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I am always fascinated by disruptive changes in our display landscape: (i) players moving in new directions (such as Tianma’s announcement that it plans a large panel fab, broadening its market scope from being a small panel specialist), (ii) the overturning of preconceived notions (like the role of Mattrix technology in using a a-Si backplane … Read more
The European smartphone market declined by 11% year-on-year in Q2 2022, according to the latest research from Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor service, registering the lowest quarterly total since the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. A deteriorating economic climate and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty continued to hamper both Europe’s and the world’s recovery from the COVID-19 … Read more
ProjectorScreen.com, a leading online source of high quality projectors and screens, and ProjectorCentral.com, “The World’s Largest Projector Resource™,” have announced the results of their 2022 Laser TV Showdown. The August 4th event at ProjectorScreen.com’s New Jersey headquarters faced-off 14 ultra-short throw home theater projectors as a means to broadly survey the emerging and crowded Laser … Read more
What They Say An article in the Korea Herald looks at the development of AR HUDs by Hyundai Mobis in Korea, said to be the first firm to make HUDs locally. In the article, which highlights the difficulty of making AR Huds (which add information from the surroundings) to regular HUDs that report on the … Read more
The following is being released by A.B. Data, Ltd., the Court-appointed Settlement Administrator for the Class Action Settlement in Christopher Julian, et al. v. TTE Technology, Inc. dba TCL North America, Case No. 3:20-CV-02857, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California TO ALL PERSONS WHO PURCHASED TCL TELEVISIONS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA … Read more
What They Say A class action in California has been settled by TCL for $2.9 million over a claim by TCL that its sets were deceptively advertised as having “120Hz CMI,” “120Hz Clear Motion Index,” and/or “120Hz CMI Effective Refresh Rate” when they used 60Hz panels. The claim is online here. Payments of up to … Read more
Sharp Electronics Corporation Device Division (SECD) announced that its new Reflective IGZO (R-IGZO) 5.0-inch Class (diagonal) display for handheld applications is now available in a backlit option. This update provides added flexibility to achieve superb sunlight viewability with incredibly low power consumption. Samples are available now, with mass production starting in Q1 of 2023. The … Read more
We have reported a couple of times on the Shytech technology from Continental that is being developed for hiding the displays of vehicles under the dashboard. (A Deeper Dive into the Hidden Display in ShyTech). The displays are disguised as natural materials such as wood, leather or metal. But Continental are not alone in developing … Read more
What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Display has joined LG Display in developing OLED on silicon microdisplays and that they are both developing LED on silicon technology. The blog reports that SDC is aiming for 10K cd/m² and 3K ppi to supply its parent company in 2024 with OLEDs for VR, while for … Read more
What They Say DSCC released the latest update of its Advanced TV Display cost report and published an extract on its blog. It pointed out that for OLED, the total costs for manufacture by LG in Korea and China are comparable, as Korea has a fully depreciated production line, but China has lower personnel, indirect … Read more
What They Say DSCC has updated its capex and equipment report and said that total LCD and OLED equipment spending remained relatively flat on a move-in basis despite a number of delays and cancellations. These fab schedule changes were mostly offset by higher spending for G8.5-G8.7 FMM VTE systems (vertical deposition). It has also been … Read more
What They Say Gloomy news this week from DSCC which has looked ahead to try to see where the oversupply in the LCD business might come to an end. However, the firm’s forecast puts fab utilisation at just the low 80s of percent by the end of 2023. The firm published its demand forecast which … Read more
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