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Links Week Ending 11th March 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. 8K screens to see the Sagrada …

Tags:Application Processors| CPUs| Desktop Monitors| Mediatek| MMD (AOC Philips)| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Testing| Touch| VideoConferencing| Virtual Sets

Epson Gets Us Out to See a New Bright Projector

by Bob Raikes

An actual manufacturer event! After a couple of years of very few live events, Epson held a live launch of its latest rental/staging/installation projectors. I registered and got along to the Twickenham Rugby Stadium …

Tags:Epson| Events| Installation Projectors| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LCD Projectors (3LCD)| Rental and Staging

Japan’s Sharp bets on VR hardware as ‘metaverse’ takes off

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp is beginning to benefit from the work it has done over time to develop displays for VR, especially since the Foxconn takeover in 2016. The Nikkei reported …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| sharp| Virtual Reality

Acer Still Enjoying Covid Boost

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer seems to be continuing to surf the wave that was generated by Covid in its key areas and said that its revenues in February were up 12.7% on last year …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data

Samsung TV Plus, Tennis Channel team for first FAST tennis offer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Next TV reports that the Tennis Channel’s T2 content will be available on the Samsung TV Plus advertising supported service in the US. T2 is youth-targeted and will include matches from …

Tags:AVOD| Samsung| Smart TV| Sports and Stadiums

Roku CEO predicts LG, Samsung and Vizio will Give Up their Own TV OSes

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, that smartTV makers will ‘eventually’ give up and license operating systems from Roku, Amazon or Google. He sees an …

Tags:Amazon| Google| LG Electronics (LGE)| Operating Systems| Roku| Samsung

Dispelix and AAC Announce Strategic Partnership

by Artem Alekseenko

Dispelix, the leader in see-through waveguide displays for AR & MR wearables, and AAC Technologies Holdings Inc., the world-leading solutions provider for smart devices, announce a strategic partnership to ensure the AR & MR …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Wearables

Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samung has been attacked by a lot of users in Korea over reports that an add-in, the ‘Game Optimizing Service’, or GOS, may kick in to …

Tags:CPUs| Korea| Samsung| Smartphones

LG Display Developing two OLED panels for Apple’s future iPads

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec has continued to drip feed information (well, rumours, really!) about the expected switch by Apple to OLEDs for its iPads. As we reported last week, Samsung has started developing …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display| tablets

2021 OLED Shipments Rise 25% Y/Y

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC said that 242 million OLEDs were shipped in Q4 2021, up 11% on Q3, bringing shipments for the year to 831 million, up 25%. Smartphones dominated with 638 million, up …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLED Monitors| OLED Notebooks| OLED TVs| OLEDs| QD OLEDs| Samsung Display| Smartphones