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VESA Publishes Embedded DisplayPort Standard Version 1.5

by Artem Alekseenko

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced that it has published the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard version 1.5. Replacing eDP 1.4b, published in 2015, eDP 1.5 retains all key features of the previous specification …

Tags:DisplayPort| eDP| VESA

LGD Expects new WOLED Customers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display held its quarterly briefing for analysts and, as usual, there was some useful information. Highlights for us were: IT panels represented 45% of revenue, while TV was 32%, down …

Tags:Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)

Research: 71% US homes still pay-TV subs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say US analyst Leichtman Research Group said that 71% of US TV households have some form of pay TV service – down from 82% in 2016, 87% in 2011, and 86% in …

Tags:Pay TV| USA

Why There are Supply Chain Problems

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Economist Paul Kedrosky included an interesting chart on his daily feed of such things. It is from the US Bureau of Economic Activity (BEA) and highlighted the dramatic change in the …

Tags:Macroeconomics| Supply Chain

Links Week Ending 29th October 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Sixteen-nine’s Dave Haynes has a look a …

Tags:Apple| Cable| Infocomm 2021| iPhone| Pay TV| Samsung| sharp| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

LG With a Problem in LED Backlights?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to Dave Haynes of Sixteen:Nine.net for sending me an interesting collection of images of LG digital signs which seem to be very blue (see a few of the images …

Tags:Direct Backlights| LED| LG Electronics (LGE)| warranty

Best Buy stores will soon offer Samsung foldable repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that Best Buy in the US is now offering repairs for Samsung’s foldable smartphones as well as the Galaxy S and Note ranges. Some stores have done this …

Tags:Apple| Batteries| Best Buy| Foldable Devices| Repair| Right to Repair| Samsung| warranty

Pimax’s New Headset Boasts ’12K’ & MiniLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Pimax has announced a new ‘Reality 12K QLED’ headset for VR applications. The headset is built around 2 x 5.5″ miniLED QLED LCDs with 1200ppi and a claimed refresh rate of …

Tags:Virtual Reality

AOC High End Agon Monitors include a MiniLED model

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AOC has three new monitors in its Agon Pro gaming range. The 27″ AG274QXM (QuadHD @ 170 Hz), has a miniLED IPS panel (575 zones) with VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification and …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| MiniLED| MMD (AOC Philips)

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Sony Brings Compact Camera Sensor to Smartphone

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Sony announced the Xperia Pro-I smartphone which has the same sized 1″-type CMOS sensor as Sony’s RX100 VII compact camera. That’s the headline, but lens limitations mean that the used surface …

Tags:Cameras| Smartphones| sony