Year: 2021

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Omdia Updates on Streaming and HbbTV

by Bob Raikes

HbbTV held its 9th Symposium and Awards event in Paris – a mixture of the live and virtual. We picked up on the live stream and were interested to hear what Paul Gray, Director …

Tags:Europe| Operating Systems| OTT Video| Smart TV| Streaming Video| TV Viewing

Sigmaintell Looks at Smartphone Panels in Q3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell has reported that smartphone panel shipments dropped 6.5% year on year to 475 million in Q3, although YTD volumes are up 7.9% to 1.425 billion. OLED has boomed based on …

Tags:China| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market

Absen presents new MicroLED displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported that Absen has had an autumn launch of new LED displays. The Clear Cobalt series is designed for pitches between 0.7mm and 1.2mm. The displays uses flip-chip technology and …

Japan PC, TV shipments continue to decline in October

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that the ‘stay-at-home’ economy has slowed down in Japan with PC shipments in the country down 39.9% to 468K units in October and TVs down by 13% TO 369k …

Tags:Japan| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| TVs (TV Sets)

Black Friday Frog Kissing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There are a lot of press releases describing deals in the US on Black Friday. What We Think First, I want to wish all my US readers a very happy and …

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OQMented Adds Funds

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on a strategic deal between Dispelix and OQmented back in June (Dispelix and OQmented Form Strategic Partnership) and a couple of weeks ago, we reported that Dispelix had got …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Laser Projectors| Waveguide Display

Research: Italians families have 5 screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advance Television reported data from a survey by Auditel-Censis in Italy of over 20K homes that highlighted that in Italy there are around 14.5 million homes (46.6%) with SmartTVs, although only …

Tags:Italy| TV Viewing