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LG Chem Develops Foldable Display Material Using New Material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Chem announced that it has developed a new coating technology that can be applied to PET to create a material that it calls ‘Real Folding Window’ that is said to …

Tags:Film materials| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices

ViewSonic Introduces Monitors with CVD Correction

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ViewSonic has two new monitors that are VP2768a-4K (27″ UltraHD) and VP3268a-4K (32″ UltraHD) cover 100% sRGB, guarantee Pantone-validated color fidelity and have calibration with a Delta E <2 value and …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Testing| ViewSonic

Taiwanese Panel Makers up YoY in Revenue, Down Monthly

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Taiwanese panel makers reported their financial results for August. AUO was up in area from July (by 3.6%) while revenues were down 1.91% because of reducing prices. Innolux was up …

Tags:Financial Data| LCD Fabs

Links Week Ending 17th September 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. Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV on Five …

Tags:Acer| ATSC| Comcast| Financial Data| Interactive Displays| Market Data| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Samsung| Smart TV| USA| VideoConferencing

Links Week Ending 10th September 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. Samsung reveals plans to develop 576MP smartphone …

Tags:Acer| Android| Cameras| Desktop Monitors| MiniLED| Notebooks| OLED Materials| OLEDs| STBs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

Projection screen winner features in PLASA awards

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I was impressed by the CarbonBlack projection screen shown by Lang at this year’s ISE event in London and I was not the only one. The technology has won an award …

Tags:Awards| Projection Screens| Projectors

Midwich Group beats 2019 sales of displays and projectors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A bellwether of the ProAV market in the UK (mainly but also with business in Europe and the US) is the Midwich group, the key distributor in that segment. The firm …

Tags:Distribution| Education| Financial Data| Pro AV

What Is Responsible For The Surging Demand For CIS?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in Semiconductor Engineering points out that the driver for big investments by TSMC in fabs in Japan and China at the 28nm node of technology (introduced in 2008 and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Cameras| Semiconductor Industry| Virtual Reality

Roku to Launch its Players in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reports that Roku is planning to to launch its streaming technology in Germany to compete with Amazon Fire TV stick and Google Chromecast. What We Think Of course, its streaming …

Tags:Germany| Roku| Smart TV

Google’s New AI Photo Upscaling Tech is Jaw-Dropping

by Bob Raikes

What They Say PetaPixel reported on some very clever software technology from Google that is capable of dramatically improving low resolution images. The technique is called SR3 or ‘Super-Resolution via Repeated Refinement’. Google said: …

Tags:Google| Software| Upscaling

LCD TV Panel Prices Keep Falling

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Confirming the reports we’ve seen from several analysts, DSCC updated its report on TV LCD panel pricing and confirmed the continued fall in pricing and its forecast for further falls by …

Tags:Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Pricing