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Xperi and Vestel on a Roll at IFA

by Bob Raikes

Just before IFA, Xperi announced its new Tivo OS for TV and revealed that Vestel was its first partner. Both companies were at the show and I was able to talk to both of …

Tags:Content Discovery| Operating Systems| Rovi| Smart TV| Tivo

Samsung’s IFA Innovation Room Impresses

by Bob Raikes

Samsung, as it often does at CES and other big trade shows, had what it calls an Innovation room to show journalists the latest technologies away from the crowds on the show floor. This …

Tags:Cloud Gaming| Colour Quality| Direct Backlights| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IFA 2022| Projectors| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Links Week Ending 9th September 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 end of this week. There are a lot as I was so …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Aviation| Cameras| Cinema| Cloud Gaming| Contact Lens Display| Desktop Monitors| | Financial Data| Haptics| Investment| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| MMD (AOC Philips)| Optics| PlayStation| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| sony| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 16th September 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 end of this week. There are a lot again as I was …

Tags:BenQ| Big Data/AI| CAD-CAM-CAE| DisplayPort| HD+ (Germany)| Huawei| IFA 2022| Interfaces| Kopin| OLED TVs| Panasonic| Smart TV| Smartphones| Touch Displays| TVs (TV Sets)| UST Projectors| Virtual Reality

Advanced TV Market Growth Slowed in Q2’22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published its latest Advanced TV report that, unsurprisingly, found that the combination of macroeconomic and geopolitical events and higher prices for OLED TVs led to a dramatic slowdown in growth …

Tags:China| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| MiniLED| OLED TVs| Samsung| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

Tesla presents QLED TVs at IFA

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Intriguingly, a company at IFA called Tesla was showing, among other things, Tesla TVs. However, there is nothing connected to Elon Musk here – rather the brand is licensed for a …

Tags:IFA 2022| Quantum Dots| TVs (TV Sets)

Apple expected to use hybrid OLED for iPad

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple wants the OLEDs that are expected to be used on its OLED iPads in around 2024 to use a very thin (0.2mm) glass substrate rather than a fully flexible substrate …

Tags:Apple| Encapsulation| Flexible Displays| OLEDs

Quo Vadis, IFA?

by Bob Raikes

I first came to IFA, the International Funkaustellung (literally international Radio Show) 25 years ago. Most shows follow an arc of lifetime (like football managers) – building up, succeeding, then fading and dying or …

Tags:IFA 2022

UBI Reports & Forecasts Medium/Large OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UBI Rersearch of Korea reported that its estimate for the value of the medium and large OLED display market was $1.67 billion with shipments rising by 11.2% on an annual basis. …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| OLED Fabs

Samsung Display transfers LCD patents to CSOT

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Display (SDC) has sold and transferred its LCD patents to TCL’s CSOT panel making subsidiary which bought the Samsung Suzhou fab in China in 2020. Samsung …

Tags:BOE| CSOT| Patents| Samsung| TCL