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Little Impact in Taiwan from Earthquakes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Taiwan suffered magnitude 6.4 and 6.8 earthquakes yesterday and Trendforce of Taiwan reported on the impact of the events on chips and panels. Chip makers have not been significantly affected, it …

Tags:AUO| Innolux| Semiconductors| Supply Chain| Taiwan

Links Week Starting 19th September 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 – only a few as I have …

Tags:Android| China| Desktop Monitors| Europe| Game Playing| Gaze Recognition| HTC| Market Data| MiniLED| Rugged Displays| Samsung| Smart TV| Sports and Stadiums| tablets| TCL| Transparent Displays| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Virtual Reality

Sony INZONE M9: Low Input Lag, Some Quality Issues

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony reentered the computer monitor market this year with its Inzone units. (Sony Impresses Reviewers with M9 Monitor). Rtings had a look at the M9 and decided that it liked the …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| sony

Samsung S80TB Promises “Stunning Colour”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung has added another model to its S8 Viewfinity line with the 27″ S80TB which adds to the S80PB. The unit has an UltraHD and support for HDR10. Typical brightness is …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Samsung| Thunderbolt

LG Wins DCI Approval for LED Cinema

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DCI approved another direct LED cinema system from LG Electronics, the LDAA025-2K with IMS3000 media block. What We Think Given the tough times in the cinema industry, so it’s hard to …

Tags:LED Cinema| LG Electronics (LGE)| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

World’s largest OLED TV set for Korean Release on Sept. 21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported that LG Electronics will start selling a 97″ OLED TV based on the sample seen at IFA from September 2021 in Korea and ‘later’ elsewhere. Features include …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| TVs (TV Sets)

MicroTouch Introduces Mach Series Touch Solutions

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MicroTouch announced a new range of ‘Mach’ touch solutions from 15.6″ to 65″. The sets have boosted colour performance based on 8 bit panels and using optical bonding and with up …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Touch Displays| Touch Market

IPS TFT

IPS Black Impresses with Contrast

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TFTCentral compared four different IPS monitors based IPS panels from BOE (CoolerMaster GM32-FD), AUO (Nixeus NX-EDG27240X), LGD (Eve Spectrum 4K) and the Dell Ultrasharp U32230E which uses the LGD 31.5″ UltraHD …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| IPS| LCD displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Testing

Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TFTCentral reviewed the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 ( LS32BG850NUXXU, or perhaps shortened to 32BG850) which has a 240Hz refresh rate with UltraHD and a miniLED backlight with 1,196 zones to achieve …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| MiniLED| Samsung| VESA

IBC Crowd proc

IBC Down 34% in Visitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IBC released its visitor numbers at 37,071 from 170 countries and said that there were more than 1,000 exhibitors. The number was 34% down on the 2019 total of 56,390. What …

Tags:IBC 2022

Printing Highly Reflective Mirrors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to Alfred Poor, publisher of Health Tech Insider for pointing me to an article about the use of ink-jet printing to create Bragg mirrors. The technology has been developed …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)