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Panel expert downbeat on Korean investments in premium TV displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported from a seminar in Seoul last week that Yi Choong-hoon from UBI Research that although there is some demand for large OLEDs for TVs, monitors and laptops, …

Tags:Forecasts| Investment| Korea| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display

Links Week Starting 27th June 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple| ATSC| Desktop Monitors| DRM & Content Protection| DVB-T & T2| FCC| Foxconn (Honhai)| Hisense| Huawei| Poland| Samsung| Security| Smart TV| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Reality

Samsung to supply 5 million automotive AMOLED displays to BMW

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The ET News in Korea reported that Samsung Display has been chosen to supply OLEDs to BMW for a ‘high end sedan’ from 2024 with volumes reaching 4 million units over …

Tags:Automotive| Forecasts| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLEDs| Samsung Display

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Bloomberg: Apple planning A14 Apple TV

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple watcher, Mark Gurman, said that the firm is about to “embark on one of the most ambitious periods of new products in its history” between the autumn of this …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| iPhone| Notebooks| Smartphones| STBs| tablets

Sony & Samsung QD-OLED Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vincent Teoh of HDTVTest has had a look at the Sony A95K Master series TV, which, like the Samsung S95B, uses a QD OLED panel. He goes through a number of …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)

TCL CSoT Promotes Advanced OLED Technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chinese website Weixin.qq.com reporter that TCL Huaxing has said that it has developed LTPO technology that can cover a range of 1 to 144Hz refresh. It has also developed MLP (Micro …

Tags:China| CSOT| OLED Fabs| TCL

Laptop Mag Looks at M2 MacBook Pro 13

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Laptop Magazine had a good look at the new M2 MacBook Pro 13 notebook from Apple. It lamented that the LCD display on the unit has wide bezels but liked that …

Tags:Apple| Notebooks| Testing

New XR Experience in Canada “Uncontained” is Contained

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A firm called XR Immersive Tech Inc. has said that it will launch a new immersive XR experience in Canada at the Playland Amusement park in British Columbia and the PNE …

Tags:Canada| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

Virtual Set Makers Promoting More than RGB for LED Walls

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Broadcast Bridge reported on a big new virtual production facility being built in LA by Orbital Virtual Productions. There are two stages – one that is 50′ x 25′ and 15′ …

Tags:Movies & Content| Multi-Primary| USA| Virtual Sets

LG Chem started to supply ‘Blue Host’ to BOE

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ETNews from Korea reports that LG Chem has started to supply a blue host OLED material to BOE in China for the first time. The firm is said to be using …

Tags:BOE| OLED Materials| Supply Chain