Do You Need Netflix to Endorse Your Displays?
A recent product announcement went out with a big splash on “Netflix officially sponsored” and it’s hard to understand what that means.
Global TV Shipments Tilt Favorably Towards China’s Leading Brands
Samsung may be the number one TV brand for seventeen years running, but it’s China’s HiSense and TCL who are the real winners. It seems like HiSense was a little irked about Samsung’s PR splash yesterday basically saying, Sure, Samsung is still the leading seller of TVs worldwide but, it went down in sales, but … Read more
Chinese TV Brands Pull Panel Orders Forward, so Non-Mainstream Brands Will Be First to Encounter Hikes in Panel Prices
Global TV shipments are projected to drop by 24.3% QoQ to 41.99 million units for 1Q23. This shipment figure represents a new low for first-quarter result in almost a decade. TV brands on the whole have not been performing well, but Chinese brands are in a worse situation because this year’s Lunar New Year holiday … Read more
TP Vision Delivers Growth in Key Segments of the Philips TV & Sound Business
Sales of OLED Ambilight TVs show a YoY increase of 22% driving business growth. Despite increasingly difficult global economic and politically challenges, TP Vision has maintained growth in key segments of both the companies TV and Audio businesses with the performance of OLED Ambilight TVs and GO Sports products a particular highlight in the company’s … Read more
By the End of 2024, 40% of Asian-based Supply Chain Organizations Will Recover 2 Percentage Points of Margin Through Rebalanced Resiliency Efforts
IDC predicts by end of 2024, 40% of Asian-based supply chain organizations will have rebalanced resiliency efforts to reflect the realities of inflation and necessary efficiency to recover 2 percentage points of margin. This is just one of IDC’s predictions unveiled in its latest report, IDC FutureScape : Worldwide Manufacturing 202 3 Predictions – APeJ Implications. … Read more
SmartKem’s World First: A Monolithic MicroLED Using Thin-Film Transistors
SmartKem claims to have created the world’s first monolithic micro-LED display using organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The company believes that its method of processing a thin-film transistor backplane on top of Gallium Nitride LEDs has the potential to accelerate the commercialization of microLED displays, which promise higher brightness, lower power consumption and longer lifetime. MicroLEDs … Read more
S23 Ultra Closes in on Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max and 14 Pro on Display Benchmarks
The Dxomark for Samsung’s latest smartphone, the S23 Ultra, shows marked improvements over the S22 Ultra making it the best Android phone on the market, and the best for video performance, overall. It may lag Apple’s top of the line offerings, the iPhone Pro and iPhone Pro Max, but the differences in performance are minor. … Read more
Samsung TVs Are Number One
According to market research firm Omdia, in 2022, Samsung ranked first in the TV market for the 17th consecutive year, selling 9.65 million units of QLED and Neo QLED TVs and dominating the ultra-large TV market segment for TVs over 75-inches and 80-inches with market shares of 36.1% and 42.9%, respectively. For the premium TV … Read more
Sony Bravia 2023 Lineup Leaked Online
The company is supposed to be delivering an announcement shortly on the Bravia models for 2023 but a YouTube video, subsequently taken down, provided an early leak of information. At CES 2023, Sony was more interested in its PVR2 launch in 2023 then its television lines. However, there are scattered reports online of a possible … Read more
Snap AR Brings Real-Time Ray Tracing to Phones
Four years ago, Snap acquired Adshir’s real-time software-based ray-tracing technology and has now deployed it for use on any smartphone. It may not get the big press that Meta gets with every VR pronouncement, but in many ways, Snap AR is doing a much better job of helping its audience transition to a mixed reality … Read more
Apple Helping Samsung and LG Best BOE and Move to 8th Gen Lines
News out of Korea has Apple awarding its newest iPad Pro OLED business to the Korean giants in both 10.9 in and 12.9 in configurations. The next generation of iPad Pros are unlikely to be available this year, it may be as far out as 2025 before we see any significant volume, although you never … Read more
Emotn Launches the N1 – A Netflix Officially-Licensed Home Projector
Dynamic smart projector brand, Emotn, is thrilled to announce the launch of its first and latest Netflix officially licensed projector, the Emotn N1. Packed with native 1080P full HD clarity, 500 ANSI Lumens and a maximum projection size of 120 inches, the Emotn N1 instantly enters the extensive Netflix library after booting and presents its … Read more
