Empowering display industry professionals with cutting-edge insights and analysis
What They Say Innolux and AUO released their monthly data and unsurprisingly, given the weak market conditions, the firms were both well down. Innolux said that its revenues were up 11.1% on August in September, to $533 million, down 42.4% on 2021. Large panel shipments were up 6.7% to 9.23 million and small/medium panels were … Read more
What They Say Google has said that it plans to require hardware makers to support the AV1 codec in tablets and smartphones to allow support for Android 14, which is due to be in beta in April 2023. YouTube now re-encodes all of its 4K and 8K videos in AV1 according to Porotocol and Google … Read more
What They Say Protocol Entertainment reported that Amazon has canned the Glow projection devices after poor sales. The aim of the device was to enable video interaction with children remotely for caregivers, grandparents and others. Kids are terrible cameramen,” Behrang Assadi, who used to head marketing for Amazon Glow, told Protoc some time ago. “They … Read more
What They Say LG said that its webOS is now available on up to 200 partner brands including Seiki, Eko, Stream System, Konka, Aiwa and Hyundai – a ten-fold increase from when LG commenced licensing its webOS ecosystem in early 2021. The firm also said that the first webOS Hub-powered OLED TVs from LG’s partner TV brands … Read more
What They Say Invidis reports that Screen Experts of Münster in Germany has developed a patented coating process for making LED displays fireproof and called, imaginitively enough ‘Screen Fire Protectio’ or SFP. No details of the multi-layer process are disclosed, but there are two different layers. As a result, the displays can achieve building material classes A2-s1-d0 … Read more
What They Say Tom’s Hardware reviewed the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition GPU and add-in board. The review suggests it might be an alternative to AMD or Nvidia, especially for AV1 and VP9 encoding. However, we noted a comment about a Smooth Sync feature that we had previously missed. The feature effectively blurs or interpolates 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 end of this week. The WSJ tests Apple Crash detection, by crashing some cars. Sasmung Looks at the future of TV (hint, Samsung doesn’t think they are going to get smaller or less important!) … 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 end of this week. Intel has released the long-awaited Intel Arc A750 and A770 Samsung G65B: New information about the smart 240 Hz displays The RTX 4090, a successful debut of the Ada … Read more
What They Say The European Parliament passed the regulation, recommended by the EU Commission, that will mean that all new phones and tablets sold in the EU from the autumn of 2024 will have to use USB Type-C connections for charging. The regulation will apply to notebooks in 2026. The rules also apply to eReaders … Read more
What They Say We reported on the deal between Sharp and E Ink for the use of IGZO backplanes for EPD displays. I wasn’t sure about the real advantages of going to IGZO, which costs more than amorphous silicon and is significantly harder to make, so I reached out to the firm. The answer came … Read more
What They Say The Elec has confirmed what we heard at the Peerless Event in London recently, that Samsung will next ship the 89″ ‘The Wall’ TV which uses a 0.5mm pitch to produce an UltraHD resolution display. The Elec said that the 101″ and 114″ models that had been planned have not started production … Read more
What They Say Futuresource put out a forecast that the LED display market will grow to be worth $19.5 billion by 2026, a CAGR of 21%. The company said that the recovery of the market post-pandemic has been ‘remarkable’ after major disruption, especially to the events, rental and staging markets. ‘We can expect LED to … Read more
Jon Peddie Research
4 St. Gabrielle Ct.
Tiburon, California 94920
415-435-9368
© 2025 Jon Peddie Research
