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SID Has Some Free Webinars

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Two of the US SID Chapters are holding free to view webinars this week. The Upper Mid-West Chapter has one on the topic of Nodis TruTint Nanoparticle-based Display and Smart Glass …

Tags:E Ink| Events

Vizio Suffers on Sets, but Developing Services

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio reported revenues well down from Q4 2020 in the last quarter of 2021, from $734.3 million to $628.8 million overall with GP falling from $101.9 million to $77.1 million. For …

Tags:Financial Data| Smart TV| Vizio

Over 10 new OLED smartphones announced at MWC 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED Info reported that ten new OLED display-based smartphones were announced at MWC 2022. Oppo Find X5 / X5 Lite / X5 Pro TCL 30/ 30+ Xiaomi Poco M4 Pro / …

Tags:MWC 2022| OLEDs| Smartphones

Trains from China to the EU Disrupted

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The aggressive war by Russia on Ukraine is having an impact on the train routes that have been established for moving goods from China through to Russia. The South China Morning …

Tags:China| Europe| Supply Chain

Sony QD OLED Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say What HiFi had a chance to look a the new Sony QD-OLED-based TVs and, like everyone else that has had a chance to try it, liked the image quality. The set …

Tags:QD OLEDs| sony

HEMIX Home Electronics Market Index Q1-4/2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GFU in Germany said that the Home Electronics Market Index (HEMIX) grew last year as the value of the market in Germany grew by 3% to more than €49 billion …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Consoles| Germany| Market Data| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)

PetaRay launches metaverse AR technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that PetaRay is a new optics engine developer that claims to have AR light field technology designed to resolve vergence/accomodation conflict (VAC) issues. PetaRay said its optical engine for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Light Field Displays| Micro Projectors| Taiwan

‘World’s smallest 3-chip DLP with 20,000lm’ Announced

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Panasonic has a new 3-chip DLP projector that is claimed to be the smallest and lightest unit of this class with 20,000 Ansi lumens of output. The PT-RQ25K is said to …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Panasonic

Promethean Stays Top of the Global IFPD Sales League

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting Futuresource Consulting as a source, AV Interactive has reported that, excluding China, Promethean’s ActivPanel Interactive FPD (IFPD) has been number one globally since 2018 and is number one individually in …

Tags:Education| Interactive Displays

HC Semitek Uses Aixtron Machines for microLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Aixtron reported that a Chinese company, HC Semitek, has ordered AIX 2800G4-TM (IC2) and AIX G5+ C MOCVD systems to make microLEDs on 8″ x 6″ (203 x 152mm) substrates. The …

Tags:MicroLED| Production Equipment| Vapour Deposition