Inkjet Printing Tech Expected To Lower Costs, Up Capacity For Big OLED Screens July 4, 2019 by Super User The research firm IHS Markit says OLED display costs are expected to drop as technology that effectively prints the displays matures and production capacity expands. Inkjet-printed (IJP) organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology is set to enter mass production next year, with capacity expected to rise as much as 12X from 2020 through 2024, …
InfoComm Day 2: No Great Leaps Forward, But Many Subtle Advances June 14, 2019 by Super User Tons of great conversations and product demos on Thursday at InfoComm 2019. While it is very, very accurate to say there was/is not a whole pile that is strikingly new at this trade show, as you might expect, when you dig in, there’s lots going on and lots of subtle but meaningful improvements or innovations. …
LG Formally Launches Transparent OLED For US Market June 11, 2019 by Super User It appears LG’s next big thing to be showcased at InfoComm this week will be quite familiar to much of that show’s pro AV crowd. Transparent OLED has been around for several years, and definitely demo’d at trade show booths, but LG Business Solutions says it is officially launching its commercial, 55-inch digital signage display …
Planar Revives Line Transparent OLED Line; Showing At InfoComm June 4, 2019 by Super User Planar has resumed marketing a transparent OLED, about five years after first launching a product and then pulling it because of supply issues from the original manufacturer/supplier. The new LookThru Transparent OLED Display, says Planar in a press release, builds on the frameless glass design of the original version, enabling customers to overlay digital content and imagery …
Vancouver Office Tower Uses OLED Video Wall To Replace Directory, Renew Lobby May 2, 2019 by Super User This is a tiled LG 2 by 6 OLED video wall built into the lobby wall of an office tower in downtown Vancouver, BC. The displays are set into a bamboo wood wall set against a granite wall. They replaced a physical building directory. The project at Park Place, at 666 Burrard Street, was put …
Missed ISE?: This Futuresource Report Gives A Solid Tech Rundown, And It’s Free February 14, 2019 by Super User If you were unable to get to Integrated Systems Europe, but very badly want and need to know what all was shown and demo’d there, you are in luck. The market research/consultancy firm Futuresource had several people fanned out in the many halls of the Amsterdam RAI, and has produced a comprehensive 63-page report on …
Leyard’s R&D Head Sam Phenix Dishes On LED, OLED, VR And Everything Display February 13, 2019 by Super User I managed to squeeze in a few podcast interviews in and around ISE last week, and this is the first – a long-planned and finally realized talk with Sam Phenix, who is the VP of research and development for Planar and Leyard. That puts her in the middle of everything happening in the display market …
Watch Video Of LG’s Insane 260-Screen OLED Demo At CES January 24, 2019 by Super User Good … freaking … Lord!!! Here’s a video of the absolutely massive curving OLED video wall that was the unmissable eye candy for LG at its booth earlier this month at CES in Vegas. I have not been briefed on what LG will do at ISE – which is also a monster trade show. In …
A Huge 260-Screen OLED Waterfall Scene Greets LG’s CES 2019 Stand Visitors January 10, 2019 by Super User Last year, CES visitors to LG’s stand walked along an OLED screen canyon. This year, there’s an OLED waterfall … kinda sorta. LG’s sprawling CES booth, by the main entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center, has 260 OLEDs in a dramatic, wavy waterfalls-like set-up. The OLED Falls exhibit has 76 concave, 72 convex and 112 flat …
First OLED, Then QLED, And Now ULED January 8, 2019 by Super User First there was OLED. Then QLED, which looks like OLED but is actually LCD tech. Now there is also ULED, which is like QLED, but different. The Chinese display manufacturer Hisense has started touting, via its CES appearance, ULED displays – which are conventional 4K LCDs that have a second LCD layer, using Quantum Dots …