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High-end TVs Shoot it Out in Scarsdale

by Ken Werner

Last Sunday (September 23rd), Value Electronics (VE) held the TV shoot-out it began in 2007. Normally, the shoot-out is attached to a technology show in New York, but it was held this year at …

OLED is Hopping

by Ken Werner

I’m not a tribal guy. When folks in the neighborhood bar scream for the New York Giants, I quietly order another glass of Cabernet. And when LG touts the superiority of OLED-TV, I can’t …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 35

Reducing OLED Panel Cost

by Ken Werner

In my last couple of Display Dailies, I’ve written more or less obsessively — okay, more — about the costs and prices of premium TV panels. Two weeks ago, I suggested that LG had …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Is the Samsung Q9 Overpriced? — Part 2

by Ken Werner

Two weeks ago I suggested that, although Samsung’s top-of-the-line Q9 quantum-dot TV set is likely the best-looking television set on the planet, it may well be substantially overpriced relative to the new Vizio P9 …

Tags:LCD TVs| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 31

Dog Day Reveries

by Ken Werner

The hot, humid “dog days” of August are upon us here in New England. I have not been to a major display conference in a while, and there is no breaking news story that …

Why Am I Writing about Sound in Display Daily?

by Ken Werner

Why Am I Writing about Sound in Display Daily? – The quick answer is: Sound keeps coming up in a display context. Of course, sound has accompanied moving images in developmental systems since the …

Tags:3D Object-based Audio| audio| Vol 25 - Issue 28

MicroLED Displays: Even More than They Seem

by Ken Werner

It has taken me a while to appreciate that microLEDs have the potential to be much more than a brighter, less expensive, and more energy-efficient display technology. But I need to provide some background …

Tags:MicroLED| Vol 25 - Issue 26

Bringing Local Dimming to Small Displays

by Ken Werner

As you read this, I am driving from my home in Connecticut to Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. The distance is nearly 600 miles (960 km). The last time I made that drive …

Tags:LCD Backlights| MiniLED| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 24

The Shrek of Quantum Dots

by Ken Werner

If you buy a quantum-dot (QD) or QLED-enchanced LCD-TV, it will have quantum dots made by or licensed by Nanosys. There are other quantum dot companies playing around the edges, and some claim they …

ePaper Roundup: E Ink and ClearInk

by Ken Werner

Last year at Display Week, there were several start-ups showing reflective displays of one sort or another. This year, the interlopers were gone, and we were free to concentrate on was now-maturing E Ink …

MicroLEDs Raise their Epitaxial Heads at Display Week

by Ken Werner

microLED displays — displays consisting of micron-scale inorganic LED chips that are not individually packaged — have been much discussed but little seen. At Display Week, though, several microLED technology demonstrations could be seen …

Display Glass and Plastic Roundup

by Ken Werner

As soon as you walked into the exhibition area at Display Week 2018 you were confronted with an impressive flexible display substrate, the one used in LG Display‘s flexible 77 display (Fig. 1). In …