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What They Say Kopin said that it has appointed a new CEO, Michael Murray, to replace Dr John Fan as CEO. Fan will remain as chairman of Kopin and all the subsidiaries and will continue to focus on strategic and scientific matters especially related to the Metaverse. Murray joins Kopin from Ultra Electronics Group, a … Read more
What They Say We have previously reported on forecasts from DSCC that Samsung would retain its share of supply to Apple for the iPhone 14 at around the same level of last year, despite the efforts of BOE and LGD to increase their share. Now the Korea Economic Daily has forecast that SDC will report … Read more
What They Say Direct view LED specialist, Infiled has said that it has an LED display for virtual production that is completely and seamlessly curved rather than using flat panels. The unit is designed around a 2.6mm pitch system and can be used with a virtual floor. The 6m x 3m screen, which uses Brompton’s … Read more
Vestel, one of the top three consumer electronics manufacturers in Europe, announced the launch of its 97XX Series of 4K UHD Set-top Boxes. Designed to deliver a seamless, exceptional value home entertainment experience from within an ultra-compact, minimalist design, the series includes smart as well as non-smart set-top box options, with either T2 only or … Read more
What They Say A project in Germany to develop an internet-delivered service to provide linear channels and compete with terrestrial broadcast is being developed using the DVB-I standard. Firms involved include Sony, TPVision (Philips licensee) and Vestel as well as German broadcasters and others. Key features of DVB-I include structured service lists which enable a … Read more
What They Say Protocol Entertainment looked at functions that TVs could perform beyond simply streaming TV content and reported that Samsung had said that viewers of its advertising supported TV Plus service have watched close to 3 billion hours of content over the past year, double the previous year. The article suggests that TV makers … Read more
What They Say Protocol Entertainment said that the next Pico VR headset (from the ByteDance subsidiary) will support pass-through VR and mixed reality operation. The same feature is expected to be in the forthcoming Meta Cambria headset. Protocol previously said that Pico would launch a device with face and eye tracking as well as better … Read more
What They Say Because of the slowdown in the global market for tablets since the pandemic, the KED reports that both Samsung and LG are planning to expand more into niche tablet categories. The firm quotes Canalys data that the market in Q2 was down 11% to 34.8 million units. LG launched the new LG … Read more
What They Say IFA Berlin said that just over 161,000 people attended the show over the five days and claimed that 2,500 journalists arrived from 100 countries. 80% of the exhibition space was taken up ‘despite lockdowns in China’ What We Think I was not surprised that the number was a third down on 2019’s … Read more
What They Say Although Samsung Display is doing well with its OLED sales to Apple (Samsung set for record Q3 profit on iPhone 14 series shipments), the same is not true of other Korean technology companies. The Korea Herald quoted 24 out of 30 chip specialists as believing that the chip industry in the country … Read more
What They Say Quoting data from GfK released around the IFA show, DigitalTVEurope said that the European TV market saw a drop of 6% in value in the first half of the year, with only the largest sets with screen sizes over 75″ increasing – and they were up 21%. Overall CE sales were further … Read more
What They Say OLEDNet.com published an article highlighting that Japan’s Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL) has developed a 5,291 ppi microOLED that it discussed at the recent IMID event. The development is intended to solve two challenges for the architecture: Source/gate drivers are located outside the display area which means a significant bezel width, which is … Read more
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