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Samsung Display to dominate Apple iPhone 14 OLED supply this year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reinforcing the message from DSCC about SDC’s OLED dominance (Q3’22 Flat Panel Display Financials Highlight Wide Gap Between LCD and OLED) The Elec reported that SDC expects to supply 70% of …

Tags:Apple| BOE| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung Display

2022 Black Friday Deals Setting New All-Time Lows for TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC has been looking at special offers for TVs in the Black Friday promotion period. The firm found that low LCD prices are reaching retail and TV pricing has reached an …

Tags:Black Friday| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Tablet Shipments rise over 20% sequentially in 3Q22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research said that tablet shipments rose 20% to 38.4 million units with increased orders from Apple. Apple and Samsung accounted for nearly 60% of volume in Q3 (Apple was 38.2%). …

Tags:Market Data| Supply Chain| tablets

BBC iPlayer Shows Strong Streaming for Sport

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The BBC today showed the England (6) v Iran (2) FIFA World Cup match in UltraHD with HLG HDR on its streaming iPlayer service. What We Think I felt the need …

Tags:BBC| OTT Video| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

Google Maps to Support AR-based Live View

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Android Police reported that Google is rolling out an app called Live View that will overlay information onto the real world for users in some cities (London, Los Angeles, New York, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| GPS

Niantic Shows AR Prototype & Nreal Air Supports Consoles

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We saw a couple more items after Qualcomm’s announcements last week.  9to5Google reported that Niantic showed a prototype of its new (“Not final”) design for an AR headset using the new Snapdragon …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Consoles

Rtings Asks – How Long Should a TV Last?

by Bob Raikes

Rtings.com, the US-based testing and review site, is conducting an interesting test of the longevity of TVs as they have a lot of sets that they keep after they have reviewed them. Looking at …

Tags:Repair| Right to Repair| TVs (TV Sets)| warranty

Ennostar Sues Amazon over Epistar Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ennostart, the merged company of Epistar and Lextar, sent us a release in Chinese that said that the firm has started litigation in Texas, USA, charging Amazon of infringing ‘at least …

Tags:Amazon| LED| Litigation| Patents| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Links Week Starting 21st November 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week.  Comcast To Bring Dolby Vision HDR World …

Tags:Advertising| Apple| Application Processors| Awards| China| Desktop Monitors| Events| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphone Market| Sports and Stadiums| Voice Input

Top-5 notebook brands see shrinking shipments in October

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research reported that the combined shipments in October from the top five notebook brands (excluding Apple) were down 13% from September and nearly 40% down on last year. Lenovo went past …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Notebooks| ODMs & OEMs| Supply Chain

Too Late for Christmas iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat-tip to Macworld for pointing out that the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max supply issues mean that it’s now too late to get one of those models in time for …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Smartphones| Supply Chain