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Q320 results in highest single quarter of global TV shipments

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Data from Trendforce showed that TV volumes reached a new historic high of 62.05 million units in Q3 2020, up 38.8% QoQ and 12.9% YoY partly because of deferred shipments from …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Samsung| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Apple repair rate

Apple Warranty Costs Drop

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple’s warranty claims rate has dropped from 2.2% a year ago, to 1.2% ($1.26 billion) for the first half of 2020. What We Think Somebody in Apple’s engineering division should get …

Tags:Apple| warranty

Netflix in HDR on Sky Q

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sky in the UK has said that its Sky Q box will now allow the viewing of Netflix HDR titles. The platform already supported Sky Originals and Disney+ in HDR. What …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| UK (United Kingdom)

Ultraleap Launches TouchFree Application

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ultraleap has released a free application that works to allow retrofitted touch kiosks to add a touch-like experience without physical touch. What We Think Ultraleap was formed when Ultrahaptics joined with …

Tags:Haptics| Touch Market| Touchless Touch

Qualcomm to Supply Branded Gaming Smartphones?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm is working with Asus to develop gaming smartphones based on its forthcoming Snapdragon 875 APU that may be sold under its own brands. What We Think I’m not convinced that …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| Qualcomm| Smartphones

Inductors enter the world of quantum mechanics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There may be ways to replace inductors with solid state devices that depend on quantum theory and where the inductance does not scale in a linear fashion with size. What We …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)

The Six Pillars of Ultra HD

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yoeri Geutskens has written a good guide to all the features of ‘the full set’ of UltraHD technologies. UHD or Ultra HD spatial resolution – 4K or 8K HDR or High …

Tags:3D Object-based Audio| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| UltraHD & 4K| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

LGD Revenues by Technology

LGD Revenues Shift to OLED, but LCD Changes Pushed Back

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Pulse News in Korea has reported that from this year, LG Display will earn more from its OLEDs than its LCDs in the TV panel market, quoting data from Omdia. The …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| LG Displays (LGD)