Year: 2022

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Vestel Launches 97XX 4K UHD Set-Top Box Series

by Artem Alekseenko

Vestel, one of the top three consumer electronics manufacturers in Europe, announced the launch of its 97XX Series of 4K UHD Set-top Boxes. Designed to deliver a seamless, exceptional value home entertainment experience from …

Tags:Projectors| Vestel

German DVB-I Project underway

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A project in Germany to develop an internet-delivered service to provide linear channels and compete with terrestrial broadcast is being developed using the DVB-I standard. Firms involved include Sony, TPVision (Philips …

Tags:Broadcast| DVB| IBC 2022| Streaming Video

TV-makers Seek New Angles to Remain Competitive

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment looked at functions that TVs could perform beyond simply streaming TV content and reported that Samsung had said that viewers of its advertising supported TV Plus service have watched …

Tags:Samsung| Smart TV

Pico to Move to Mixed Reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment said that the next Pico VR headset (from the ByteDance subsidiary) will support pass-through VR and mixed reality operation. The same feature is expected to be in the forthcoming …

Tags:Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Samsung, LG eye niche sectors to boost tablet sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Because of the slowdown in the global market for tablets since the pandemic, the KED reports that both Samsung and LG are planning to expand more into niche tablet categories. The …

Tags:Education| Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| Rugged Displays| Samsung| tablets

IFA Numbers Released – 2022 is 34% Down

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IFA Berlin said that just over 161,000 people attended the show over the five days and claimed that 2,500 journalists arrived from 100 countries. 80% of the exhibition space was taken …

Tags:IFA 2022

4 of 5 chip experts say Korea faces ‘worst crisis’ in decade

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although Samsung Display is doing well with its OLED sales to Apple (Samsung set for record Q3 profit on iPhone 14 series shipments), the same is not true of other Korean …

Tags:Apple| China| Korea| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Supply Chain

Mid-sized and Small TV Sales Hit in Europe

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting data from GfK released around the IFA show, DigitalTVEurope said that the European TV market saw a drop of 6% in value in the first half of the year, with …

Tags:Europe| Market Data| Pricing| TV Set Market| TVs (TV Sets)

SEL Develops 5,291ppi Micro OLED Display Integrating Si CMOS and OSFET

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLEDNet.com published an article highlighting that Japan’s Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL) has developed a 5,291 ppi microOLED that it discussed at the recent IMID event. The development is intended to solve …

Tags:IMID| Microdisplays| OLEDs| Oxide TFTs

AUO & Innolux Down >50% in Revenue on August 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AUO and Innolux released their monthly data. AUO said its revenue was down 8.1% month on month and 51% year on year in August, although panel area shipped increased 2.4% month …

Xperi and Vestel on a Roll at IFA

by Bob Raikes

Just before IFA, Xperi announced its new Tivo OS for TV and revealed that Vestel was its first partner. Both companies were at the show and I was able to talk to both of …

Tags:Content Discovery| Operating Systems| Rovi| Smart TV| Tivo