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Update on Arcadia Cinema

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Last week I wrote about a PLF cinema facility in Italy that was upgrading to 100,000 lumens with an extra laser light source to show the new Avatar movie (Arcadia Cinema: …

Tags:3D Cinema| 6p Laser| Italy| Laser Projectors

Foxconn Eases China Factory Restrictions

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Foxconn has ended most of the restrictions on its factory in Zhengzhou, China including the “point-to-point” system, in which employees had to restrict daily movements to between their dormitories and the campus.  …

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

Q3 2022 smartphone

Global Smartphone Shipment Market Share – Q3 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published an infographic on the smartphone market in Q3 2022. Some highlights were: The global smartphone market declined by 12% YoY but grew 3% QoQ to 301.9 million units …

Tags:Apple| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market

 iPad OS16.12 Improves External Display Support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was very pleased to see that Apple has released iPad OS 16.2 for download. The OS upgrade is significant as it contains the deferred improvement in support for external monitors …

Tags:Apple| iPad

Dell’s Concept Luna Investigates Modular Notebooks

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dell has shown the latest version of a modular concept laptop that it is calling Concept Luna. The style is ‘comparable in size to a Latitude with some Dell XPS 13 …

Tags:Dell| Notebooks| Repair| warranty

Coincidence Suggests a Topic – Anti-glare

by Bob Raikes

A couple of separate press releases related to the same topic popped into my inbox this week and gave me a good theme for my Display Daily today. That topic is screen glare or …

Tags:Anti Glare| Glass| OLED Monitors

Links – Mid-week week starting 12th December 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 middle part of this week. Vestaboard thinks its flip message board is …

Tags:Apple| E Ink| Game Playing| MiniLED| Notebooks| OLEDs| Smart Home & Home Networks| STBs

Samsung to Show 77″ QD-OLED TV at CES

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The ET News said in a Korean language article that Samsung Electronics would show a new 77″ QD-OLED TV at CES 2023 next month. The article suggests that a relatively visible …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| sony

LG Electronics, Corning Collaborate on Automotive Curved Glass

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Economic Daily (KED) said that LG Electronics and Corning are to collaborate to supply curved displays to European automotive makers. LG will use Corning’s ColdForm technology which is said …

Tags:Automotive| Corning| Glass| LG Electronics (LGE)

Links – Week Ending 16th December 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 later part of this week. ViewSonic LS610HDH: LED projector with 4000 lumens …

Tags:Acer| All-in-ones (AIOs)| CES 2023| Codecs| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Germany| Italy| LED Projectors| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED & QD-OLED Monitors| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Smart TV| | Streaming Dongles| ViewSonic| Virtual Sets| Vizio

Displace: Vacuum display sticks to ‘any wall’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yesterday we published a press release for Displace – a TV that ‘sticks to the wall’ using Displace TV’s ‘proprietary active-loop vacuum technology’ (Displace to Debut the World’s First Truly Wireless TV …

Tags:OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)

Arcadia Cinema: 100.000 Lumens in PLF ENERGIA Screen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Cinemeccanica joined the list of companies preparing for Avatar 2 by upgrading an Italian PLF cinema, the PLF Energia Screen, to 100,000 lumens on a 30 metre wide screen. It has …

Tags:6p Laser| Italy| Projectors