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Vizio Claims $100 Million in Upfront Ad Commitments

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio said that it has completed negotiations with advertisers with commitments of $100 million, up fourfold from a year ago. The sales efforts are said to have been helped by the …

Tags:Advertising| Financial Data| Vizio

Samsung, LG to Showcase Display Innovations at IMID

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Economic Daily reported plans from the IMID event in Korea. Among the highlights was a demo of a prototype Flex In & Out display, also called the S-Foldable (pictured). …

Tags:Events| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display

Samsung Plans $200 billion Investment

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung is to boost its investment plans to a total of $206 billion over the next three years, creating 40,000 new jobs and will include Samsung Display according to the Korea …

Tags:Forecasts| Investment| Samsung| Semiconductors| TSMC

Covid Hits E Ink Production

by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink is having problems supplying enough of its EPD panels according to GoodEReader.com. The prime reason is the effect of the coronavirus on its production facility in Yangzhou in Eastern …

Tags:Covid-19| E Ink| Supply Chain

Links 26th August 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 this week. I usually leave it until Friday, but there are a lot …

Tags:5G| Events| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LG Electronics (LGE)| Oculus VR| OLEDs| Pay TV| Projection Mapping| Samsung| Security| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)

Lux Research Forecasts XR Development

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lux Research has released (registration required) the exec summary of a report it has created on AR and VR developments. It forecasts that smart glasses will take 2-5 years to arrive …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Optics| Virtual Reality

Nuclear Fusion Getting Nearer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There has been lots of talk about the feasibility of generating clean power with nuclear fusion after a successful experiment that suggested it might be achievable. A group at the Lawrence …

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

Advanced TV Market to Exceed $50 Billion in 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC added more to its release of data from its Advanced TV report (OLED Share Increased in Booming Advanced TV Market in Q2 2021). In the new blog post, it shows …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| MicroLED| MiniLED| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

DSCC revised flexible

DSCC Upgrades Foldable Forecast

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Yesterday, we covered reports of strong pre-sales for Samsung’s new foldable smartphones and just after we published (of course!), DSCC said that it had released an update to its Foldable/Rollable Display …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Forecasts| Market Data

Samsung: DQHD monitor with QLED, 120 Hz and KVM switch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As well as its very high end miniLED Neo G9 monitor (Samsung’s 49-inch mini-LED gaming monitor will sell for $2,500), Samsung has a new 49″ 5120 x 1440 (32:9) monitor with …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Samsung