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LG Earnings Call Summary

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display held its earnings call this week. The firm announce operating profit of $30 million and net profit of $42.6 million on sales of $5.08 billion, down from last quarter …

Tags:Financial Data| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data

PS5 Will Get Variable Refresh Rate in Update This Week

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony said in a blog post that the PlayStation 5 would gain variable refresh rate support via some firmware patches that will roll out this week and can be used with …

Tags:PlayStation| sony| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

NPD: U.S. TV Buyers More Motivated by Screen Size and Picture Quality Than Price

by Bob Raikes

What They Say NPD released data on the US TV market and said that the average size of installed TVs in U.S. households has increased three inches (7.6cm) to 47.5″ (120.7cm) based on the …

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Omdia is Negative on 8K Growth

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DTV Europe reported that at NAB in a session on UltraHD, Omdia had forecast that growth in 8K adoption would slow down. It is forecasting 2.7 million homes in the installed …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Apple has officially launched its Self Service Repair program

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple put out a press release saying that its Self Service Repair system is now available in the US and will expand into Europe and then beyond later this year. There’s …

Tags:Apple| Repair| Right to Repair| Smartphones| USA

Sony Unveils duo of ‘ground-breakingly affordable’ 4K laser projectors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has a couple of new ‘serious’ home projectors based on laser light sources. The VPL-XW7000ES (£15,000) and VPL-XW5000ES (£/$6,000) are both said to have light source lives of 20K hours …

Tags:Home Cinema| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LCOS| sony

Samsung Hits Another Record in Q1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung reported its Q1 result and saw record revenues for the third consecutive quarter at $61.4 billion and operating profit of $11.1 billion. Samsung Display Corp (SDC) had record results for …

Tags:Financial Data| Samsung

Chinese Whispers:BOE to Supply iPhone OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Cinno Research in China reported that BOE has done a deal to supply OLEDs for the iPhone 14 and supply could reach 59 million units (around 25% or so of the …

PPDS Shows Philips High-brightness LEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At ISE, Philips (PPDS) will show new additions to the 7000 L-Line series of LED displays that was launched in 2020. Peak brightness is 3,500 cd/m² (up from older models) and …

Tags:ISE 2022| LED| Retail| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

LG gram: Portable 16-inch Display with WQXGA and USB-C

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG released its latest Gram +view notebook add-on USB monitor which weighs 670g and has a 2560 x 1600 (16:10) IPS LCD display with 1,200:1 contrast, 350 cd/m², 99% of DCI-P3 …

Tags:IPS| LG Electronics (LGE)| Notebooks| USB Monitors

A Chance to Try Headsets at IT2EC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We’re planning a fuller report for (at least one) Display Daily in the next few days, but to get the news out a bit quicker for subscribers, here is some early …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IT2EC 2022| JVC| Simulation| Virtual Reality

LG’s New Family of ‘OLED Pro’ Monitors Designed To Meet Demanding Video Production Needs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG USA put out a release to highlight the availability of its ‘New’ family of OLED Pro monitors and the first demonstration of the 26.5″, 31.5″ and 65″ models. What We …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| NAB 2022| OLED Monitors