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Compal halts Taiwan production Because of Omicron

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Compal Electronics, a supplier to Dell and Amazon among others and the 2nd largest contract maker of notebooks , is halting production at its factory in Pingzhen in …

Apple’s New VR/AR Headset Risks Being Delayed Until 2023

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reported that the planned XR headset being developed by Apple may be pushed back by ‘at least a few months’. It was expected to be unveiled at the annual Developer …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

Samsung Electronics dispatched chartered flights to Las Vegas

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reported that there was a cluster of around 70 cases of Covid among attendees from Korea at the recent CES show. Separately, the Korea Herald reported that Samsung had chartered …

Tags:CES 2022| ISE 2022

Emotn C1 LCD Projector Officially Launches on the Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was a bit surprised to see a new LCD projector from Emotn that was reported to have output of ‘over 8500 lumens’. That would not be surprising except that the …

Tags:Amazon| LED Projectors

Vizio SmartCast Now has 15M Users

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At a Needham conference, Vizio said that it now has 15 million active SmartCast users up from 12 million in March 2021. The CFO, Adam Townsend, said that more than 85% …

Tags:AVOD| Smart TV| SVOD| USA| Vizio

Links Week Starting 17th January 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. Here’s a nice VFX show reel if …

The Green Planet AR experience opening in London

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There is a new AR experience called ‘The Green Planet AR Experience’ that is due to open on February 11th in London. The event was reated by Factory 42 with BBC …

Asus Fog Clears a Little

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was confused earlier in the week as I had seen reports that an Asus notebook, the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 (2022) GX650 was using panels by BOE but I also …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| LCD displays| Notebooks

Omdia: OLED Could Take 10% of the Notebook Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED Info quoted some data from Omdia on OLED sales in IT applications. The report detailed that Omdia numbered the volume of notebook displays shipped in 2021 as 5.58 million with …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Notebooks| OLEDs

Foldable Phones Could Kickstart China’s Sluggish Smartphone Market, Analysts Say

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Caixin reported that Honor was launching its Magic V foldable smartphone in the Chinese market with hopes that the category might boost the flagging Chinese smartphone market. The smartphone has a …

Tags:China| Foldable Devices| Smartphone Market

Graphene OLED Touch Layer Demonstrated

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Queen Mary University of London (which must have re-branded from Queen Mary College) working with Paragraf (Cambridge, UK) and Tokyo, Japan, have collaborated in a research project that used a monolayer …

Tags:Graphene| ITO| ITO Replacement| OLEDs

Atlanta DTH launches compact ATSC 3.0 digital TV receiver

by Bob Raikes

What They Say RapidTVNews reported that Atlanata DTH has a new dongle that can support ATSC 3.0. The unit is based on the established DGI 1011 SD/HD USB plug-in DTV tuner, the DGI-NexGen-Solo is …

Tags:ATSC| Streaming Dongles| USA