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LG Electronics slashes its OLED TV prices in Korea

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea JoongAng Daily reported that LG Electronics has cut the prices of its OLED TVs in Korea, with a G Series (Evo panel) unit down 17.9% to Won4.6 million ($3,600+ …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)

Nintendo Plans Switch Model With Bigger Samsung OLED Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reported that the next version of the Nintendo Switch console will use a 7″ OLED from Samsung Display which will be put into production in June. The 720P panel is …

Tags:Consoles| Nintendo Consoles| OLEDs| Samsung Display

What Vizio’s S-1 filing tells us about the TV Set business

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Protocol newsletter had a dig into Vizio’s S-1 prospectus that includes the story of how the founder, William Wang, was in a plane crash before founding the company. It also …

Tags:Financial Data| TVs (TV Sets)| Vizio

Taiwan’s Acer says component shortage squeezes PC makers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Nikkei has published a report on supply chain issues for technology companies, with quotes from Acer. Issues that are impacting device and display makers include: Semiconductors, water & glass (as …

Tags:Glass| Polarisers| Production Equipment| Semiconductor Market

Pervoskite Green Achieves Close to OLED EQE

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group from European, US and several Korean universities has produced a paper, published in the prestigious ‘Nature’ journal, that highlights the development perovskite nanocrystal LEDs of colour-stable red emissions, centred …

Tags:PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)

Sony PlayStation moves further away from video

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has said that from the end of August, the PlayStation Store will no longer offer film and TV purchases and rentals, taking PlayStation out of the TVOD market. Fierce Video …

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LG Applies for Patent for Extendable TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LetsGoDigital reports that LG has applied for a patent for an ‘extendable’ OLED TV. When not in use, the TV drops back into the case, with just a small part of …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Patents| TVs (TV Sets)

New Architecture for OLED Displays from Dresden

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers at the Institute for Applied Physics at TU Dresden have had a paper published in ‘Nature Materials’ that suggests a new device concept for high-efficiency and low-voltage vertical organic lighting-emitting …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Germany| OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

Ennostar has order visibility till 3Q21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Ennostar (the holding company for Lextar and Epistar) now has orders to keep itself busy until Q3 2021, with utilisation at 80% to 90%. More than 50% of …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| Pen Input

Kopin Corporation Reports’ Very Solid Results’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microdisplay maker Kopin Corp released its Q4 and full year results. Revenue was up 36% year on year to $40.1 million and Q4 was 60% up from a year ago. The …

Tags:Financial Data| Kopin

Holography: The Future Of Augmented Reality Wearables

by Bob Raikes

What They Say VividQ, who we reported on from AWE Europe a couple of years ago, has issued a white paper to talk about what it sees as the future of AR wearables with …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays

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MediaTek unveils new AI-based 4K smart TV chip

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MediaTek has a new 4K smartTV chip, the MT9638 which includes an integrated AI processing unit for applications such as scaling with real time content and scene recognition, picture quality optimisation …

Tags:Mediatek| Semiconductors| Smart TV