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Samsung’s Profits Decline But Display Sets Profit Record

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC dug into the recent Samsung Q3 results and trends. (Samsung Electronics Down but Still Makes $7.65 billion). After looking at overall revenues and semiconductors the firm analysed the results for …

Tags:Financial Data| Forecasts| Samsung

Daktronics Offers ‘Light Mitigation’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Daktronics put out a press release that highlighted that it is able to supply ‘light mitigation’ technology that can help where light spilling from large LEDs under the name LightDirect. The …

Tags:Daktronics| DOOH| LED| Outdoor Displays

iPhone Assembly Hit by Covid Lockdown

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist said that videos have been made of workers fleeing a huge iPhone-assembly plant in Zhengzhou, in central China, after the facility was locked down to contain a covid-19 outbreak. Reuters …

Tags:China| Covid-19| Foxconn (Honhai)| iPhone| Supply Chain

Microsoft Hololens Progress Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The WSJ looked at the history of the development of Microsoft’s Hololens project. The paper said that more than 100 members of staff have left the team (which has been over …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Microsoft| Mixed Reality

Links Week Starting 7th 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. For the next couple of weeks, we …

Tags:AUO| Automotive| AVOD| Display Drivers| Keyboards| OLED TVs| Qualcomm| Video Quality| Vizio

Links Week Starting 31st October 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. For the next couple of weeks, we …

Tags:Aviation| Corning| Desktop Monitors| Distributors| Events| Financial Data| Flight Information (FIDs)| Game Playing| LED| Mergers & Acquisitions| OLED Materials| OLED TVs| Oxide TFTs| Patents| Philips| Pricing| R&D (Research & Development)| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony| TADF| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)

Volvo EX90 EV to get Tesla-style vertical touchscreen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Volvo EX90 electric SUV will include a vertical touchscreen that shows navigation, media playback and phone functions along with other commonly used actions. There is also a rectangular driving display.  There …

Tags:Automotive| Touch Displays

The TV Interface Is the Key To Pretty Much Everything

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TVRev.com published an interesting article on the development of front end interfaces for smart TVs and highlighted that Vizio is adopting the ‘Tiles’ system from SpringServe for its Smartcast interface. The …

Tags:Operating Systems| Smart TV| Vizio

 Meta Quest Pro Hands-On Impressions! | Tested.com

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Adam Savage’s Tested had a look at the new Meta Quest Pro for a YouTube review. The first point made was that on the Quest 2, all the optics, processing and …

Tags:| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

New Study Projects VR Revenue to Reach $28.8 Billion by 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARtillery Intelligence has published its forecast for VR revenues, with a view that it will more than triple from $8.3 billion in 2021 to $28.8 billion in 2026, a 28.3% compound annual growth rate. Consumer spending (hardware …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Virtual Reality

Amazon on Announced a New Hardware Partnership with TCL

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has launched a new series of TVs based on Amazon’s Fire TV OS. The 55″ and 65″ sets will be sold in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. What We Think …

Tags:Amazon| Android| Google| Operating Systems| Smart TV

Apple Is Working on a 16-Inch iPad (rumour)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to The Information, Apple is developing a 16″ iPad that could be released at the end of 2023. There were no details of the display that might be used. What …

Tags:Apple| tablets