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Apple Expands Self-Repair Programme to Europe

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has extended its ‘self-repair’ programme for iPhones and Macs to the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, and Poland. New countries were added to the dropdown on Apple’s special …

Tags:Apple| Europe| Right to Repair| warranty

LGD Aggressively Pursuing Automotive OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 2022  Global Materials/Parts/Equipment Tech Fair, hosted by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology and the Electronic Times took place a few days ago. At it, UDC’s Mike Hack confirmed the …

Tags:Automotive| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Materials| OLEDs| UDC

ViewSonic VX2722 4K OLED with HDMI 2.1 and USB-C

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ViewSonic has launched a new VX2722 UltraHD OLED monitor in China and certified to DisplayHDR 400 True Black. The monitor is said to be aimed at creatives and have ‘high colour …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Desktop Monitors| OLED Monitors| ViewSonic

Giant Samsung/Peerless Wall Installed in Morocco

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Peerless-AV have just completed a huge (87.84m x 2.7m high) circular LED video wall in the auditorium of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. The panels used were from Samsung and the …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Peerless AV| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Choosing the Right Microdisplay for Near-to-Eye Applications

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Insight Media has published a White Paper called “Choosing the Right Microdisplay for Near-to-Eye Applications”. It goes through the pros and cons of LCD, LCOS, OLED and microLED devices. The white …

Tags:LCD displays| LCOS| Microdisplays| MicroLED| OLEDs

Mid-week Links – Week Ending 9th December 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. UDC Announces Passing of  Sherwin I. Seligsohn Intel …

Tags:5K (5120 x 2880)| Desktop Monitors| E Ink| Events| Intel| ISE 2022| LG Electronics (LGE)| Projectors| Semiconductor Market| Smart TV| Smartphones| UltraHD (4KTV)| Virtual Sets

Niantic Using Lumis Waveguide – Guttag Investigates

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Occasional DD contributor and HMD guru, Karl Guttag, has published a blog post in which he speculates (based on a forensic analysis of published videos in comparison to his own photos) …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Waveguide Display

Latest Apple Headset Rumours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that he now believes that the widely rumoured Apple headset will not start volume shipping until the second half of 2023 and that as a result, …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

DSCC Downgrades Display Capacity Growth

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC said that for the fourth consecutive quarter it has downgraded it display capacity forecast as more delays and cancellations are recognised in the face of weak demand and poor pricing. …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| Forecasts| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Supply Chain

Huawei Vision Glass: New Micro OLED smart glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei has a new HMD that is being sold in China (only for now) as the Vision Glass. The glasses use microOLEDs to create an image equvalent to a 120″ image …

Tags:China| Huawei| SmartGlasses