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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

Daktronics Explains ‘Going Concern’ Audit Comments

What They Say Daktronics said that qualifications added to the firm’s audit that suggested that there was doubt in its ‘ability to continue as a going concern’ and late filing of its annual report. The firm said that it was ‘pursuing additional liquidity through various means’. The company also said that it ‘expects to conclude … Read more

E Ink Announces E Ink Gallery™ 3 Moves Into Mass Production With Customer Launches

E Ink, the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, announced that E Ink Gallery™ 3 has moved into mass production, with customers: Bigme, BOOX, iFlyTek, iReader, PocketBook, Readmoo and AOC expect to launch their products with Gallery 3 with ship dates to customers in 2023 and beyond. E Ink has been … Read more

Interactive Displays Helped by Education in China

What They Say Omdia said that growth in the global public display market was 6.7% in Q3 2022 as a boost in roll-outs of educational deals in China boosted output of IFP/Touch displays to over 700K in a quarter for the first time. The analyst expects that category to continue to expand as other regions … Read more