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HDTV Test Likes the MSI 240Hz OLED Notebook for Gaming

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HDTVTest had a look at the new MSI Raider GR67 HX notebook which has a 240Hz QuadHD OLED which Vincent Teoh describes as having the best motion performance he has seen …

Tags:Game Playing| Notebooks| OLED Notebooks| Testing

OLED Panel Revenues Increase 12% Y/Y in Q2’22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog article with extracts from its latest OLED shipment report and said that OLED panel revenues increased 12% Y/Y on 3% Y/Y unit declines as a result of …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| Financial Data| OLEDs| Supply Chain

Samsung Ark Monitor is very Curved

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Electronics has a new 55″ 1000R curved UltraHD gaming display with 165Hz refresh and a new controller. The ‘Quantum miniLED’ backlight has 14 bits of control and Samsung said that …

Tags:Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing

Asus launches first 42″ OLED gaming monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Asus is now releasing the ROG Swift PG42UQ (42″) and PG48UQ (48″) OLED gaming monitors which were announced at CES (OLED Also Important in IT at CES). The monitors are based …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| OLED Monitors

Sky postpones German launch of Sky Glass Pay-TV operator Sky Deutschland will launch its integrated smart TV Sky Glass in Germany in 2023 rather than this year.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Broadband TV News reports that Sky Deutschland will launch its Sky Glass streaming-optimised TV in Germany in 2023. The firm had originally planned a launch this year. Sky said that it …

Tags:Germany| Sky| TVs (TV Sets)

Vizio hardware sales flat, but SmartCast platform revenue spikes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio saw its revenues rise by 2% compared to Q2 last year to $408.9 million with around ¾ of the value coming from hardware. TV and sound bar numbers were flat …

Tags:Financial Data| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Vizio

LG DualUp 28MQ780 Monitor Review: A Unique New Display Shape

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tom’s Hardware looked at the LG DualUp 28MQ780 monitor which has a 16:18 aspect ratio (and is effectively dual stacked 16:9 panels). The resolution is 2560 x 2880 so it’s the …

Tags:Aspect Ratios| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)

Global Smart TV Shipments to See Slight 1.9% Growth in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Market research group Kagan has release a forecast for SmartTVs that suggests that the segment will not take more share, with around 72%, below the level of 2020 and with a …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Smart TV

Hands-on with Meta Reality Labs’ Starburst prototype for HDR VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At Siggraph this year, Meta showed its ‘Starburst’ demonstration system that is intended to look at what you can do to achieve very good HDR in a headset, without worrying about …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Virtual Reality

Samsung and LG at K-Display 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to OLED-Info for spotting a summary video on YouTube from the recent K-Display 2022 show in Korea. What We Think There was nothing in the video that we hadn’t …

Tags:Korea| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display

So what is it going to take to deliver all-day wearable AR glasses?

by Bob Raikes

A few weeks ago, I spotted an interesting article on the long form ‘Medium’ platform from Avi Bar-Zeev. He’s been at Disney, Keyhole (acquired by Google), Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and has had his own …

Apple Expects Steady Demand for New iPhones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although there are negative signs in the smartphone market, Bloomberg reported that Apple has asked suppliers to maintain volumes of its new iPhones in line with last years launch – which …