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Vizio Dumps OLED Prices in US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Best Buy is offering the Vizio 55″ to signed-in Best Buy account holders for just $899 and the 65″ for $1,499. What We Think Wow! That’s seriously cheap. For LG it …

Tags:Best Buy| OLED TVs| Pricing| USA| Vizio

LG Display to Expand OLED Supply to Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec has said that LG Display is expanding its E6-1 and E6-2 lines to boost output by 25K/month additional substrates of LTPO (5K, then 10K in May 2021 and another …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| LG Displays (LGD)| LTPO TFT| OLED Fabs| Smartphones

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Yeolight Makes Segmented OLED for Automotive

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yeolight Technology of China has posted a video of its segmented OLED automotive light system. OLED-Info posted these details. “The OLED lighting module, which is shaped like a triangle, uses 50 …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| OLEDs

Slingbox Stops Service in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sling Media said that it would discontinue the supply its Slingbox products with immediate effect and would discontinue its support of the service in two years time in November 2022. The …

Tags:STBs| Streaming Video

SVOD penetration at 80% of TV households in US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to Leichtman Research Group, 60% of US households have both a pay TV service and at least one SVOD subscription. A further 20% of households have an SVOD subscription but …

Tags:Pay TV| Streaming Video| USA

Sky Deutschland to Chop More SD

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sky Deutschland is switching more of its SD channels to be exclusively HD on its cable service on November 26th 2020. The HD channels are available at no extra charge. On …

Tags:Cable| Germany| Sky| TV Viewing

We Catch up with Sharp NEC Display Solutions

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, NEC Display Solutions became a joint venture subsidiary of Sharp and is now Sharp NEC Display Solutions. (Newly Born Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. Starts Business) What We …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| NEC| sharp

Apple Warranties

Apple’s Warranties & Service Contracts

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week has had a deep dive into Apple’s warranty and extended warranty business and found that the company has been doing better and better over recent years. IT’s warranty accruals …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| warranty

LG Brings Projection into the Meeting Room

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG has stared to ship the BU50NST a 5000 ANSI Lumen LP UltraHD single 0.47″ chip DLP projector that was originally announced in June. It has a zoom (1.6X) lens and …

Tags:Laser Phosphor Projectors| LG Electronics (LGE)