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TiVo’s First Android TV dongle May Be Its Last

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At the 2020 CES, TiVo announced its TiVo Stream 4K dongle and started shipping it in May. (What Bob Saw on the Net 17/01/2020) However, the device was based on Android …

Tags:Roku| Streaming Dongles| Tivo

Displays Of The Year Names Slip Out Quietly

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In looking around for some information related to the coverage last year by Information Display of Display Week, I stumbled on the most recent edition of the publication which includes details …

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Letsgodigital Creates Renders of Flip 3/Fold 3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Letsgodigital has shown some product renders of the anticipated Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 which were created by designer, Giuseppe Spinelli. The new model is expected to have a larger 1.83″ …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

LCD Capex Up, OLED Down

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Our Display Daily today is a guest article from Bob O’Brien of DSCC and covers OLED materials, but Ross Young from the firm also published a blog about capex in the …

Tags:Investment| LCD Fabs| OLED Fabs

SMPTE To Hold Event on Colour

by Bob Raikes

What They Say On the 3rd June, SMPTE is running an event on colour called “Expanding the Color Universe: The Next Frontier in Imaging”. In the program, the aim is tol discuss the impact …

Tags:Colour (Color)| SMPTE

Zeiss and Deutsche Telekom launch tooz DevKit smart glasses in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported a link to the Tooz devkit launch in Germany, but optics.org dug a little deeper. The kit was launched in China in January and is now available in Germany. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)| Waveguide Display

Metaform optics point to compact AR/VR glasses and imaging components

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that a project at the University of Rochester, in the US has developed a fabrication procedure for combining metasurfaces and freeform optics into one optical component, offering designers a …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Metasurfaces| Optics

Samsung Electronics Co. is mulling multiple new smartphone launches in August

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yonhap in Korea reports that because it is not expected to launch new Galaxy Note models this August, Samsung may bring forward the timings for its next set of smartphones. The …

Tags:Samsung| Smartphones

Taiwan large-size panel shipments drop 3% in 1Q21, says Digitimes Research

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research said that Q1 shipments of large LCDs from Taiwan (excluding Sharp) was down 3.4% but was up 51.5% to 72.25 million units with notebook panels down just 2.6% as …

Tags:Forecasts| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Taiwan

Sigmaintell – TV Panel Prices Still Rising

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell Research of China published its early May edition of TV panel price trends and it shows a continuing increase in pricing from April to May from $2 on 32″ panels …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)

Apple Invests in Lasers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple is to invest $410 million in II-VI a US maker of optics and lasers that will allow the firm to boost its manufacturing capacity. The firm makes VCSELs that Apple …

Tags:Laser| LiDAR

With new optical device, Stanford engineers can fine tune the color of light

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group from Stanford University has published a paper on April 23 in Nature Communications, that allows engineers to fine tune the frequencies of individual photons in a stream of light …

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