LG Uses Samsung OLED in Laptop
by Omid Rahmat
The Elec is reporting LG is using Samsung Display’s OLEDs in its LG gram Ultraslim and LG gram Style laptops, the first OLED products of their kind for the company. LG Display doesn’t manufacture …
Large Screen OLEDs Set for Rise in Demand
by Omid Rahmat
We see (1) the mid-/large-size LCD (TV, IT) and large-size OLED (WOLED) segments remaining in the red as the global economic slowdown erodes demand and (2) the small-/mid-size OLED (P-OLED) segment’s profit margins affected …
Tags:LG| OLEDs
Update: ClearMR Standard for Motion Blur
by Omid Rahmat
The January/February 2023 edition of Information Display has paper by Frank Seto of VESA, and Dale Stolitka of Samsung, on the Clear Motion Ration (CMR) certification program, specifically pitching its value as a consumer …
Tags:ClearMR| Samsung| SID Society| VESA
Retail Attention Grabbing Driving Digital Signage’s 7.7% CAGR
by Omid Rahmat
In a world filled with a plethora of brands and sources of media, and where the average consumer is exposed to thousands of messages each day, the importance of choosing efficient and effective advertising …
Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH
TI’s Ultrasonic Lens Cleaning (ULC) is The Technology You Didn’t Know You Need
by Omid Rahmat
Removing contaminants from camera lenses is a manual or mechanical process, usually. Texas Instrument’s (TI) new ultrasonic lens cleaning (ULC) chipset, including the ULC1001 digital signal processor (DSP) and companion DRV2901 piezo transducer driver, …
Tags:TI (Texas Instruments)
3M’s Down But Investing in Display Technologies
by Omid Rahmat
In 2022, 3M saw a 3.2% drop in revenues from the previous year, and a miss on earnings targets. As a result it is reducing its workforce by 2,500 because of the loss of …
Tags:3M| Financial Data| LCD| OLED| optical film
The Deathknell of the STB
by Omid Rahmat
“Ultimately STB manufacturers are focusing on the needs of the purchasing company, which increasingly favour business rather than technology objectives, ” said Hans Jurgen Desor, CEo of iWedia. “Recently nothing from the technology side …
Tags:AndroidTV| iWedia| Smart TV| STBs
What the Super Bowl Tells Us About TV Buying
by Omid Rahmat
There’s nothing quite like the showcase of the NFL season, the Super Bowl, at least when it comes to TVs. The FIFA World Cup draws a much bigger worldwide audience and it can juice …
Tags:Apple TV| Hisense| Samsung| Super Bowl| TV pricing
Amorphyx Demonstrates New Thin Film Transistor Technology
by Omid Rahmat
In a post on LinkedIn, Amorphyx CEO and President had this to say: As Ian Hendry referenced on Display Daily before, Amorphyx is a strategic option for smartphone backplanes. The company claims the IGZO …
Tags:Amorphyx| LTPO TFT| Smartphones
Private Equity Giant, BlackRock, Ups Stake in Photronics
by Omid Rahmat
Fintel reports that BlackRock Inc. has filed a 13G/A form with the SEC disclosing ownership of 10,607,115 shares of Photronics, Inc. (PLAB). This represents 17.2% of the company. In their previous filing dated January 27, 2022 they reported …
Tags:FPD| Photronics
Differentiation Kills: Samsung TV Plus and TCL
by Omid Rahmat
Television sets made and shipped by Chinese brand TCL could become one of the first non-Samsung models to get access to the free, ad-supported streaming service Samsung TV Plus, according to a report published …
Tags:FAST| Samsung| Samsung TV Plus
Apple Taking on Samsung, Google, and Amazon in The Home
by Omid Rahmat
The central product appears to be a dockable iPad screen that feature a touchscreen and function similar Samsungs SmartThings and Googles Home along with Amazon Alexa with new Apple iOS software coded to pull …
Tags:Apple| Google| Samsung| Smart Home & Home Networks
