LG Electronics USA Business Solutions today announced that its brand new Dual-View Flat OLED Display, the first digital signage solution to offer OLED technology to the U.S. commercial marketplace, will begin shipping next month. This high-end display leads LG’s new  commercial OLED portfolio, which also includes the customizable Dual-View Curved Tiling OLED Display, both renowned […]

As many of my readers will know, I have just returned from the ISE show in Amsterdam. As many of you may know, from my articles, blogs and podcasts, I am pretty enthusiastic about this particular show. Not only does it combine InfoComm and CEDIA, it also features more exhibits of products and product lines […]

OK, folks, this show is tiring. I am sitting here at lunchtime on Day 3 of the (now) four-day show, wondering if my new sneakers will make it through four full days. However, this morning Annabelle Kayye and I got a number of great interviews… First, we sat down for a discussion of 4K scaling […]

Have you ever been abducted by an alien? No? Well, me neither, but I think we’ve all heard the tales. One night, while out in the woods, a light shines from above. Someone looks up to be blinded by the light and instantly levitates off of the ground and is pulled into the ship, where […]

This morning Planar announced the new Planar LookThru OLED transparent display, based on a prototype display first shown at ISE 2015 (and which earned a rAVe Best of ISE 2015 award for Best Overall New Product). The product will first be available in one size, a 55″ 1080p display, and available with and without touch […]

By Jimmy Kim DisplaySearch Ultra-slim has become a main feature for mobile PCs, and TVs are also trying to capitalize on this trend. Recently, Sony officially launched its Bravia X900C and X910C series LCD TVs described as having “ultra-thin floating styles” with only 4.9 mm thickness. With OLED TV being promoted with under 5.0 mm […]

Editor’s note: This blog was written as an introduction to display technologies for non-industry insiders. Everyone can use a refresher though, so we’re reprinting here anyway. OLED! LED!  Plasma(RIP)!  There are, today, quite a few technologies for video displays. What does it mean? What’s best? Today we’ll talk about video displays. This is an AV […]

Planar Systems will be demo’ing their new transparent OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2015. Since the 55” prototype at ISE will use OLED, and it’s designed to be a see-through display, there’s no need for a backlight or enclosure like you have in a standard transparent LCD. This will […]

By Charles Annis DisplaySearch Apple’s widely-anticipated entry into the smart watch market would be the company’s first major new product foray in several years. With Apple’s unparalleled functionality and design capabilities, as well as market clout, the “iWatch” could be just what smart watches need to move into the mainstream. In addition, the iWatch will […]

By Yoonsung Chung DisplaySearch As the LCD industry matures and standardizes, industry players find it harder to differentiate. At the same time, AMOLED is competing in key markets such as smartphone and tablet PC displays, in part due to their color performance. One response to this situation is adoption of quantum dots, which promise high […]

Despite some negative stereotypes about people who enjoy video games, most modern games have a social focus. From massive multi-player games that host thousands of people in the same persistent world like World of Warcraft and Dota II, to party matching systems for match based games, which is most of them. Even solitary games now […]

Rumors have been flying today because of a story written by the Nikkei Asian Review claiming that Sony is getting out of OLED TVs to focus on 4K LCD TVs. On the other hand, we have seen reports that quote Sony as denying this development. What exactly is going on is unclear, but it is […]

Since reaching a peak in 2011, the global TV market has seen continuous declines, falling by 6 percent in 2012 and by 3 percent in 2013. LCD TV shipment growth fell into single digits in 2011, experienced its first decline in 2012, and grew by only 2 percent in 2013, which was not enough to […]

The new curve TVs are an interesting display development that found much traction since first released in 2013.  New LCD models were introduced at the recent CES and follow-up DSE trade shows in January and February respectively. Some see the new curved large display as a gimmick, and that it is an example of engineers […]

Recent research has discovered a new approach to Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) that may reduce or eliminate the need for the rare (and costly) metals needed to manufacture OLED displays. Thanks to collaborative research at Regensburg, University of Bonn, University of Utah, and MIT — the cost and impact of OLED displays will be […]

By Paul Gagnon DisplaySearch Along with my colleagues, I attended the LGE US press conference this morning to kick off our coverage of CES 2014. LGE has held the opening press conference at CES on Press Day for a number of years now, and the press corps was in full attendance. Other key unveilings were […]

