Year: 2022

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Survey: 86% Europeans will watch World Cup at home on TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting a survey commissioned by TCL in five countries of Europe (UK, France, Germany, Poland and Spain), on TV and the World Cup, Advanced Television reported that  61% will follow the …

Tags:Europe| Market Data| Sports and Stadiums| TCL| TV Viewing

Lextar Wins Award for Integrated LED Drivers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lextar sent us a press release in Chinese that set out that that the company has won a Smart Display Industrial Alliance (SDIA*) award for its actively driven microLEDs. Lextar_release_20221124-1.docx The firm said …

Tags:Awards| LED Drivers| MicroLED

Links Week Ending 25th November 2022

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 end of this week.  LG Display: All new OLED TV panels produced …

Tags:BBC| Broadcast| Desktop Monitors| Field Monitors| HDTV| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| HP Inc| LED| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLEDs| Patents| UK (United Kingdom)| USB Monitors| Virtual Sets

Foxconn Chinese iPhone Plant in Unrest Breakout

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reports that ‘hundreds of workers; have have joined in with unrest at the Foxconn Zhengzhou factory, breaking surveillance cameras and smashing windows. The outbreak is said to have been triggered …

Tags:Apple| China| Foxconn (Honhai)| iPhone

Samsung Display Nullifies LG Display’s OLED patent

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that SFC Co Ltd, a joint venture in Korea of Samsung Display and Japanese chemical firm Hodogaya won a battle with LG Display over patent number 2277303 in June of …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| Litigation| OLED Materials| Patents| Samsung Display

Qatar 2022: E-paper displays for the soccer World Cup

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Papercast said that it has installed 23″ ePaper displays for passenger information in public transport in Qatar just in time for the World Cup and claims that the project is “one of the …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Outdoor Displays| Transport

Epistar Signs for Collaboration with PlayNitride

by Bob Raikes

What They Say PlayNitride has done a deal with Epistar for the PlayNitride Display Co Ltd to collaborate with Epistar to build a 6” Micro LED Chip-On-Wafer (COW) production line at a site to be …

Tags:Investment| MicroLED| Taiwan

DXOMark Rates the Google Pixel 7

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXOMark had a good look at the Google Pixel 7. The site rated the display performance as ‘excellent… for its segment’ and an improvement from the Pixel 6. It was close …

Tags:Google| Smartphones| Testing

Forecast: US connected video devices to top 1.1 Billion

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced TV published a forecast from Kagan for internet-connected video devices in the US that predicts a CAGR of 2.3% from 2021-26 with around 8.5 devices per household remaining broadly static …

Tags:Consoles| Forecasts| Market Data| OTT Video| Smartphone Market| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Christmas Buying Plans Revealed in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU in Germany said that it expects a boost to spending still, over the Christmas period, because of bonuses at this time of year. The group used YouGov to survey …

Tags:Germany| Market Data| Retail

Samsung and LG make over two-thirds of premium TVs sold worldwide

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting data attributed to Omdia, the KED said that Samsung took 51.1% of the premium TV market ($2,500 and above) in the first three quarters of the year with LG coming …

Tags:Hisense| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLED TVs| Samsung| sony| TCL| TV Set Market| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi