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Hinged, Dual-Screen Display Coming Soon with Touch Option

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Toms Hardware has spotted an unusual dual 24″ ‘clamshell’ display unit that can be used with a desktop or notebook to provide more display real estate. The display was developed as …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Desktop Monitors| Foldable Devices

HDTV Test Likes the MSI 240Hz OLED Notebook for Gaming

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HDTVTest had a look at the new MSI Raider GR67 HX notebook which has a 240Hz QuadHD OLED which Vincent Teoh describes as having the best motion performance he has seen …

Tags:Game Playing| Notebooks| OLED Notebooks| Testing

OLED Panel Revenues Increase 12% Y/Y in Q2’22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog article with extracts from its latest OLED shipment report and said that OLED panel revenues increased 12% Y/Y on 3% Y/Y unit declines as a result of …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| Financial Data| OLEDs| Supply Chain

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Glassmakers Shrug Off Display Downturn in Q2

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say DSCC gave a comparison of the financial results in Q2 of three major display glass makers, Corning, NEG and AGC in the light of the weak demand for TV LCD panels. …

Tags:Financial Data| Glass

Samsung Ark Monitor is very Curved

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Electronics has a new 55″ 1000R curved UltraHD gaming display with 165Hz refresh and a new controller. The ‘Quantum miniLED’ backlight has 14 bits of control and Samsung said that …

Tags:Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing

EISA Awards 2022-2023 announced

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The 2022-23 EISA Awards were announced with, this year, eight different TV categories, but with the 8K TV category dropped. Samsung did not feature in the list of brands and FlatPanelsHD …

Tags:Awards| Projectors| TVs (TV Sets)

Asus launches first 42″ OLED gaming monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Asus is now releasing the ROG Swift PG42UQ (42″) and PG48UQ (48″) OLED gaming monitors which were announced at CES (OLED Also Important in IT at CES). The monitors are based …

Tags:Asus| Game Playing| OLED Monitors

LG DualUp 28MQ780 Monitor Review: A Unique New Display Shape

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tom’s Hardware looked at the LG DualUp 28MQ780 monitor which has a 16:18 aspect ratio (and is effectively dual stacked 16:9 panels). The resolution is 2560 x 2880 so it’s the …

Tags:Aspect Ratios| Desktop Monitors| LG Electronics (LGE)

Global Smart TV Shipments to See Slight 1.9% Growth in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Market research group Kagan has release a forecast for SmartTVs that suggests that the segment will not take more share, with around 72%, below the level of 2020 and with a …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Smart TV

Hands-on with Meta Reality Labs’ Starburst prototype for HDR VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At Siggraph this year, Meta showed its ‘Starburst’ demonstration system that is intended to look at what you can do to achieve very good HDR in a headset, without worrying about …

Tags:| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Virtual Reality