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Survey: 86% Europeans will watch World Cup at home on TVs

What They Say Quoting a survey commissioned by TCL in five countries of Europe (UK, France, Germany, Poland and Spain), on TV and the World Cup, Advanced Television reported that  61% will follow the 2022 competition. This is mostly because they are football fans, as 83% will continue to watch it even if their national … Read more

Lextar Wins Award for Integrated LED Drivers

What They Say Lextar sent us a press release in Chinese that set out that that the company has won a Smart Display Industrial Alliance (SDIA*) award for its actively driven microLEDs. Lextar_release_20221124-1.docx The firm said that it has designed a patented package that integrates an overall LED + active driver package that is less than 150? … Read more

Links Week Ending 25th November 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week.  LG Display: All new OLED TV panels produced now use ‘EX’ technology BBC to complete rollout of BBC One HD regional versions by Spring 2023 (Despite its strong technology the … Read more

Foxconn Chinese iPhone Plant in Unrest Breakout

What They Say Reuters reports that ‘hundreds of workers; have have joined in with unrest at the Foxconn Zhengzhou factory, breaking surveillance cameras and smashing windows. The outbreak is said to have been triggered by a plan to delay bonus payments, according to livestreams from protestors. Some said that they had been forced to share … Read more

Samsung Display Nullifies LG Display’s OLED patent

What They Say The Elec reported that SFC Co Ltd, a joint venture in Korea of Samsung Display and Japanese chemical firm Hodogaya won a battle with LG Display over patent number 2277303 in June of this year, after a complaint was made in January. The patent relates to the use of deuterium in OLEDs.  The paper … Read more

Qatar 2022: E-paper displays for the soccer World Cup

What They Say Papercast said that it has installed 23″ ePaper displays for passenger information in public transport in Qatar just in time for the World Cup and claims that the project is “one of the largest single e-paper installations” in the world. What We Think We’ve covered Papercast several times over the years and the firm … Read more

Epistar Signs for Collaboration with PlayNitride

What They Say PlayNitride has done a deal with Epistar for the PlayNitride Display Co Ltd to collaborate with Epistar to build a 6” Micro LED Chip-On-Wafer (COW) production line at a site to be designated by Epistar. In consideration for PlayNitride Display’s collaboration and services provided under the Cooperation Agreement, Epistar will pay PlayNitride Display … Read more

DXOMark Rates the Google Pixel 7

What They Say DXOMark had a good look at the Google Pixel 7. The site rated the display performance as ‘excellent… for its segment’ and an improvement from the Pixel 6. It was close to the best score in the Friends & Family use case and is in the top ten of all tested phones. … Read more

Forecast: US connected video devices to top 1.1 Billion

What They Say Advanced TV published a forecast from Kagan for internet-connected video devices in the US that predicts a CAGR of 2.3% from 2021-26 with around 8.5 devices per household remaining broadly static over the period.  SmartTVs have the highest growth potential while Consoles have the highest chance of declining The market for smartphones … Read more

Samsung and LG make over two-thirds of premium TVs sold worldwide

What They Say Quoting data attributed to Omdia, the KED said that Samsung took 51.1% of the premium TV market ($2,500 and above) in the first three quarters of the year with LG coming in with 21.2% market share. Sony was third with 20.3%. Samsung sold 6.72 million QLED sets, taking over 70% of the segment … Read more