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Links Week Ending 1st Jan 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. Matthew Mancinelli puts 4KUniverse up for sale, wants $75m for 51% …

Tags:Game Playing| Outdoor Displays| Projectors| UltraHD & 4K

Thanks to all our Subscribers!

by Bob Raikes

Thanks to all our subscribers that have supported our move to a ‘freemium’ model. We’d still like to boost the number of subscribers, so if you have colleagues that you think might find our …

Movistar, Samsung TV Integration Deal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Iberia has done a deal with Movistar, the TV and mobile operator in Spain and South America (and which owns the O2 brand in the UK), to show content from …

Tags:Samsung| Smart TV| Spain

Tianma aims to ship 20 million flexible OLED panels in 2021

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Korean sources report that Tianma of China would like to ship 40 million OLED panels in 2021, with 50% being flexible. The sources quote Stone Partners as reporting that Tianma shipped …

Tags:Market Data| OLED Fabs| Tianma

Taiwan’s TSMC begins hiring blitz for $12bn US plant

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that TSMC is aggressively recruiting over 600 engineers and executives for what will be its first U.S. plant in 20 years. The company plans to invest $12 billion in …

Tags:Semiconductor Market| TSMC

Transparent Electronics: $20 Billion Market Comes into Sight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IDTechEx has a new report looking at the market for transparent electronics materials and thinks the market will be over $20 billion in value, but not until 2041! There will be …

Tags:Glass| Solar Panels| Transparent Displays

‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ VR Support Comes to SteamVR Headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microsoft has released a free patch for Flight Simulator that allows support for VR headsets that support OpenXR, which includes the Valve Index, Oculus Rift S, Windows MR headsets like HP …

Tags:Game Playing| Microsoft| Virtual Displays

Visionox Expands Flexible OLED Production Capacity Again

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea, quoting Chinese sources, said that Visionox has started operations at its flexible OLED fab in Guangzhou. Visionox’s 6th-generation flexible OLED line, V3, at Hefei, Anhui Province began …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| OLED Fabs

BT Sport brings fans closer to the action with multi-camera 8K VR360

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tiledmedia (which develops 360° video technology) reported on developments at BT Sport in the UK in delivering a 360° service in 8K using the firm’s ClearVR technology. Tiledmedia claims the following …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 360 Degree Video| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UK (United Kingdom)

VueReal Offers a High Yield Flipchip microLED Structure for Lower Cost Displays for Automotive, Wearable, and TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say VueReal of Canada published a release that said that its vertical LED structure for microLEDs is now capable of producing LEDs with edge sizes of less than 8?m with production yields …

Tags:MicroLED

World’s largest Supernova screen installed in Japan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DNP of Japan said that it has installed its largest ever Supernova Infinity display is a modular screen system, featuring ALR (Ambient Light Rejection technology). It has an 18.3 metre (724″!) …

Tags:Laser Projectors| Panasonic

Amazon Prime Video launches on Freesat

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon Prime video has done a deal to allow Amazon Prime Video to launch on the UK’s FreeSat platform. Prime Video joins Freesat’s other services, including Netflix, UKTV Play, Britbox and …

Tags:Amazon| FTA (Free to Air)| Satellite| SVOD