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Reports: Samsung and Sony to launch QD-OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Korea reported that Sony plans to be one of the first two TV suppliers to use QD-OLED panels from SDC, following Samsung Electronics. The paper reported that Samsung will show …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| sony

Doogee Rugged Smartphone Has an OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chinese smartphone maker, Doogee, has a new rugged smartphone on its way. The V20 unit is unusual in that it is claimed to use an AMOLED display. It will be certified …

Tags:Rugged Displays| Smartphones

Lucid Motors Includes a 34″ Curved Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IEEE Spectrum had an interesting article on a new high end electric car from new maker Lucid Motors of Silicon Valley. The first car from the firm has a 520 mile …

Tags:Automotive| Curved Displays

V-Nova and PresenZ launch world-first in VR movies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say V-Nova and Presenz said that the firms have worked to combine V-Nova’s point-cloud compression technology with a 6DoF volumetric movie format from Presenz. The Presenz volumetric video format uses 3D assets …

Tags:3D software| Codecs| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 19th November 2021

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 second part of this week. The Economist Looks at the Metaverse ($) …

Tags:Cinema going| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Gesture Recognition| Investment| LED| Nvidia| Pricing| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Games| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TCL| The Metaverse

Raythink AR HUD Pro named CES 2022 Innovations Award Honoree.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Shenzen Raythink Technology, founded in 2019, said that its AR HUD Pro for driving has been named as an Innovations Award Honoree. The AR HUD Pro projects information for the driver …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs

TCL CSOT Make Strides to Increase Frame Rates for 8K

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association published an article that followed up news through Gizmodochina that TCL’s CSOT operation has developed a 75″ 8K display that uses an amorphous backplane with a 1-gate/1-drain (1D1G) …

Tags:Amorphous TFT| IGZO| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

HEMIX Home Electronics Market Index Q1-3 / 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU in Germany published its overall Hemix Home Electronics Market Index for Q3 and said that it was up 6.9% on 2020. The cumulative value of the market was €33.4 …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Germany| Market Data| Notebooks| Smartphones| tablets| TVs (TV Sets)

Parks: U.S. Consumer Adoption of Smart TVs Reached 56% in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Parks Associates reported that SmartTV penetration has now reached 56% of US broadband homes. Smartspeakers and smartdisplays reached 53%. 82% of domestic broadband households subscribe to at least one OTT video …

Tags:broadband| Market Data| OTT Video| Smart TV| SVOD| USA