Year: 2021

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Roland Garros UHD Availability is Mixed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Roland-Garros tennis tournament in Paris has been a popular event for testing new TV technologies (e.g. HDTV via MPEG4 in 2006, 3D broadcast in 2010, UltraHD in 2013 etc) and …

Tags:France| FTA (Free to Air)| Satellite| Sports and Stadiums| Terrestrial (DTT)

ETRI Develops MicroLED Film

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat tip to MicroLED-Info for pointing me to a Korean language page that outlines how ETRI in Korea has made a film that can be used to hold microLEDs with transfer …

Tags:Korea| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

Paperlike Offers E Ink Monitor via Indiegogo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dasung has offered a 25.3″ E Ink monitor, the PaperLike 253 via Indiegogo and had raised $175K for a flexible goal with 24 days left. The monitor, which has 3200 x …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Desktop Monitors| E Ink

You’re Going to Hear About Smartkem Again

by Bob Raikes

I mentioned Smartkem in my comments last week about the SID Exhibition, but Beverley Brown, Chief Scientist at the firm, spoke at the DSCC/SID Business Conference in the Start-up session, and I spent some …

Tags:Electron Mobility & Transport| LTPS TFT| MicroLED| MiniLED| OLEDs| Organic TFTs| Oxide TFTs

AUO Supplies miniLED Panel for Acer DisplayHDR 1000 Notebook

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AUO said that it has worked with Acer to develop a new Predator Helios 500 Gaming Notebook with a 17.3 UltraHD resolution display using miniLED (with its AmLED adaptive miniLED technology) …

Tags:Acer| AUO| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| MiniLED| Notebooks

DisplayWeek 8K Symposium Short Takes

by Chris Chinnock

The Society of Information Displays (SID) recently had a virtual version of its main annual symposium and trade expo called DisplayWeek. This conference covers a wide range of display topics with some going deep …

Tags:Automotive| CPUs| Dual Panel LCDs| Intel| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

EMEA Smartphone Market Continues to Shine Despite New Lockdowns, Says IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

The EMEA smartphone market grew to a first-quarter record of 93.060 million units, according to the latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). This was a 20.9% increase over 1Q20, …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Europe| IDC| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Smartphone Market

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Not Much News Today….

by Bob Raikes

What They Say It’s the Memorial Day holiday in the US today, and I had the very unusual experience of getting no English Language press releases today from my main press release source! What …

CineWorld To Add 100 ScreenX Theatres

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Associated Press (AP) said that the CineWorld cinema chain in the UK plans to add 100 new ScreenX multi-screen installations to its locations. That will boost the number of ScreenX installations …

Tags:Cinema| UK (United Kingdom)

Next Gen Display Technologies Showcased @DisplayWeek 2021

by Sweta Dash

An exuberant display industry showcased their next generation display technologies at Virtual DisplayWeek 2021 during May 17 to 21. The display industry is continuing along the path of innovations by bringing in new technologies, …

Tags:EL Quantum Dots| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| MicroLED| MiniLED| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Small Medium LCDs