A bit of a re-branding!
by Bob Raikes
This is just to let you know that the ‘What Bob Saw’ service is re-branding as ‘Display Insider’. There is no other change – it’s the same content and format – just a new …
Laptop Review: MSI Creator 17 – A desktop replacement with a miniLED HDR display
by Bob Raikes
What They Say My favourite photography technology site, DPReview.com, published a review of the MSI Creator 17 notebook. The unit has a 17.3″ UltraHD miniLED display, with variants that have 100% of DCI-P3 (B11UH) …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Notebooks
China’s Q4 2021 Smartphone Shipments Fall 11% YoY; HONOR #2 for First Time
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Counterpoint Research put out a release highlighting the Chinese smartphone market and said that Honor, the Huawei spin-off, had doubled its sales, going from 7.5% in Q4 2020 to 16.7% in …
Tags:China| iPhone| Market Data| Smartphone Market| Smartphones
Simula One to Ship Late in 2022
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Simula One has revealed a new stand-alone VR headset powered by a Intel i7 chip and running SumulaOS, a Linux distribution designed for VR. The unit, which will feature dual 2448 …
Tags:Intel| Virtual Reality
Seeing is believing: Everything you need to know about 8K in live broadcasting and professional displays
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The 8K Association, in collaboration with Intel and Sharp NEC Display Solutions, is planning a ‘Fireside Chat’ on 9K broadcasting and professional displays. It is free to join, but registration is …
Tags:Events| Super Hi-Vision (8K)
MiniLED Monitors are Getting Cheaper
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Earlier this week, we listed in our ‘quick links’ a new Cooler Master 27″ GP27-FUS UltraHD monitor with DisplayHDR 1000 rating and with no pricing yet. Now we have spotted another, …
Tags:Desktop Monitors| | Pricing| Quantum Dots
BOE Hits Driver Block
by Milos Pavlovic
What They Say The Elec reports that BOE has had to reduce its shipments of OLEDs to Apple because of a shortage of driver chips which it is said to be buying from LX …
Tags:BOE| Display Drivers| Semiconductors
Roku Planning to Make its Own TVs?
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Business Insider reports that Roku is exploring the feasibility of making its own brand of smartTVs and apparently ran a focus group. Someone told the blog: “They showed different models, feature …
Tags:Roku| Smart TV| USA
Samsung Electronics labor union threatens to stage first-ever walkout
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The Korea Herald reports that labour unions at Samsung in Korea are threatening to go out on strike, which would be a first for the firm in over 50 years. The …
Tags:Korea| Samsung
SK Hynix new memory chips are 16 times faster, 80% more efficient
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The Korea Herald reported that SK Hynix has ‘next generation’ memory chips that can process data as well as storing it. The firm claims that this can increase calculation times by …
Tags:Semiconductors
Google Announces Software to Turn Old PCs and Macs Into Chromebooks
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Google has made blog post that highlights that it has a new version of the Chrome OS Flex operating system designed to transform old Macs and PCs into Chromebooks. The system …
Tags:Chrome| Chromebooks| Google| PCs
Futuresource Publishes its ‘Perspectives in CE’
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Futuresource, a research company based in the UK, has published its view on CE trends in 2022, based basically on what happened and was discussed at CES 2022. The report can …
Tags:audio| Consumer Electronics Industry
