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LG Display Updates on Q2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display held its quarterly conference call and confirmed that it had underperformed its guidance with revenues down 13% QoQ and 19% YoY from a combination of continued disruption in China …

Tags:Financial Data| large displays| Large LCD Supply| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| OLEDs

Taiwanese Panel Makers Update on Q2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AUO and Innolux announced their June and Q2 results. AUO saw sales down 22.9% on a quarterly basis and 34% annually to $2.1 billion and with an operating loss of $155 …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Innolux

Comcast Looking at Set Makers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol Entertainment said that Comcast has looked at acquiring Vizio or another TV maker and has even looked at and talked to TP Vision, the licensee for Philips TVs in Europe. …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| TPV (TP Vision)| TVs (TV Sets)| Vizio

US VC’s Fundraising is Very Strong

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Economist Paul Kedrosky’s Daily Graph service has turned up another interesting one on US financing. This time, he has found a chart showing that US VCs are continuing to raise large …

Tags:Financial Data| USA

Wider Still & Wider…

by Bob Raikes

In yesterday’s Display Daily, I mentioned that the Invidis Yearbook had alerted me to an interesting development by Microsoft. The firm has included a new arrangement for Teams displays called Front Row that is …

Tags:Aspect Ratios| Interactive Displays| LCD Panels| Microsoft

Links Week Ending 29th July 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. Meta bumps prices of Quest 2 headsets ahead …

Tags:Apple| Asus| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| DOOH| | Game Playing| JCDecaux| Laser| LED| MMD (AOC Philips)| Patents| Pricing| Sky| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

China and TV manufacturers push MicroLED over LCD

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported some information from Omdia on the LED market in Q1 2022. The report forecast that the average pitch ( which is calculated by the weighted arithmetic mean assuming the …

Tags:Digital Signage| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Video Walls

Alaska Airlines to launch E Ink based baggage tags

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Alaska Airlines is the next carrier to try using E Ink-based electronic baggage tags that it plans to make available initially to 2,500 regular flyers from San Jose, USA. Other frequent …

Tags:Aviation| E Ink| USA

Palomaki Rips Up a QD-OLED TV

by Bob Raikes

Our own Peter Palomaki tore down a Samsung S95B QD-OLED TV. Teasingly, in this part one video, he showed that he would be using a UV flashlight – a test we had hoped to …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| Teardowns| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Meta May Acquire AdHawk Micro

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Meta Platforms Inc is considering buying AdHawk Microsystems Inc of Canada. which has an eye tracking system that does not use cameras and is claimed to be more …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Gaze Recognition| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Viture Partnered with Harman and Layer For Viewing Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A couple of weeks ago, Viture announced that it had partnered with Harman and Layer to make some new glasses that are available with an optional neckband that includes directional speakers. …

Tags:Android| Consoles| Game Playing| SmartGlasses

New Pico Headsets Leaked via FCC Filings

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Pico (owned by ByteDance, which owns TikTok) is expected to launch a new VR headset with two versions after references in an FCC filing. They are both standalone devices running Android …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality