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ViewSonic: WQHD monitor with DisplayHDR 600 and 240 Hz

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Prad.de reported on a new monitor advertised by ViewSonic in China, the VX2716-2KC-PRO which is a 1000R curved quadHD VA monitor with DisplayHDR 600 certification and up to 240Hz refresh rate. …

Tags:China| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| ViewSonic

Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panel shipments to slip in 3Q21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research said that it expects the small to medium-size panel shipments from Taiwanese panel makers to decline by around 1.1% on a quarterly basis to 210 million after growing 11.7% …

Tags:FeaturePhones (mobile phones)| Small & Medium Displays| Smartphones| Taiwan

Global OEM TV Shipments rise 16.5% in 1H21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes quoted data from AVC Revo on the shipments of TVs in the first half of the year by OEMs which it rates at 45.9 million up 16.5%. The three biggest …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Market Data| ODMs & OEMs| TPV (TP Vision)| TV Set Market

The Economist Looks at Robotic Lorry Unloading

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The TV business and the monitor businesses are both very much logistics businesses. Get your logistics right and you can run effective and profitable businesses – get them wrong and the …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Production Technology| TVs (TV Sets)

Sigmaintell Sees TV Growth Slowing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell suggested that in the second half of 2021, the global TV market will weaken. While the first half of 2021 was 6.1% up, the second half is likely to see …

Tags:Market Data| TVs (TV Sets)

Kglass to expand into Chinese foldable UTG market

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reported that a display glass processing firm, Kglass, will expand into China via a South Korean software firm, Softcen, which will take a 40% share in Kglass. It will …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Korea

Oppo Unveils Next-Generation Under-Screen Camera Technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo said in a press release that it has a new under-display camera (UDC) that is claimed to maintain the performance of the display. It says it has improved performance by: …

Tags:Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras

Links Week Ending 13th 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 the second part of this week. 2021 State Of The Mobile Baseband (I’m …

Tags:Apple| China| Chromebooks| DVB-T & T2| HP Inc| India| Italy| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Qualcomm| Smartphones

Links Week Ending 6th 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 the second part of this week. The Biography of the Pixel = a …

Tags:China| Desktop Monitors| Financial Data| Germany| Google| Graphics Processing| LG Electronics (LGE)| Outdoor Displays| Roku| Semiconductor Market| Smartphones

HP Has Seven New Gaming Monitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP released seven gaming monitors in its ‘X-Series’, although it doesn’t seem to have made a press release. The monitors will be released in the US through to October. The details …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HP Inc

Facebook’s New Bug-Eyed VR Prototype

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Facebook Research Labs posted a blog post that showed a headset concept that adds displays on the outside of the device to show the user’s eyes, a concept it calls ‘reverse …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality