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Streaming Numbers Going Up Again in US

According to a report in Advanced Television, US streamnig numbers are growing again. Kantar’s Entertainment on Demand study reports that from September to December 2022, the number of US households with video streaming rose 2.5 million, reaching a total of 115.6 million households. Household penetration of video streaming is now 89 per cent. SVoD contracted … Read more

Next Generation TV Display Trends From CES 2023

Suppliers showcased their NextGen display products at CES giving a glimpse of what to expect in 2023 and beyond. Technology innovations on display panel drive product innovations in the consumer TV market. This year, display suppliers such as LG Display, Samsung Display, TCL China Star and others showcased ranges of technology developments for TV display … Read more

Sharp/NEC to Pre-View the New NEC P627UL Laser Projector at ISE 2023

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe is launching its latest laser projector, the NEC P627UL. The new model requires zero filter and lamp replacement thanks to its completely sealed optical engine and laser light source. Paired with minimal power consumption, the P627UL is suitable for usage in higher education as well as in corporate meeting rooms. … Read more

Coherent Introduces 150 W Monaco Laser for Large OLED Display Glass Cutting

Coherent announced that it introduced a new Monaco infrared industrial femtosecond laser configuration with 150 W of output power that is ideal for cutting of large OLED display glass. The migration of OLED screens to IT devices, such as tablets and laptops, is accelerating the demand for laser tools with higher output power that can … Read more

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide IT Spending to Grow 2.4% in 2023

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2023, an increase of 2.4% from 2022, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. This is down from the previous quarter’s forecast of 5.1% growth. While inflation continues to erode consumer purchasing power and drive device spending down, overall enterprise IT spending is expected to remain … Read more

Novarad’s AR System Demonstrates High Accuracy in Neurosurgical Procedure

The efficacy of Novarad’s VisAR Augmented Reality Guidance system demonstrated an angular error of 1.3° (close to what can be achieved with a robot and below the 2° standard for stereotactic cranial navigation set by the FDA in a recent published article in the peer reviewed journal Neurosurgery for simulated external ventricular drain (EVD) placement. While EVD … Read more

Korea Extends Tax Breaks for Display Manufacturers

The Ministry of Strategy and Finance announced on Jan. 18 a revised enforcement rule of the Restriction of Special Taxation Act, which added five display technologies to the list of the national strategic technologies. The five included three panel technologies — AMOLED, micro LED and QD nanomaterial display. The remaining two were related to deposition/coating materials for … Read more

Researchers Show Improved Biometrics Using a QLED Display

We improved biometric authentication security using dual recognition based on fingerprint image detection and skin-temperature-change sensing under quantum dot light-emitting diode (QLED) displays. QLEDs are more advantageous than organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in terms of the contrast classification of patterns such as those in fingerprint recognition, owing to their narrow full-width-half-maximum. In this work, scattered, … Read more

GSEO Shipping Apple VR Lens Modules This Spring

Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) will supply lens modules for VR head-mounted devices, to be launched by Apple in 2023, with shipments to begin in February-March 2023, according to GSEO’s supply chain makers. DigiTimes Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC is probably going to be in June. The buzz of Apple stans is that the trickle … Read more

Technology Supply Chains Become a Geopolitical Issue

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The location of “oil reserves [has] defined geopolitics for the last five decades,” Gelsinger said in an interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Where the technology supply chains are, and where semiconductors are built, is more important for the next 5 decades.” CNN Intel has said that it will be … Read more

How Impactful Will Gaming Be on TV Sales?

Overall total consumer spending on video games in the United States totaled $56.6 billion in 2022, down 5%, according to the Entertainment Software Association and the NPD Group. The groups said that video game sales stabilized following back-to-back record years in 2020 and 2021. The $56.6 billion figure includes revenues from all content categories (including … Read more

MiniLEDs: Brightness in the Gloom of 2023

With a $14 billion investment in miniLEDs between 2019 and 2021, miniLED backlight units seem to be on a huge upswing. Neglected for some time by the high-end display market, mainly dominated by OLEDs, LCDs are back in force with a new technology building block designed to compete with the contrast ratio and image quality provided by … Read more