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Vizio Suffers on Sets, but Developing Services

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio reported revenues well down from Q4 2020 in the last quarter of 2021, from $734.3 million to $628.8 million overall with GP falling from $101.9 million to $77.1 million. For …

Tags:Financial Data| Smart TV| Vizio

Car Companies Are Hiding their Displays

by Bob Raikes

We display specialists like to see our displays, but in the design world and I have often written about the issue of the ‘Black hole on the wall’, or how your big TV looks …

Tags:Automotive| LCD Panels| MiniLED| Privacy

CES 2022:Back to Reality

by Bob Raikes

The HPA Tech Retreat took place last week and Display Daily’s own Pete Putman gave a talk on things from CES 2022 and called ‘CES 2022:Back to Reality’. We were ‘drinking from the firehose’ …

Tags:CES 2022| LCOS| OLEDs| Pricing| QD OLEDs| SMPTE| TVs (TV Sets)| UST Projectors

Over 10 new OLED smartphones announced at MWC 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED Info reported that ten new OLED display-based smartphones were announced at MWC 2022. Oppo Find X5 / X5 Lite / X5 Pro TCL 30/ 30+ Xiaomi Poco M4 Pro / …

Tags:MWC 2022| OLEDs| Smartphones

Smartkem & Nanosys Expand on Joint Development

by Bob Raikes

Some weeks ago, QD specialist and microLED developer Nanosys and released the news that it was collaborating with organic TFT developer Smartkem on the development of backplanes for different display technologies. We followed up …

Tags:Microdisplays| MicroLED| Nanosys| OLEDs| Organic TFTs| QD OLEDs

Trains from China to the EU Disrupted

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The aggressive war by Russia on Ukraine is having an impact on the train routes that have been established for moving goods from China through to Russia. The South China Morning …

Tags:China| Europe| Supply Chain

Sony QD OLED Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say What HiFi had a chance to look a the new Sony QD-OLED-based TVs and, like everyone else that has had a chance to try it, liked the image quality. The set …

Tags:QD OLEDs| sony

HEMIX Home Electronics Market Index Q1-4/2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GFU in Germany said that the Home Electronics Market Index (HEMIX) grew last year as the value of the market in Germany grew by 3% to more than €49 billion …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Consoles| Germany| Market Data| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)

PetaRay launches metaverse AR technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that PetaRay is a new optics engine developer that claims to have AR light field technology designed to resolve vergence/accomodation conflict (VAC) issues. PetaRay said its optical engine for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Light Field Displays| Micro Projectors| Taiwan

‘World’s smallest 3-chip DLP with 20,000lm’ Announced

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Panasonic has a new 3-chip DLP projector that is claimed to be the smallest and lightest unit of this class with 20,000 Ansi lumens of output. The PT-RQ25K is said to …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Panasonic