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Brazil Chooses LCEVC Codec Enhancement – UHD HDR @ 5 Mbps

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We’ve been following V-Nova and its Codecs for a number of years now. Just a couple of weeks ago, we missed a release from the firm that said that MPEG-5 LCEVC …

Tags:Brazil| Codecs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| UltraHD & 4K

Samba TV’s Q4’21 State of Viewership Report is Here!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samba TV released three reports on the ‘State of Viewership’ in TV in the US, the UK and Germany and in Australia. The reports look at the reach and impressions of …

Tags:Europe| Market Data| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

VR Headset Round Table Looks at AR v VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say XR Today published a ’round table’ of views about the XR industry with representatives of HTC Vive, Varjo, Arthur and Lenovo. Most of it is uncontroversial although Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

DSCC Updates on LCD TV Panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, DSCC put out a blog post highlighting the slowing down of TV LCD panel prices as price gets close to cash cost for some panel makers. Inventories are …

Tags:Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| TV Set Market

Hypervsn launches new-generation holographic displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hybervsn, which makes virtual displays based on spinning LEDs, has developed a new model that is larger and lighter, with a 0.65mm pitch and is said to produce 3,000 cd/m² of …

Tags:Digital Signage| LED

Nanosys Display Show Highlights QD-OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Nanosys Display Show on YouTube, hosted by Brian Berkeley, spoke to Samsung about the QD-OLED technology that Samsung Display, Dell and Sony showed at CES 2022. Chirag Shah of Samsung …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Nanosys| QD OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| WOLED (White OLED)

BMW Expands MyModes Interfaces

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Among the items announced by BMW at CES, there was a boost in the number of different interfaces for its BMW My Modes system. There are now five settings, up from …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2022| Software

Samsung unveiled three each Galaxy S22 phones and Tab 8 Tablets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung held its Unpacked event and announced new smartphones and a tablet. Full infographics are here and here. The key points from a display perspective were: S22 has a 6.1″ 1080 …

Tags:LCD displays| LTPO TFT| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets

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AUO & Innolux Release January Data

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AUO and Innolux released their results for January with the former saying that although it was down in revenue by 12.4% from December 2021, it was up by 4.5% year on …

Tags:AUO| Innolux| Taiwan

Samsung’s Infinity Screen to Shine in Super Bowl

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis highlighted that the Samsung Infinity Screen at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles (Samsung’s Infinity Screen) will be on show in the 56th Super Bowl this weekend. Infinity screen trivia …

Tags:LED| Samsung| Sports and Stadiums