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Links – Mid-week week starting 12th December 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle part of this week. Vestaboard thinks its flip message board is an ‘ideal present for the smart home‘ – at only $3,200! (or you could buy a lot of smartTVs!) tvOS 16.2 … Read more

Samsung to Show 77″ QD-OLED TV at CES

What They Say The ET News said in a Korean language article that Samsung Electronics would show a new 77″ QD-OLED TV at CES 2023 next month. The article suggests that a relatively visible and powerful launch suggests that Samsung Electronics is keen to further promote its QD-OLED products. It also said that the yield … Read more

AGC Develops Anti-Glare Glass for 4K HD Displays

AGC Inc., a Tokyo-based world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, announced that it has developed anti-glare (AG) glass for 4K high-definition displays. The new AG glass reduces glare (random unevenness on a screen caused by optical factors) by approximately 30% while suppressing light reflection. The product will be launched in the first half of 2023, with the … Read more

Introducing the 16″ DM160 OLED

Weighing in at just 5.8lbs (2.6kg) the DM160 is an extremely lightweight, high-contrast 16″ OLED monitor designed for use in color critical production, post, and broadcast applications. Industry leading fast mode processing, a durable all metal chassis, our most advanced feature set, and a compact form-factor make the DM160 an exceptional reference grade monitoring solution … Read more

Q3’22 Foldable Market Reaches Record High, But Will Decline in Q4’22 on US Market Weakness as iPhone 14 Series Dominates

Although Q3’22 was a record quarter for foldable smartphone shipments, it won’t carry into Q4’22 with foldable phones suffering their first Y/Y decline according to DSCC’s Quarterly Foldable/Rollable Display Shipment and Technology Report. What happened? While Samsung’s Q3’22 foldable smartphone shipments were within 1% of expectations and the Korean giant dominated a record Q3’22 foldable … Read more

Middle East & Africa Personal Computing Devices Market Continues to Normalize After Period of Exceptionally High Demand

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, posted a year-on-year decline of 12.8% during the third quarter of 2022, according to the latest industry analysis conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC), with the global technology research and consulting firm’s newly updated Worldwide … Read more

LG Electronics, Corning Collaborate on Automotive Curved Glass

What They Say The Korea Economic Daily (KED) said that LG Electronics and Corning are to collaborate to supply curved displays to European automotive makers. LG will use Corning’s ColdForm technology which is said to have a 25% lower carbon footprint than conventional thermoformed curved glass production processes and a reduction of 14.5 million kg of … Read more

Links – Week Ending 16th December 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the later part of this week. ViewSonic LS610HDH: LED projector with 4000 lumens Samsung TV Plus expands Italian channel line-up and Germany: Samsung TV Plus adds DAZN FAST+ Vizio: Only 7% of Viewership on Its … Read more

How far will legacy take the PC industry?

If all, or even most, applications end up running on servers in the cloud, who needs a Windows PC? Most users care less about the OS and underlying hardware, and more (maybe only) about the applications. Where and how an application runs is of no more concern or interest than where a TV show or … Read more

Displace: Vacuum display sticks to ‘any wall’

What They Say Yesterday we published a press release for Displace – a TV that ‘sticks to the wall’ using Displace TV’s ‘proprietary active-loop vacuum technology’ (Displace to Debut the World’s First Truly Wireless TV at CES 2023). The TVs are claimed as the first ‘truly wireless’ TVs and are based on 55″ OLEDs and can … Read more

IHG Hotels & Resorts Set to Debut Philips MediaSuite TVs in Guest Rooms as Part of New Global Partnership with PPDS

PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips digital signage, interactive displays, direct view LED and professional TV products and solutions, is delighted to announce a brand new partnership with IHG Hotels & Resorts, bringing its advanced Chromecast™ built-in Philips MediaSuite hospitality TVs to deliver IHG’s next generation in-room entertainment solution. Aligning the two companies’ ambitions … Read more

Arcadia Cinema: 100.000 Lumens in PLF ENERGIA Screen

What They Say Cinemeccanica joined the list of companies preparing for Avatar 2 by upgrading an Italian PLF cinema, the PLF Energia Screen, to 100,000 lumens on a 30 metre wide screen. It has added a second RGB Laser source LUX2 from Cinemeccanica to the existing Christie CP4230 dual projector configuration.  What We Think This article also got … Read more