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signageOS Likes Samsung’s Tizen 6.5

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net for pointing out a report by signageOS on the ‘Smart’ Samsung Tizen OS V6.5 that said that the OS successfully passed 53 of the 58 tests that …

Tags:Digital Signage Software| Samsung| Smart Digital Signage| Smart TV| SOCs

Apple Expands Self-Repair Programme to Europe

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has extended its ‘self-repair’ programme for iPhones and Macs to the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, and Poland. New countries were added to the dropdown on Apple’s special …

Tags:Apple| Europe| Right to Repair| warranty

LGD Aggressively Pursuing Automotive OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 2022  Global Materials/Parts/Equipment Tech Fair, hosted by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology and the Electronic Times took place a few days ago. At it, UDC’s Mike Hack confirmed the …

Tags:Automotive| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Materials| OLEDs| UDC

ViewSonic VX2722 4K OLED with HDMI 2.1 and USB-C

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ViewSonic has launched a new VX2722 UltraHD OLED monitor in China and certified to DisplayHDR 400 True Black. The monitor is said to be aimed at creatives and have ‘high colour …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| OLED Monitors| ViewSonic

Giant Samsung/Peerless Wall Installed in Morocco

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Peerless-AV have just completed a huge (87.84m x 2.7m high) circular LED video wall in the auditorium of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. The panels used were from Samsung and the …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Peerless AV| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Choosing the Right Microdisplay for Near-to-Eye Applications

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Insight Media has published a White Paper called “Choosing the Right Microdisplay for Near-to-Eye Applications”. It goes through the pros and cons of LCD, LCOS, OLED and microLED devices. The white …

Tags:LCD displays| LCOS| Microdisplays| MicroLED| OLEDs

Mid-week Links – Week Ending 9th 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 of this week. UDC Announces Passing of  Sherwin I. Seligsohn Intel …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Desktop Monitors| E Ink| Events| Intel| ISE 2022| LG Electronics (LGE)| Projectors| Semiconductor Market| Smart TV| Smartphones| UltraHD (4KTV)| Virtual Sets

Niantic Using Lumis Waveguide – Guttag Investigates

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Occasional DD contributor and HMD guru, Karl Guttag, has published a blog post in which he speculates (based on a forensic analysis of published videos in comparison to his own photos) …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Waveguide Display

Latest Apple Headset Rumours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that he now believes that the widely rumoured Apple headset will not start volume shipping until the second half of 2023 and that as a result, …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Virey Updates on miniLED in Backlights and Direct View

by Bob Raikes

Techblick held its Quantum Dots and Mini/Micro-LED Displays virtual event last week and had an impressive list of speakers and topics. I plan to write about several of the talks, but I thought I …

Tags:Market Data| MiniLED| OLEDs| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| TV Set Market