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Consolidated Financial Highlights 21F Third Quarter EIZO

by Bob Raikes

What They Say High end monitor maker Eizo Corportation published its quarterly report. The result showed a good result for its fiscal Q3 with sales up 19.1% from ¥53.5 billion ($467 million) to ¥63.7 …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Eizo| Financial Data

Trendforce Summarises TV Markets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TrendForce put out results and a forecast for the TV market. It said that the higher prices for panels stalled the market and eventually the set market was down globally in …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| TVs (TV Sets)

World’s Fastest Gaming Monitor Hits 500 Hz Refresh Rate

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A Chinese news outlet, Sina, quoted by Tom’s Hardware and ComputerBase, reports that BOE has built a prototype/demo 500Hz 27″ FullHD monitor for gaming. The LCD uses an oxide backplane and …

Tags:BOE| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HFR - High Frame Rate| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

Tetos Treating Modules for Samsung’s MicroLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We were digging around about microLEDs when we stumbled on this article from a couple of months ago, that describes how a Korean company, Tetos, is supplying technology to connect together …

Tags:MicroLED| Production Technology| Samsung

Omdia Forecasts OLED Area and Applications

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Omdia published a press release that highlighted an ‘explosive increase’ in AMOLED display demand in 2021 as the area demand in 2021 is expected to reach 14.2 m² million, a 52.0% …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| OLED TVs| OLEDs| Smartphones

Counterpoint Releases Smartphone Data on World, China and US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published some interesting data on the smartphone market in the US and China as well as looking at the overall development of the market over the last five years. …

Tags:Apple| China| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market| USA| Xiaomi

Sky sheds 200,000 subs in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the report on Q4 from parent company, Comcast, Sky is reported to have lost 198K subscribers in the UK, Germany and Italy. Revenue was down in Q4 by 2.4% to …

Tags:Comcast| Europe| Financial Data| Sky

Schott’s High-index AR Wafer Halves Waveguide Weight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At Photonics West, Schott highlighted its high refractive index glass RealView 1.9 lightweight ultra which it said allows ‘up to 50% lighter’ waveguides without reducing image quality. It also said that …

Tags:AR Glasses| Glass| LED| MEMs Displays

7-Eleven Japan Tests Touchless Checkouts

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that 7-Eleven Japan is experimenting in six stores in Tokyo with ‘holographic’ touch screens that feature a virtual touch screen but do not use physical touch. The terminals cannot …

Tags:Japan| Touchless Touch

Apple Enjoys the Holiday Quarter

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple published its Q4 and full year results and the firm hit a new record of $123.9 billion in Q4, up 11%, with $34.6 billion in profit. In a call, Tim …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| PCs

RealD Looks at Entertainment on the Move

by Bob Raikes

I tend to think of RealD as a supplier of cinema technology in display or image processing, although it also has other technologies. I remember seeing a cool idea for changing the apparent direction …

Tags:Automotive| Dual Panel LCDs| Privacy| RealD

Philips: 4K TVs with OLED EX panel and FreeSync Premium

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display made a lot of noise around CES about its OLED EX panels but TV makers have been less enthusiastic about trumpeting the use of the technology. However, the Philips …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| OLEDs| Philips