According to IDC global Q1 2016 PC monitor shipments reach over 29 million units, a 0.5% Y-o-Y increase (or -5.7% Q-o-Q decrease), even if some regions see some growth.

"IDC expects the global monitor market will continue to decline at rates around 3% year over year from 2018 through 2020," the analyst says. "However, there should be some pockets of growth along the way, as illustrated by the MEA region, which experienced its 2nd sequential gain in a row, recording 3.8% Q-o-Q growth in Q1 2016."

For full year 2016 the analyst forecasts shipments will total 114m units, while Q1 2017 shipments are expected to decline by -7.4% Y-o-Y to 27.1m units. This is due to the adoption of mobile devices, since by 2020 global shipments are set to total less than 100m.

You can see it at InfoComm for the first time in public. It won’t be available in Europe until Q1 2017.

Sony brings out CLEDIS (Crystal LED Integrated Structure) technology, its redefinition of high-end visual display solutions with a new large-scale canvas solution that builds on Sony’s self-emitting display capabilities-- but with ultrafine LEDs as the light source.

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Planar’s next-generation Clarity Visual Control Station (VCS) video wall processor includes significant improvements to simplify the capture, management and display of video wall content.

The updated Clarity VCS builds on Planar’s video wall processor platform by incorporating new features that make video wall processing technology more flexible and easy to use.

The video wall processor comes with a new user interface. It offers new network collaboration tools that improve teamwork in control room and corporate settings, while enabling administrators Read more...

E Ink, the company behind the ePaper display inside the Amazon Kindle, makes a colourful breakthrough-- Advanced Colour ePaper (ACeP), an ePaper display able to display up to 32000 colours.

Described as a first in electrophoretic displays (EPD) ACeP achieves full colour gamut, including all 8 primary colours, without need for a colour filter array (CFA). The colour display uses a single layer of electrophoretic fluid controlled via voltages compatible with TFT backplanes. Such a solution is described as more commercially viable than alternative solutions involving complex stacked backplane structures.

The company adds ACeP technology retains the ultra-low-power and paper-like readability of regular monochrome ePaper displays.