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Everlight ships POB miniLED BLUs for TCL TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reports that Everlight Electronics has shipped POB (package on board) miniLED backlight units (BLU) for TCL’s LCD TVs starting in the second-quarter 2020. The revenues from miniLED will be around …

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A Very Interesting OLED Development

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Display Daily today has an article about a new development that was reported recently by Nature. It highlights how UDC has researched plasmonic enhancement of OLEDs to extend OLED lifetime and …

Tags:OLEDs| R&D (Research & Development)

AirTies Cloud surpasses 25m homes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AirTies has said that its Cloud service is now being used by 25 million homes. The company makes Wi-fi systems (STBs and gateways) for the use of TV and other ISP …

Tags:STBs| VideoConferencing| Wi-Fi

Omdia: PVOD v cinema trends varying by market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Omdia said that PVOD v cinema trends varying by geographical market. The research was conducted around the release for Mulan. What We Think The cinema business is heading for an existential …

Tags:Cinema| PLF (Premium Large Format) Cinema

Covid-19: Virus can survive on touchscreens for 28 days

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers in Australia’s national science agency (CSIRO) have reported that Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces including touchscreens for up to 28 days. At 20°C, the virus was ‘extremely robust’, but …

Tags:Covid-19| Haptics| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch Market

SMPTE Publishes Study on WCG

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists at Dolby and RiT in New York have conducted a project, published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, that confirms that viewers had a preference for images that had an …

Tags:Colour Quality| DCI P3| Rec 2020| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

OLED TV sales topped 10 million since 2013

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Pulse News in Korea reported that OLED TV sales have reached 10 million units, cumulatively. The paper also said that global OLED TV shipment will reach 1.2 million units in the …

Tags:Forecasts| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLED TVs| TVs (TV Sets)

Apple unveils iPhone 12 series

by Bob Raikes

What They Say After months of speculation, and slightly later in the year than before, Apple finally announced the iPhone 12 series. The 6.1″ iPhone 12 and the 5.4″ iPhone 12 mini get the …

Tags:Apple| Corning| Glass| iPhone| Smartphones

Reuters Presents HP’s Future Vision for VR (Free!)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters is holding a free webinar on the topic of the Future of VR with HP. Speakers are: Elias Stephan, Head of Global Virtual Reality Business Development, HP Jeff Marshall, CEO, …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality

Analysts Differ on PC Market Growth & Shares

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Gartner & IDC joined Canalys in putting out their Q3 PC results. (Lenovo, HP, and Dell led PCs to 10-year shipment high in Q3). Gartner saw a bigger market than Canalys …

Tags:Chromebooks| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)