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QD-OLED Reviews Appearing for Alienware Monitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Dell/Alienware 34″ QD-OLED AW3423DW monitor has been getting out and been tested. We spotted a couple of recent reviews. Toms Hardware liked the monitor although it found it had to …

Tags:Dell| QD OLEDs| Testing

Wavy OLED Video Wall Greets Visitors at AVI-SPL’s New Dallas Digs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net for pointing us to a US company lobby that uses nine curved and tiled 55″ portrait-oriented OLEDs from LG. The team from AVI-SPL (which is based in the …

Tags:Curved Displays| Digital Signage| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLEDs| USA

Samsung and LG Display’s OLED negotiations focused on 150 nit panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Korean news site, The Elec, said that the on-going discussions between Samsung’s TV business and LG Display over the possible supply of OLED panels are focused mainly around the lowest cost …

Tags:Korea| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Samsung| Samsung Display| sony

real depth enhancer

Three Key Features of Neo QLED 8K — Graphically Explained

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung released some high level information about the improvements to image quality in its 2022 Neo QLED 8K TVs. It highlights: 14 bit processing for the miniLED backlight, up from 12 …

Tags:Samsung| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

Economist Looks at XR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Economist published an article on XR and the Metaverse. The author tried Snap’s latest ‘Specs’ and he said: “The downside of their slender styling is a battery life of 30 …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data| Virtual Reality

E Ink Launches E Ink Kaleido 3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink announced the latest version of its Kaleido colour electrophoretic display technology. It is claimed to have ‘richer colours’ (4096) based on 16 greyscale levels and using black and white …

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Watching the Games in VR – The Sequel

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Developer of 360° video technology company, TiledMedia, published an interesting blog post on changes in the testing of VR in sport between the Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympics. The blog …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Olympics| Sports and Stadiums| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Virtual Reality

Belated News on SID Awards

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies, we missed the announcement by SID of the recipients of its Annual Awards a couple of weeks ago. Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize (outstanding technical achievement) – Wei Chen and John …

Tags:Awards| SID Society

Taiwanese Panel Makers down for Q1 and March

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Innolux and AUO released their monthly data for March. Innolux was up 9.0% in revenue terms on February, but 22.8% down on last year to $822 million. Volumes were up to …

Tags:Financial Data| LCD Fabs| Taiwan

LG OLED Monitor

LG Display considering both W-OLED and RGB-OLED as monitor tech

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported comments from an LG Display executive, Lee Hyun-hoo, at an event in Busan, Korea, run by UBI Research. He said that the firm is considering whether to make …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Monitors| OLEDs| WOLED (White OLED)

Research: 76% US homes have smart TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I spotted a report in Advanced TV about research from Hub Entertainment Research on the use of Smart TVs in the US based on a survey of 5,204 selected consumers. You …

Tags:5G| Market Data| Smart TV| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD & 4K

BT scores 8K first

by Bob Raikes

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