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Someone Leaked Tianma’s Tiptoeing Into VR

by Omid Rahmat

Last year, the Chinese microelectronics firm had shown its first VR display at the World Display Industry Conference in Chengdu. Now, it’s got Reddit wondering what is going on. It could all turn out …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Tianma| Virtual Reality

LCD Panel Orders From TV Makers Increasing in Q2’23 by 8%

by Omid Rahmat

Demand from South Korean and Chinese TV makers is set to turnaround in the second quarter of this year despite weak demand in the first quarter, according to research by Omdia. In Q2’23, orders …

Tags:LCD Panels| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung| TVs

New Research on Metasurface Technology Could Lead to Cheaper, Better, More Efficient Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Metasurfaces are 100 times thinner than liquid crystal cells, offer a ten-fold increase in resolution, and consume half the power. Metasurface technology is a type of engineered material that can control the propagation of …

Tags:LCD| LED| Metasurfaces| research

Do You Need Netflix to Endorse Your Displays?

by Omid Rahmat

A recent product announcement went out with a big splash on “Netflix officially sponsored” and it’s hard to understand what that means.

Tags:Netflix| Projectors| TVs (TV Sets)

Global TV Shipments Tilt Favorably Towards China’s Leading Brands

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung may be the number one TV brand for seventeen years running, but it’s China’s HiSense and TCL who are the real winners. It seems like HiSense was a little irked about Samsung’s PR …

Tags:Hisense| Market Data| TVs (TV Sets)

SmartKem’s World First: A Monolithic MicroLED Using Thin-Film Transistors

by Omid Rahmat

SmartKem claims to have created the world’s first monolithic micro-LED display using organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The company believes that its method of processing a thin-film transistor backplane on top of Gallium Nitride LEDs …

Tags:MicroLED| SmartKem

S23 Ultra Closes in on Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max and 14 Pro on Display Benchmarks

by Omid Rahmat

The Dxomark for Samsung’s latest smartphone, the S23 Ultra, shows marked improvements over the S22 Ultra making it the best Android phone on the market, and the best for video performance, overall. It may …

Tags:Android| DXOMARK| Samsung

SAMSUNG 2023 MICROLED TV. PHOTO: SAMSUNG

Samsung TVs Are Number One

by Omid Rahmat

According to market research firm Omdia, in 2022, Samsung ranked first in the TV market for the 17th consecutive year, selling 9.65 million units of QLED and Neo QLED TVs and dominating the ultra-large …

Tags:LG| QLED| Samsung| sony| XDR

Sony Bravia 2023 Lineup Leaked Online

by Omid Rahmat

The company is supposed to be delivering an announcement shortly on the Bravia models for 2023 but a YouTube video, subsequently taken down, provided an early leak of information. At CES 2023, Sony was …

Tags:sony| TVs (TV Sets)

Snap AR Brings Real-Time Ray Tracing to Phones

by Omid Rahmat

Four years ago, Snap acquired Adshir’s real-time software-based ray-tracing technology and has now deployed it for use on any smartphone. It may not get the big press that Meta gets with every VR pronouncement, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Snap

Apple Helping Samsung and LG Best BOE and Move to 8th Gen Lines

by Omid Rahmat

News out of Korea has Apple awarding its newest iPad Pro OLED business to the Korean giants in both 10.9 in and 12.9 in configurations. The next generation of iPad Pros are unlikely to …

Tags:Apple| iPad| LG| OLED| Samsung

OLED Revenues Fall

by Omid Rahmat

The latest release of the OLED Shipment Report shows OLED panel revenues decreased 3% YoY in Q4’22 to $12.6B as a result of a 7% YoY shipment decline. TVs decreased 4% Y/Y in units …

Tags:DSCC| Forecasts| OLED