Conflicting Reports: Korean Display Giants Either Dialing Back Or Trying New Ways To Make Large MicroLED Displays July 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes There are a couple of interesting and conflicting reports about the interests and efforts of two giant electronics brands in the still-emerging microLED display sector. One report says Samsung and LG are dialing back their activity and investments, while a separate report suggests Samsung and tech partners are going after a new way to produce …
There’s Digital Signage From Bow To Stern On This New German River Boat July 9, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, invidis A media ship is an unusual idea. But the concept of a floating newsroom, a stage for live journalism and a digital signage location for events has become established. The Pioneer One has been sailing on the Spree in Berlin for two years now. Now a sister ship, the Pioneer …
FutureSource’s InfoComm 2024 Post-Show Report Now Out As Free Download July 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK research firm Futuresource Consulting routinely generates post-show wrap-up reports that get into detail about what its analysts saw on the exhibit hall floor of events like ISE and the recent InfoComm show in Las Vegas. The InfoComm 2024 one is now out (here’s the download page), and while the free, information-rich deck covers …
Here’s A Futuresource Video Recap Of Emerging Display Tech From Displayweek Show May 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Ted Romanowitz of the UK research firm Futuresource Consulting focuses his analyst eyes on the LED sector, so it is not surprising that he headed down from Portland, OR to Silicon Valley this week to take in the Society For Information Display’s annual nerd-fest Display Week. He’s produced a quick recap video that’s worth a …
SID’s Display Nerd Fest This Week Includes Much Brighter OLEDs, Auto Dashboards As Displays May 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display’s annual Display Week symposium and exhibition is on right now in San Jose – attracting the very technical side of the digital signage and pro AV community, as well as all kinds of engineers working in everything from automobile dashboard designs to military systems. I’ve been to this event, which …
Apple Pulling Plug On MicroLED Smartwatch R&D Work Has Larger Display Implications: YOLE Analysis March 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes The research and analysis firm Yole Group has posted an interesting and deep insights about the overall prospects for the microLED display industry in the wake of news that Apple has abandoned plans for microLED-based smartwatches, and laid off most of the team that had been working on the project. While it is/was one product …
The ISLE LED Trade Show On Now In Shenzhen. Not There, But We Have Pix And Observations From The Floor March 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the biggest LED display trade shows on the planet is on right now in Shenzhen, China, with north of 100,000 people exhibited to walk the floors of what’s called ISLE – short for International Signs & LED Exhibition. Here’s a Day 1 highlights video that provides a sense of what the event looks …
Video: Highlight Reel Of Samsung’s CES Booth, Including That Transparent MicroLED January 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes You can get a better look at at what’s arguably the most pro AV-relevant new tech at Samsung’s CES stand in this video, and with it some big hints about what the Korean giant will have at its big ISE stand at the end of the month. There are a few seconds and different angles …
Samsung Teases Frameless Transparent MicroLED Display At CES January 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit – Sam Rutherford/Engadget CES is this week in Las Vegas, and while a hell of a lot of the reporting that comes out of the giant consumer tech show will involve stuff that will never really be available to buy and use, there are glimpses as always of what’s coming somewhere down the …
LCD Flat Panel Production Starting To Make Shift From China To India: DSCC Prediction January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The display-focused research and consulting firm DSCC has an interesting (albeit nerdy) set of predictions up about what might happen in the next 12 months with the LCD, OLED and LED display businesses. I won’t go through them all, as you can read yourself (I think you might have to register). But here are two …
