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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
What They Say Acer announced its quarterly result for the year to September which showed that the firm is down 32.6% from YTD 2021 at $6.78 billion. Q3 was down to $2.01 billion and net income was down 37.8% from last year at $59 million. In October, revenues in 20922 were down by 35.6% YoY … Read more
What They Say Microsoft has a new Surface Studio 2+ All-in-one PC which has a 3:2 aspect ratio 28″ IPS LCD with resolution of 4500 x 3000 (193ppi). Output is 500 cd/m² and contrast is 1,200:1. It has 10-point touch and is protected with Gorilla Glass 3. Dolby Vision is supported. The stand allows the monitor … Read more
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, 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
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
What They Say VR headset maker, Pimax, has revealed more details of its forthcoming Crystal VR headset. It will have eye and face tracking and use QLED displays with 2880 x 2880 resolution and miniLED backlights at up to 160Hz frame rate. The headset is intended to be used with a driving PC and uses … Read more
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
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
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. Connected TV Advertising’s Big Secret: Two Can Be a Crowd (Bloom) Are We Ready for Shopping Lists on Smart Contact Lenses? Apple’s AR glasses could be pushed back to … Read more
VIOSO is celebrating a landmark 100,000 confirmed test images produced with its free test pattern generator tool, which has found global adoption across the pro-AV industry. The tool, a free-to-use multi-display/edge blending test pattern generator, creates customised panorama, soft-edge and LED test images (in high-res PNG) for accurate projection or display alignment on site. It also … Read more
What They Say YouTube said that it wold bring its ‘Shorts’ vertical format short-form videos to TV screens. Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer, said: “When we introduced this new format, we optimised the experience for the mobile creator and viewer. Today, we’re expanding viewing access to Shorts to our fastest growing surface: the TV screen. While … Read more
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