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Z Fold 2 Teardown: 3rd Time’s The Charm?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit took the latest Z Fold 3 and tore it down. It found that the hinge is much simpler than previous foldable devices but didn’t like the repairability because of the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Teardowns

Samsung Maintains U.S. Market Share Lead in Smart TV at 32%

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung is still the biggest smart TV supplier in the US (with 32%), but TCL has now gone past Vizio to take the #2 spot with 14% of sales according to …

Tags:Samsung| Smart TV| TCL| TV Set Market| USA| Vizio

Super-resolution imaging with diagonal sampling

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists from Peking University recognised that one of the limits on digital photography resolution, along with ccd pixel size, is that lenses are circular, while sensors are all rectangular. Sampling usually …

Tags:Digital Photography| R&D (Research & Development)| Resolution

Got 3 Hours to Kill?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say This is a video (3 hours 21 minutes) of Huawei’s Developer Conference Keynote. What We Think If Huawei is important to you, it might be worth a look. The link below …

Tags:Huawei

ORF launches Ultra HD trial via DVB-T2 in Austria

by Bob Raikes

What They Say National broadcaster, ORF, of Austria has launched a trial of broadcasting UltraHD content using DVB-T2 technology. The broadcaster hopes to increase the content sent this way. What We Think A CI+ …

Tags:Austria| Broadcast| DVB-T & T2| UltraHD (4KTV)

Amazon announces new Fire TV sticks with HD+HDR, Dolby Atmos

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon has new Fire TV sticks. The Lite version ($29.99) has FullHD with HDR (HLG, HDR10, HDR10+) while the Fire TV stick ($39.99) adds Dolby Atmos. Although the sticks support HDR …

Tags:Amazon| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video

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BOE aims to overtake Samsung in OLED in 5 years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that BOE wants to get 40% share of the flexible OLED market by 2024, based on comments at a display event in China. The firm believes it will …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Smartphones

Samsung Display claims QD display plan is on schedule

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Samsung Display confirmed at an industry event that QD OLED development is on track. The company held a ceremony in July to celebrate the installation of equipment …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung Display