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Samsung has announced that it sold $1 billion worth of TVs in North America in October – a new company record. More than half of the company’s North American market share (35.1% in the US and 38.4% in Canada, according to the NPD Group) was made up of UltraHD TVs in Q3.
There are reports from Business Korea that Samsung Display will raise its investment in flexible OLED panel manufacturing. Specifically, the company will continue to focus on small- and mid-size OLED displays. Currently, SDC produces its flexible OLED panels at a G6 line in Tangjeong. New rumours say that the company’s L5 G5 LCD plant, in … Read more
37% of Americans – 91 million people – expect to purchase technology items or related accessories during ‘Black Friday Week’ (the Monday before Thanksgiving through the Monday after, aka Cyber Monday), says the CTA (formerly the CEA). The consumer Black Friday experience is moving away from traditional in-store deals and towards online and mobile shopping … Read more
Tech Data has put together a three-strong team dedicated to wearable technology. The members are Mike Cain (business development manager for wearables); Mica Jakins (senior category manager); and Stacey Bliss (assistant category manager). All three come from within Tech Data. They will work with the both consumer electronics and mobile teams.
HDTVTest, Leeds Trinity University and UK retailer Crampton and Moore ran a public display shootout in the UK recently. Two OLED TVs (Panasonic’s CZ950 and LG’s EF9500) were compared to Panasonic’s last (and widely considered to be the best) plasma TV, the ZT60. Each was calibrated and shown to a panel of 28 ‘AV enthusiasts’. … Read more
The Korean government has announced some specifics of the measures it is taking to prop up the country’s OLED industry (Korea Offers Tax Benefits as OLED Incentive). On the 11th November Yoon Sang-jick – Korea’s minister of trade, industry and energy – said that the new measures are focused around boosting exports. He announced that … Read more
Samsung Display has released a fun video, highlighting the benefits of AMOLED technology on a smartphone compared to LCD. Watch it at http://tinyurl.com/q44jbg9. Analyst Comment I was surprised (but pleased) to see the video – despite its cartoony style – go into detail on features including display structures, contrast ratio and colour gamut, which a … Read more
A report from Cheetah Mobile Security Lab claims that Android tablets are being sold online, including from large sites like Amazon, with a pre-installed trojan virus. The malware, called Cloudsota, is able to open installed apps and replace boot animations and wallpapers with adverts. Cheetah believes that more than 17,200 infected tablets have been sold … Read more
eMagin reported Q3 results with a net loss of $2.2 million, up from the net loss of $1.03 million, a widening by 115.6% YoY. Turnover for the quarter was down 11% YoY to $4.6 million from $5.1 million. Net loss for the nine month period was down however, to $2 million, from $3.7 million, whereas … Read more
The Playstation Vue TV service is now available on Amazon devices, including the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. Chromecast support will follow soon.
If you never heard of Dispelix Oy before you are not alone, this startup company is a spin off from VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland. The company offers something that the AR companies have been looking for quite some time, a thin optical lightguide. According to the press release, the new solution allows for distortion … Read more
The advent of sub-pixel rendering technologies is stirring up controversy as to the meaning of resolution in a display. Traditionally, pixel resolution has been counted as the number red, green and blue sub-pixels that are needed to create a full color pixel. But sub-pixel rendering techniques can share sub-pixels creating new ways to display pixels. … Read more
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