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Digital video viewers take TV to smaller screens. Here’s a breakdown

What They Say After a drop during the Covid pandemic, US viewers have continued to increase their viewing of video on non-TV devices, with the number reaching 59% according to Leichtman Research. The firm estimates that almost 260 million US consumers, or 76.9% of the population, will be monthly digital video viewers this year. 87.1% will … Read more

Links Week Ending 11th 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.  Goertek, a maker of Apple AirPods and a lot of VR headsets said it had lost “a major overseas customer.” for ‘a smart acoustic product’  This 1970s tank simulator drives … Read more

Links Week Ending 18th 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.  Rishi Sunak mansion projection mapped by Greenpeace  Samsung Galaxy Tab users just got a great free upgrade S.Korea’s Iljin Group halts sale of its display maker VRpilot announces partnerships … Read more

Omdia Research Finds Display Demand Expected to Rebound in 2023

Omdia’s latest Display long-term demand forecast tracker indicates that area demand for displays in 2023 will grow by 6.2% year-on-year (YoY). With softened inflation and slowing interest rate hikes, plummeting demand has bottomed out, thereby making way for a rebound to normalization in demand by the second half of 2023. Display demand in 2022 was … Read more

LG Display Unveils the World’s First High-Resolution Stretchable Display

LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, unveiled the world’s first 12-inch high-resolution Stretchable display equipped with an outstanding free-form technology that enables it to be extended, folded, and twisted without distortion or damage. The company’s newly unveiled Stretchable display is the industry’s first to achieve 20 percent stretchability, a resolution of 100ppi, … Read more

Changes in Interfaces Could Really Help 8K Adoption

There have been a number of significant developments in recent weeks in the world of display, and especially monitor, interfacing over recent weeks. It’s time for me to catch up. First, in September, the USB Implementors’ Forum (USB-IF) said that it was going to double the throughput of USB4 while using the same copper cables … Read more

MicroLED: Have We Reached the Bottom of the Hype?

The market for MicroLED displays is still tiny but could reach $1.3B by 2027, according to DSCC’s latest MicroLED Display Technology and Market Outlook Report. Lowering manufacturing costs will be necessary before MicroLED can become competitive against other technologies, such as OLED. “MicroLED was initially presented as an ideal display technology for all applications but the … Read more

LCD TV Panel Prices Hit Bottom in September, Rebounding in Q4

After fifteen months of decreases, LCD TV panel prices finally hit bottom in September 2022 and prices for several sizes increased in October. We now expect to see a modest increase in prices through the end of the year with prices plateauing in the first quarter above their all-time lows. The last phase of the … Read more