Growing demand from large TV panels is expected to increase OLED material revenues at a compound annual growth rate of 67 percent through 2017, even as material revenue from mobile phones slows after 2014. According to the Quarterly OLED Materials Report from NPD DisplaySearch, revenues from organic materials used in the emission and common layers […]

There are two major areas of buzz in the display market right now. The first is 4K, (or really 2160p), a technology that is arguably not ready for prime time for most applications until the content catches up to the standard (if you missed my thoughts on 4K, see them here). The second display technology […]

As with all new display technologies, the first generation is expensive, but we expect the second generation of curved OLEDs from both LG and Samsung will be half the $15,000 list price these new 55″ displays carry at today’s official launch in New York City. OLED has been talked about for years, and at InfoComm, […]

I took a picture of the new Sony 4K OLED display at the Sony booth and you’d have thought I had tried to steal something. Someone from Sony Japan quickly come over to me and asked me to delete my photo as they weren’t allowing any pics to be taken of the super-secret 55″ OLED-based […]

By Chris Chinnock DisplayDaily Having just returned from SID Display Week in Vancouver, I am both encouraged by the continual innovation and progress of display and related technologies, but troubled by many other factors that will affect the health of the display industry. And I am certainly not alone in this conclusion as many, many […]

By Ken Werner By my count, LG missed three promised deadlines last year for the commercial introduction of its 55-inch OLED-TV set. Samsung, apparently never happy with the idea of bringing OLED-TVs to market before their time, grudgingly said it, too, would introduce a 55-inch OLED-TV in 2012, but when LG missed its final deadline of […]

According to a new market research report, Global Display Market (2012 – 2017) published by MarketsandMarkets, the total global display market is expected to reach $164.24 billion by 2017, at a CAGR of 3.1 percent from 2012 to 2017. The global display market encompasses many technologies: E-ink, OLED, TFT-LCD, LED-LCD, LED, DLP, LCoS, and Plasma. […]

Sony and Pansonic’s announcement that they will jointly develop OLED TV displays with mass production in 2013 puts them – along with Chinese and Taiwanese panel makers – in the race to catch up with Samsung and LG Display in the development of OLED TV. However, despite hopes that OLEDs would soon revitalize the TV industry, it certainly will not have an impact in 2012. […]

Today, Panasonic and Sony have made their partnership in OLED (organic light emitting diode) production official, announcing that they will create a joint-owned factory to be on-line in 2013. They plan to hit the market with competitively priced TVs to rival those that will be launched by LG and Samsung by the end of the year. SMBC Nikko […]

Just off the heels of their breakup with Samsung in LED-lit LCD’s, Sony has re-partnered — but this time with Panasonic and it’s for OLED production. The agreement, to be officially announced Wednesday, will tie Panasonic and Sony together with a joint-owned OLED manufacturing plan – making sizes up to 90″ eventually, which will start production early next year. OLED (organic […]

LG’s famed 55″ OLED will start shipping in late April, costing about $8,000. The LG 55EM9600 debuted at CES and is the largest OLED to ship so far. OLED offers better blacks (and also, whiter whites) than LCD technology and less power usage due to its structure, which is basically a 100 percent solid-state compound […]

Fresh out of the gate here at CES minus one, aka, “Press Day,” the hot rivalry between Samsung and LG just turned white-hot at the blockbuster introductions of not one, but two, 55-inch OLED TVs (using two different technologies) from the two Korean CE giants. First came LG’s 55-inch OLED (uses white OLED, plus a […]

Written by Jennifer Colegrove After a very quiet CES last year, AMOLED TV is already a hot topic at this year’s CES. On Jan. 9, Samsung delivered the biggest OLED news at its press conference. Samsung surprised everyone by showcasing a 55” AMOLED TV that is supposedly coming to market this year. Samsung emphasized that […]

In what will be the largest OLED flat panel to actually see the market, LG will launch a 55″ OLED display next week at the CES show in Las Vegas. In addition to being big, it’s expected to be less than 3.5 mm thick. Yes, that’s right, that would be less than 2/10ths of an […]

This writer thinks it’s possible there will never be flying cars. Every sci-fi writer from Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury and Rod Serling has referenced them for over one hundred years. None of those visionaries considered the astonishingly simple reality upon us now: everything you can think of can be accessed instantly through flat panel […]

OLEDs have their drawbacks, but they are now widely recognized as cutting edge displays in their commercial growth phase. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. But what if you could make an Organic Light Emitting Transistor – an OLET? Would that offer advantages for displays? Let’s find out. In an interview with the publication […]