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SoftBank & Nvidia Give up on Arm Transaction

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As had been becoming increasingly likely, Nvidia and SoftBank have given up on their plan for Nvidia to acquire the Arm Ltd subsidiary of SoftBank, citing ‘significant regulatory challenges preventing the …

Tags:Arm| Mergers & Acquisitions| Nvidia

New Website for Sony PlayStation VR2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has a new website dedicated to the planned PlayStation VR2 headset and analysts suggest that this will mean that the headset will arrive this year, if the pattern of the …

Tags:PlayStation| Virtual Reality

Quest’s Holiday Sales Prompt New PC VR Milestone

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Quest 2 headset from Meta did well over the holiday with the number of connected headsets on the Steam hardware survey going past 3 million in January and with Quest …

Tags:| Financial Data| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Dolby acquires Millicast for Low Latency Streaming

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dolby said that it had bought Millicast, a specialist in real time low latency. The firm says it can support up to 1 million global viewers with ‘sub-second’ latency with broadcast …

Tags:Asus| Dell| Dolby| Dolby Atmos| Dolby Vision| Financial Data| Mergers & Acquisitions| Samsung

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A Bit More Clarity on the LG Display EX OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We had a number of queries about the latest LG Display EX WOLED panels so we contacted the firm to get clarification. Happily, they did clarify. LG Display clarified that the …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| OLEDs

More TV panels to be made at Gen 10 lines this year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting data from Omdia, The Elec said that a lot of G8 display production (LCD & OLED) lines are being converted from TV panel production to IT and that as a …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| OLEDs

U.S. pay TV penetration to fall below 50% in 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DigitalTVResearch forecast that traditional pay TV penetration in the US will slip below 50% of TV households in 2026 – down from 91% in 2010 and down from 60% in 2021. …

Tags:Pay TV| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

Threat of a Strike at Samsung

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samsung may have a strike brewing after a break down between the firm and the four trade unions that it is negotiating with. One of the …

Tags:Employment and Redundancies| Samsung

LG Increases 48″ TV Pricing and Adds Evo Technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG in the UK has revealed pricing for the 48″ LG Evo C2 set (this year’s model) which will cost more than last year’s C1 (at $1,575 compared to $1,465 – …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Pricing| UK (United Kingdom)

Links Week Starting 7th February 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. G-Master Red Eagles GB3467WQSU and G4380UHSU-B1 have …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| DVD| Europe| | Financial Data| Game Playing| MiniLED| OLEDs| Philips| R&D (Research & Development)| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Video Processors| Virtual Reality