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TV Market Up in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Gfu in Germany has reported on the TV market in Germany. The value of the market was up to €2.6 billion over the first three quarters of the year and …

Tags:Germany| TV Set Market

Displaymate Looks at OnePlus 8T

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dr Ray Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies reviewed the display on the OnePlus 8T smartphone and found that it is a very good display with up to 1,090 cd/m² peak brightness. Like …

Tags:OLEDs| Samsung Display| Smartphones| Testing| Visual Quality

Study: Smart TVs raise piracy and privacy concerns

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The article gives some interesting data on how (US) consumers view the sharing of data to SmartTV operators. There are also some interesting numbers on how viewers feel about video piracy. …

Tags:Privacy| Smart TV

Netflix Develops lower bitrates and higher quality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Netflix published a blog post to say that it is to use its latest codec schemes including per-title encode optimisations and per-shot dynamic optimisation on its back catalogue to reduce the …

Tags:Codecs| Netflix| Streaming Video

Some Smartphone Market Items

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Here are three links with useful news on the smartphone market Strategy Analytics said that Samsung Captured 88 Percent Market-Share of 5G Smartphone Shipments in Western Europe in H1 2020 Report: …

Tags:5G| Huawei| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market

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Taiwanese Panel Makers Have Good Sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Taiwanese panel makers have put out their monthly data – see below graphics. What We Think Given the recovery in large panel prices, the boost in large panel volumes will …

Tags:AUO| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Innolux| Large LCD Supply| Small Medium Panel Supply| Taiwan

Apple’s iPhone 12 OLED screens supplied by Samsung and LG

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung is supplying the displays for three of the new iPhone 12 models (Mini, Pro, Pro Max), with LG Display supplying OLED panels for the 6.1-inch iPhone …

Tags:Flexible Displays| iPhone| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung Display| Small Medium Panel Supply

A discussion on MicroLED efficiency – microLED displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED Info published an article that highlights the high level of energy loss in the driving circuitry of microLEDs. The report suggests that the energy loss could be enough that it …

Tags:MicroLED| Power Consumption

LG Innotek Improves Ferrites for Power Supplies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that LG Innotek has developed a new “highly efficient” ferrite material that can be used in power supplies to improve efficiency and could also allow much smaller …

Tags:Materials| R&D (Research & Development)| TVs (TV Sets)