paper manufacturer E Ink has now formally announced a large form-factor version of its premium color digital poster product – a 75-inch Spectra 6 display module that will be available as test samples to its third-party partners before the end of 2025. The Taiwan-based manufacturer had started showing, through partners like DynaScan, a 75-inch Kaleido …
SID Making Its Annual Display Nerd Fest More Visit-Friendly For Less Technical Attendees April 21, 2025 by Super User The Society For Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek conference and exhibit hall is really good event for anyone interested in seeing what’s in the works for pro display in three to five years, or longer, but it can be a bit bewildering for people who don’t have degrees in electrical engineering. The display nerd fest – …
Shenzhen’s CEOLED Display Makes Pitch For A 55-Inch Transparent OLED Kiosk April 21, 2025 by Super User The Shenzhen specialty firm CEOLED Display has made its main focus the hard slog of pushing pricey transparent OLED displays in a variety of configurations as commercial screen alternatives to more conventional and less costly product types like LCD. Now it has started marketing a transparent OLED-based kiosk with a 55-inch screen. The push on …
AUO Showcasing New Kind Of Energy-Sipping LCD, And Two-Sided Transparent MicroLED, At Touch Taiwan April 15, 2025 by Super User Probably the biggest vendor at Touch Taiwan this week in Guess Where is AUO, the giant white-label display manufacturer that has its main office about an hour south of Taipei. The company has pushed out an advancer piece talking about stand highlights, and the two that seem most interesting involve a new kind of energy-sipping …
Realfiction, PlayNitride Unveiling New Kind Of Glasses-Free 3D Display Based Around MicroLED April 15, 2025 by Super User Touch Taiwan starts tomorrow in Taipei and among the announcements advancing manufacturers’ showcases is one involving a tie-up between a domestic company, PlayNitride, and Danish specialty display company Realfiction, for a new kind of glasses-free 3D display that uses MicroLED. What is touted as the world’s first MicroLED-based 3D display is a 9-inch unit that …
