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Highlights of Early CES 2022 Display News

by Bob Raikes

Well, there was only one big thing that would have got me to Las Vegas this year – Samsung’s new QD-OLED technology but it seems as though the firm decided at the last moment …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2022| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Notebooks| OLED TVs| QD OLEDs| Samsung| Samsung Display| SmartGlasses| Smartphones| sony| tablets| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

New Diffuser Can Selectively Control Colours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists in two German institutes have developed a new optical diffuser that uses silicon nanoparticles that create a metasurface that can redirect specific wavelengths of light. The groups see applications in …

Tags:Germany| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

ALPD Efficiency

Appotronics Announces Litigation Against Delta Electronics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Appotronics, the key developer of laser phosphor light source technology, has filed an action against Delta Electronics in the Guangzhou IP Court. The action is the latest in a series of …

Tags:China| Delta| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Litigation| Patents

Links Week Starting 3rd 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. I spotted the chart below on the …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Automotive| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Metasurfaces| Oculus VR| OLEDs| Operating Systems| Optics| Remote Controls| Roku| Samsung| STBs

Samsung and LG Display can’t agree on TV OLED panel price

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that although Samsung is expected to buy OLED panels from LG Display, pricing has been a challenge. Samsung is said to want to position OLED as not as …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Pricing| Samsung

Colorado Wildfires

by Bob Raikes

Over the holiday, there were devastating fires in Colorado in the US. Very sadly, the high (>100 mph (160 km/h)) winds caused wildfires to devastate residential areas. One of the areas affected was the …

Tags:USA

Economist Picks 22 Technologies to Watch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist identified 22 ‘technologies to watch in 2022’. Only a couple (which we have listed first) involved displays, directly. VR workouts The Metaverse Solar geoengineering Heat pumps Hydrogen-powered planes Direct …

Tags:Automotive| Aviation| R&D (Research & Development)

Google Has a ‘New’ AR Project

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times ran a general article on the metaverse and AR/VR. In the article, Google is reported to be working on a new AR device after acquiring the firm …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| Intel

Looking Back on My Display Daily Year

by Bob Raikes

Like many others, at this time of year, I thought I’d look back and a bit forward to see if I could see any patterns in what I have written over the last year …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Dual Panel LCDs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LTPO TFT| Market Data| Microdisplays| MicroLED| MiniLED| OLEDs| Optics| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Tesla Disables Game Mode in Moving Vehicles

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tesla has agreed to change its Passenger Play feature that previously allowed games to be played on a touchscreen when the car was in motion. The move was made after the …

Tags:Automotive| Game Playing

 AV Link will Present New 4K/8K Products at ISE 2022

by Bob Raikes

AV LINK, a pioneering designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge 4K and 8K video processing, will exhibit in booth 5K105, from February 1 to 4 2022, in Barcelona, Spain, at Integrated Systems Europe showing MaitreView™ …

Tags:ISE 2022| Pro AV