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Novel LC Metalens Offers Electric Zoom

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics and Samsung’s SAIT have made a new metalens that can be focused using voltage instead of mechanically moving its components. Metalenses are …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Optics

8K Display Pricing Trend Analysis

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Chris Chinnock, wearing his 8K Association hat, has looked at the development of pricing in 8K displays, and reports that 8K has followed the general price trend of increasing prices, but …

Tags:LCD Panels| Pricing| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Solus to Supply LG Display with HTL for OLED panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea reports that Solus has announced that it will be supplying hole transport layer (HTL) to LG Display for its WOLED displays that are used in TV panels. …

Tags:Korea| OLED Materials| Supply Chain

DSCC Marks Corning Samsung Win for UTG in Foldables

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say DSCC has a new report on foldable and rollable smartphones and published a blog article that revealed some highlights including news of a win by Corning in sharing supply for the …

Tags:Corning| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Market Data

Samsung MiniLED TV One of the Best LCDs, but Can’t Match OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FlatPanelsHD has had close look at the Samsung QN95A miniLED ‘Neo QLED’ TV which was based on a VA panel (there is a suggestion in the article that IPS and VA …

Tags:MiniLED| Samsung| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)

New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although the legislation has still to be passed by the Assembly, the New York State Senate has overwhelmingly (51-21) voted to pass electronics right-to-repair legislation. It is reported to be the …

Tags:Right to Repair| USA| warranty

NBCUniversal To Provide Live 4k Hdr Coverage Of NBC’s Tokyo Olympics Primetime Show For First Time

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the US, NBCUniversal will provide live coverage of the NBC broadcast network’s Olympics primetime show in UltraHD resolution with HDR and Atmos sound in some markets. NBC’s primetime coverage of …

Tags:Olympics| Sports and Stadiums| UltraHD (4KTV)

LG USA to offer 5-year ‘limited panel warranty’ on G1 OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Electronics has extended its warranty in the US on its G1 and Z1 OLED TVs to five years as a ‘limited panel warranty’, with parts and labour covered in the …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| USA| warranty

Xbox Will Be Built Into TVs, Xbox-Branded Streaming Devices Announced

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microsoft said that it is working with TV manufacturers around the world to “embed the Xbox experience directly into” internet-connected TVs. The aim is to require only the addition of a …

Tags:Game Playing| Microsoft| Smart TV

Karl Guttag Tears Down the Nreal Technology in LG headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Karl Guttag has got access to an Nreal-based headset in the form being delivered as a product by LG in Korea and has conducted a detailed three part teardown. He liked …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Optics

Links Week Commencing 14th June 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 first part of this week. Technicolor deploys 20 million RDK broadband gateways …

Global smartphone shipments reach 650 million units in 1H21, says Digitimes Research

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research reports that 650 million smartphones will be sold in the first half of 2021, with Samsung Electronics, Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo the top five brands and all up …

Tags:5G| Forecasts| Market Data| Smartphones