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For Streaming Media, Everything Old Is New Again

by Pete Putman

A story published March 9 at Forbes illustrates how the video streaming landscape continues to shift dramatically. What started out largely as a science experiment 18 years ago with YouTube has now become the …

Tags:Broadcast| Disney| Netflix| Streaming Video| USA

Samsung Negotiations Continue over QD-OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Bizwire said that arguments about pricing are continuing to delay the introduction by Samsung Electronics of TVs based on Samsung Display’s QD-OLED technology. The site said that the VD …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| sony

Foxconn Hit by Covid Restrictions in China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Foxconn has shutdown its facility in Shenzen after Chinese authorities imposed a partial lockdown due to a rise in Covid-19 cases, Nikkei reported. There were reported to be 60 new infections …

Tags:China| Covid-19| Foxconn (Honhai)

Gurman’s view of Apple’s Plans

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Mac said that it has heard that Apple is developing a new version of the Pro Display XDR with higher resolution than the current 32″ 6016 x 3384 device. Bloomberg’s Apple …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Notebooks| PCs

Ukraine Vice PM Asks Asus to Shutter Russia Business

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tom’s Hardware reported that the Ukranian Vice President, Mykhailo Fedorov, made an appeal on Twitter to Asus to stop selling products to Russia. The blog reports that the Taiwan News had …

Tags:Acer| Asus| Russia| Taiwan| Ukraine

Metamerism and New Display Technologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal published an article that looked at the challenges of metamerism in different emerging display technologies and ways of compensating for this. (Does WCG Make More People …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Colour Quality

Samsung QD-OLED Soon?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Eagle-eyed observers spotted an advert for two Samsung QD-OLED TVs from Value Electronics in the US. The advert was still online when we looked. There are two model numbers, the QN65QS95B …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung

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LG lists the first 37.5-inch display with an ergo stand

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Prad.de reports on a new 37.5″ IPS monitor with 3840 x 1600 (21:9) resolution, 2300R curvature and 300 cd/m² of output with contrast of 1,000:1. Colour coverage is 95% of DCI-P3 …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)

Surface Haptic Technology is Being Applied to Flexible AMOLEDs

by Arthur Berman

A recent press release by Tanvas, Inc. (Chicago, IL), a developer of surface haptic technology, announced the results of a collaboration with “one of the world’s leading display suppliers.” The product of the collaboration …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Haptics| Touch

Infographic: Q4 2021 | Semiconductors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published its data on the semiconductor market in Q4 2021 which showed Samsung well ahead of Intel with strong DRAM and NAND sales. Major smartphone SoC and GPU vendors …

Tags:Broadcom| Nvidia| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| TSMC