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Apple aims to adopt tandem OLEDs in its next iPad Pro tablets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Apple would like to adopt OLED for its iPad Pro tablets next year, but has asked LG Display and Samsung Display to develop tandem OLEDs, with a …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display

(Mis)understanding HDMI 2.1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FlatpanelsHD as done a deepish dig into the weeds of HDMI2.1 to try to illuminate some of the aspects of the bandwidth specifications often quoted on TVs. It also looks at …

Tags:HDMI

OOH Ads Seen As More Trustworthy

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A survey conducted in the US and completed by 2,000 adults has suggested that Out-of-Home advertising are seen as more trustworthy and relevant than other advertising. The level has increased this …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| Market Data

This weeks links week ending 27th November 2020

by Bob Raikes

Samsung strengthens Smart TV voice capabilities by adding Google Assistant to 2020 TVs along with Alexa and Bixby Innolux TV assembly lines running at full capacity Digitimes said that the firm’s set factories are …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Graphics Software| Innolux| PlayStation| Samsung| Smart TV| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Sega Sammy to quit game arcade business in Japan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In digging around about The Void, the VR-based arcade firm, we spotted that a couple of weeks ago, the Japan Times reported that Sega Sammy Holdings will sell up its arcade …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)

Sub-second video latency from Limelight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Limelight Networks said that it can supply online streamed video on a global scale with ‘sub-second latency’. This should allow interactive video applications and the following applications. Live sports – In-event …

Tags:Game Playing| Streaming Video

Samsung Display ordered to compensate employee for patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that an employee of Samsung Display has been awarded compensation to a staff member by a court in Seoul for a patent relating to oxide TFTs in G6 …

Tags:Employment and Redundancies| Patents

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Premium LED for almost every use case

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Invidis published what looked like a sponsored post that highlighted the advantages of Samsung’s LED solutions. I thought it had a useful summary table of the firm’s premium ‘The Wall ‘ …

Tags:LED| LED Cinema| Samsung

iPhone 12 Pro Max OLED Display Technology Shoot-Out

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ray Soneira has published his in-depth review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max display and found it to be at the leading edge of OLED (and other) smartphones. As usual, he …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Measurement| OLEDs| Smartphones

NextGen TV Comes to Raleigh

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TVTechnology reported that five local TV stations are now transmitting using the ASTC 3.0 standard. The stations include Sinclair-owned WLFL (CW) and WRDC (MyNet), Nexstar’s WNCN (CBS), Univision’s WUVC and the …

Tags:ATSC| Broadcast

The Void may be toast, but what about out-of-home VR?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on the demise of The Void a VR-based LBE company. This is a follow up article that has a bit more about VR LBE with some comments from a …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality