2021 – Page 32 – Display Daily

Samsung Pauses Plans for 70-80″ microLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Electronics has taken a planned 70″-80″ microLED out of its range of TVs for 2022, leaving an 89″, a 101″ and a 114″ set in the …

Tags:MicroLED| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)

No More Burning Displays – At Least in DACH

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported a talk at the Best Medientechnik 2021 event that highlighted the issues of fireproofing of digital signage. The integration supplier, Ben Hur, collaborated with Lang AG and the Job …

Tags:Digital Signage| Health and Safety

SES adds HD+ IP for Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SES has extended the provision of its German HD+ service to IP only subscribers. The service provides 50 HD channels for €6 per month. There is also an option for HD+ …

Tags:HD+ (Germany)| OTT Video| SES

‘Meh’taverse Apologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies – yesterday our CMS decided that it should publish an article on the ‘Meh’ taverse by a journalist I know just after we had run our daily email test and …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| The Metaverse

AUO & Innolux Report on October

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AUO & Innolux released their results for October. Innolux was up in revenue by 7.4% on last year, but down by 9.0% from September in value. The firm was down 7.1% …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Innolux| Taiwan

Sony Files for Foveated Rendering Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UploadVR reported that Sony has applied for a patent to cover ‘Eye Tracking To Adjust Region-Of-Interest (ROI) For Compressing Images For Transmission’. Foveated rendering is explicitly mentioned later in the document. …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Patents| PlayStation| Virtual Reality

iFixit confirms iPhone 13 disables Face ID after third-party screen repair

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit reports that the iPhone13 ‘completely disables’ its flagship Face ID functionality when you replace its screen. The tests have been duplicated by other repairers. The blog said “The iPhone 13 …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Right to Repair| warranty

Google could release its first foldable Pixel in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google said that Google may have a foldable Pixel smartphone in 2022. The site suggests that the firm might have to downgrade the 2021 Pixel 6 smartphone which is bigger than …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Google| Smartphones

Meta to Retail Headsets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times reported that Meta has discussed possibly opening retail stores (probably to be called Meta Store) globally to promote its VR and, later, AR hardware. Work on the …

Tags:Apple| Facebook/Meta| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

3,150 HD channels on SES

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In its quarterly results, satellite operator SES Astra said that the number of HD channels that it is supporting is now 3,150 (+8% YoY) which “reflected early signs of broadcasters considering …

Tags:Financial Data| HDTV| Satellite| SES

ASUS Announces Vivobook 13 Slate OLED (T3300)

by Artem Alekseenko

ASUS has a mission to deliver incredible experiences that enhance the lives of people everywhere, and the newly announced Vivobook 13 Slate OLED does exactly that. This fun-filled 2-in-1 Windows 11 marvel — the …

Tags:Asus| Notebooks| OLEDs

TV as an App – With Cloud Support

by Bob Raikes

Back at CES in 2010, I met in a hotel suite with a firm that had a new approach to TV that struck me as significant, useful and important. A friend had gone to …

Year: 2021