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Mid-week Links – Week Ending 18th November 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. Samsung QN900B 8k QLED TV Review (RTings looks …

TV Market Declining – GfU

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU published data for the World Television day – November 21st and highlighted research from ARD/ZDF in Germany that showed that daily usage time for moving images is 214 minutes …

Tags:Germany| Market Data| TV Viewing| TVs (TV Sets)

Meta Abandons its Portal Smart Displays and Smartwatch Project

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reported that in a ‘townhall meeting’ with staff, Meta said that it would stop developing smart displays (the Portal product range) and smartwatches and that half the 11,000 positions it …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Reorganisation & Restructuring

Links Week Starting 14th November 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 first part of this week. Interested in VFX? – BorisFX held a …

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KT&T developed a full-color OLED microdisplay with a brightness of 12,000 nits

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say KT&T is a spin-off of INT Tech of Taiwan and is based in Taizhou, China and is commercialising INT Tech technology for use in OLED microdisplay according to OLED-info.com. The firm …

Tags:China| MicroOLED (aka OLEoS)| OLEDs

MediaTek announces Pentonic 1000 SoC for 4K 120Hz TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Mediatek has added a new SoC to its Pentonic line for premium 4K HDR 120Hz TVs with support for up to 144Hz using VRR. The device features: hardware-based decoding of HEVC, …

Tags:Mediatek| SOCs| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD & 4K

Sony cooperates with Kramer (Again)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony is teaming with Kramer to work on combining Kramer’s software with its own analytics to address the education market. The Bravia display will become the control processor for all the …

Tags:Education| Pro AV| sony

Apple’s AR/VR headset will reportedly begin mass production in March.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes said that its sources have ‘hinted’ that Apple’s new headset will be made exclusively by Pegatron with planned sales of 750K units in 2023 and with production starting at the …

Tags:Apple| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Sharp to Restructure SDP

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sharp reported its quarterly and half year result to the end of September. Overall sales were up 3.3% year on year for the first half at $9.02 billion with profits down …

Tags:Financial Data| sharp

Bright, efficient and stable LEDs made using nanocrystals of perovskite material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nature has published a paper that describes new perovskite LEDs (PeLEDs) made from perovskite nanocrystals (around 10nm) that have a coating of benzylphosphonic acid (BPA) via a ‘simple reaction’. The article said: …

Tags:LED| PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)

TV shipments will hold up against recession

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Broadband TV News reported a talk by Paul Gray of Omdia at the HbbTV Symposium in Prague in which he forecast that 2023 would be a quiet year with a weak start …

Tags:Europe| Forecasts| TV Set Market

LG Display facing delays in OLEDoS spending plan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec said that plans by LG Display to make OLEDoS displays (after being requested by Apple) for headset use have been delayed as there is no agreement between LG Corporation, the …

Tags:Financial Data| Investment| LG Displays (LGD)| Microdisplays