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MSI is planning AmLED display and 4K OLED monitors for gamers

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Prad.de reported that MSI has talked about a new MEG Artymis 341 gaming monitor that is a 34″ unit with miniLED backlight, based on AUO AmLED technology. The dynamic optimisation of …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| OLEDs

Research: US streamers leaving VoD

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Kantar has reported on the US SVOD market and Advanced Television had details. Entertainment on Demand, the solution measuring streaming service subscription levels, reveals the following subscriber behaviours in the US …

Tags:Market Data| SVOD

Sky addresses Sky Glass flickering screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say broadbandtvnews.com reports that a number of Sky Glass customers (When is a TV not a TV?) have complained about issues with the new TVs about ‘distracting flicker’. There are also complaints …

Tags:Sky| TVs (TV Sets)| UK (United Kingdom)

Nintendo Cuts Back Production

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Following the news of cut backs in iPad production, the Nikkei reports that Nintendo has cut back its production plan for Switch consoles this quarter from 30 million to 24 million. …

Tags:Nintendo| Supply Chain

Researchers Develop Glass-Encapsulated Perovskites

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An international group of scientists has found a way to embed lead-halide perovskites (LHPs) in porous glass, The glass protects the materials, which are very sensitive, while stopping the leaching of …

Tags:Perovskite| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Ending 5th November 2021

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 second part of this week. ‘First-of-a-kind 3D curved Sony Crystal LED system’ …

Tags:Apple| Awards| Desktop Monitors| LED| LG Electronics (LGE)| MiniLED| NEC| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Smartphones| sony| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi

Apple in talks with Samsung Display to apply OLED to MacBook

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Apple has started to talk to LG & Samsung about the possible supply of OLEDs for MacBooks, a plan that had been originally planned for 2025, the …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Notebooks| OLEDs| Samsung Display| tablets

Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Apple is moving restricted chip supplies to the iPhone 13 rather than its iPad production. It put the rate of cut back as at 50% of the original …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Supply Chain| tablets

Lenovo Teases Second Screen for Drawing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Leaker Evan Blass (rvleaks) has shown an image that is purported to be a 17″ ThinkBook Plus that uses a 17″ main display along with a smaller display that can be …

Tags:Lenovo| Notebooks| Pen Input

Power On Says Mixed Reality Headset ‘As Early as Next Year’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In his ‘Power On’ subscription newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple’s first headset will be out next year and will support ‘mixed reality’ that is to say a VR experience …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Oculus VR

LCD TV Panel Prices Continued to Plunge in October

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Confirming what Sigmaintell said earlier in the week, DSCC reported on the fall in TV prices in October and included a forecast for the rest of this year. The forecast shows …

Tags:LCD displays| Pricing