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14th edition of Scat kicks off tomorrow
MUMBAI: The 14th edition of Scat which positions itself as South Asia’s largest tradeshow of the Indian satellite and cable TV industry kicks off tomorrow at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai.
The event which runs from 25 – 27 October 2005 will see different television technologies and hardware on display. Over 10,000 cable TV professionals are expected to attend the event.
Around 80 companies from India, America, Germany, Korea and China will display their product lines. Trai chairperson Pradip Baijal will inaugurate Scat 2005 tomorrow at 10:30 am. Trai will also have an open house interactive session on 26 October 2005 at 12:30 pm. Questions from the media and the public on the cable and satellite industry will be fielded by Trai representatives.
At the event DD Mumbai will be demonstrating Digital Terrestial Transmissions (DTT) for the DD News Channel. These transmissions permit crystal clear reception of Doordarshan even in moving vehicles such as cars, trains and buses throughout Mumbai. The service will be formally launched in January 2006.
Several stalls at the show will be demonstrating low cost digital headends, implemented using transmodulators. Earlier headends cost Rs. 20 million. Now with transmodulators they cost around Rs. 100,000. Scat says that this new technology will permit even medium and small size cable networks to provide digital cable TV, capable of offering more than 1000 channels, using digital set top boxes. These upgrades will provide Indian viewers with enhanced facilities in the immediate future.
At the event some stalls will also demonstrate set top boxes (STBs) for free to air (FTA) television. Last year around three million FTA STBs were sold in the country.
SEOUL: In the eternal battle between gamers demanding lightning-fast refresh rates and professionals craving pixel-perfect clarity, LG Display reckons it has found détente. The South Korean display titan is unveiling the world’s first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor panel that marries an RGB stripe structure with a blistering 240Hz refresh rate—a combination previously thought incompatible, like oil and water or fashion and function.
The breakthrough lies in how the pixels are arranged. RGB stripe structure lines up red, green and blue subpixels in neat rows, banishing the colour bleeding and fringing that plague lesser screens when you park your nose close to the display. It is the difference between reading crisp text and squinting at a rainbow-tinged mess. OLED panels using this method existed before, but they topped out at a sluggish 60Hz—fine for spreadsheets, useless for fragging opponents in first-person shooters.
LG Display’s engineering wizardry changes the game. By cranking the refresh rate to 240Hz whilst maintaining that pristine RGB stripe layout, the company has produced a panel that works equally well for colour-critical design work and twitchy gaming sessions. Better still, the panel incorporates Dynamic Frequency & Resolution technology, letting users toggle between ultra-high-definition at 240Hz and full-HD at a frankly ludicrous 480Hz. That is fast enough to make your eyeballs sweat.
The specs are suitably impressive: 160 pixels per inch for exceptional detail, optimised performance for Windows and font-rendering engines, and colour accuracy that should please the Photoshop brigade. LG Display achieved this by boosting the aperture ratio—the percentage of each pixel that actually emits light—and applying what it coyly describes as “various new technologies.” Translation: years of R&D and probably some sleepless nights.
Existing high-end gaming OLED monitors have relied on RGWB structures (which add a white subpixel) or triangular RGB arrangements. Both work, but neither delivers the sharpness that professionals demand. LG Display’s new stripe pattern is tailored specifically for monitor use, a recognition that staring at a screen from two feet away demands different engineering than watching telly from across the room.
The company is betting big on this technology, targeting the high-end monitor market where it already commands roughly 30 per cent of global OLED panel production. Among gaming OLED panels in mass production, LG Display claims world-leading specs across refresh rate, response time and resolution—a trifecta that sounds like marketing bluster until you check the numbers.
“Technology is the foundation of leadership in the rapidly growing OLED monitor market,” says LG Display head of the large display business unit Lee Hyun-woo. He promises to keep pushing “differentiated technologies compared to competitors”—corporate-speak for staying ahead of Chinese rivals snapping at LG’s heels.
The new panel will debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where LG Display plans to woo customers and expand its lineup. Initial rollout targets high-end gaming and professional monitors, the sweet spot where people actually pay premiums for superior screens rather than settling for whatever came with their laptop.
Whether this technology reshapes the monitor market or remains a niche luxury depends on two things: pricing and production scale. But for now, LG Display has pulled off something rare—a genuine technical leap that solves a real problem. Gamers get their speed, designers get their clarity, and LG gets bragging rights. In the cutthroat world of display tech, that counts as a win.
