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Comcast’s Global UI for TVs and Streaming Boxes

by Omid Rahmat

Later this year, Comcast will launch “one global user interface for Sky Glass, Xfinity, X1, Flex, Xumo and our US and international partners,” Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts said today on the company’s …

How Gestures and Touch Will Redefine Display Value Propositions

by Omid Rahmat

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is going to be publishing a technical paper to address in-vehicle usability and distraction evaluations to better address the increasing use of touchscreen controls. That got me looking …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Touch Displays

Pushing OLED Tablets

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung, Lenovo, Asus, Microsoft, and Huawei have delivered, and been open about OLED tablets for a while and this seems a good time to remind everyone about that because Apple – yes, it again …

Tags:Apple| Asus| Huawei| Microsoft| OLED| Samsung| tablets

LG Display Announces Record Operating Loss

by Omid Rahmat

LG Display reported unaudited earnings for the three-month period ending December 31, 2022. Revenues in the fourth quarter of 2022 increased by 8% to KRW 7,302 billion ($5.914 billion) from KRW 6,771 in the …

Tags:Financial Data| LG Displays (LGD)

AR/VR/XR: Pick One, Any One

by Omid Rahmat

Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company. You have to let that sink in for a while because if that doesn’t cause you anxiety, nothing will. It also happens to have a billion loyal customers. …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| meta| oculus| VR| XR

Free Ad-Supported TV (FAST): A Value Proposition

by Omid Rahmat

It all says to me that we are seeing traditional TV channels move from being destinations on a dial to being app icons on a platform. The interesting thing about the growth of FAST …

Tags:FAST| omdia| TV sales

MICROLED ON A 300MM WAFER. PHOTO: ALEDIA

The Monolithic RGB MicroLED

by Omid Rahmat

A technology that can dramatically increase the utilization and productivity of micro light emitting diode (LED) has been developed in Korea. It is gaining much attention on whether the popularization of micro-LED will be …

Tags:Lumens| MicroLED

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 …

LG G3. PHOTO: LG

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