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Vizio SmartCast Now has 15M Users

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At a Needham conference, Vizio said that it now has 15 million active SmartCast users up from 12 million in March 2021. The CFO, Adam Townsend, said that more than 85% …

Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| SVOD| USA| Vizio

Links Week Starting 17th January 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. Here’s a nice VFX show reel if …

Tags:Cinema| Colour Grading| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Google| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Netflix| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Pricing| Retail| USA

The Green Planet AR experience opening in London

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There is a new AR experience called ‘The Green Planet AR Experience’ that is due to open on February 11th in London. The event was reated by Factory 42 with BBC …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| BBC| Environment| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Samsung| Smartphones| UK (United Kingdom)

Asus Fog Clears a Little

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was confused earlier in the week as I had seen reports that an Asus notebook, the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 (2022) GX650 was using panels by BOE but I also …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| LCD displays| Notebooks

Omdia: OLED Could Take 10% of the Notebook Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED Info quoted some data from Omdia on OLED sales in IT applications. The report detailed that Omdia numbered the volume of notebook displays shipped in 2021 as 5.58 million with …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Notebooks| OLEDs

Graphene OLED Touch Layer Demonstrated

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Queen Mary University of London (which must have re-branded from Queen Mary College) working with Paragraf (Cambridge, UK) and Tokyo, Japan, have collaborated in a research project that used a monolayer …

Tags:Graphene| ITO| ITO Replacement| OLEDs

Atlanta DTH launches compact ATSC 3.0 digital TV receiver

by Bob Raikes

What They Say RapidTVNews reported that Atlanata DTH has a new dongle that can support ATSC 3.0. The unit is based on the established DGI 1011 SD/HD USB plug-in DTV tuner, the DGI-NexGen-Solo is …

Tags:ATSC| Streaming Dongles| USA

What Does 2022 Have in Store for the LCD Industry?

by Bob Raikes

As we’re at the start of a New Year and, whisper it quietly, if not at the end of the Covid pandemic, at least at the beginning of the end, I thought I would …

Tags:Crystal cycle| Forecasts| Large LCD Supply| LCD displays| Market Data| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)

LED TVs Bad for the Eyes?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The IT Chosun reported an interview with Oh Chang-ho of LG Display who said that miniLED TVs are bad for eye health compared to OLEDs. However, he welcomed the introduction of …

Tags:Health and Safety| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Materials