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What They Say Panasonic Avionics has announced a new in-flight entertainment (IFE) system, Astrova, based on OLED displays. The displays are available in 13″, 16″ and, later, 22″, but they are said to have UltraHD resolution and HDR for ‘cinematic’ performance. Also new is a facility to support USB-C power to give up to 67W … Read more
New research from Omdia’s Mobile PC Market Tracker has found that, after 15.5% year on year (Y/Y) decline in 2022, notebook PC shipments will return to positive growth of 1.0% in 2023 if the Russia-Ukraine war can be successfully concluded by end of 2022. Jeff Lin, Senior Principal Analyst for Omdia’s Notebook PC / Tablet … Read more
What They Say Omdia posted a blog post that included the firm’s mobile PC forecast for 2021-27. The firm said that it thinks that notebook PC shipments will return to positive growth of 1.0% in 2023 if the Russia-Ukraine war can be successfully concluded by end of 2022. The blog said that: “Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality … Read more
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 72 million units in the second quarter of 2022, a 12.6% decline from the second quarter of 2021, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This is the sharpest decline in nine years for the global PC market, brought on by geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges impacting all regional markets. … Read more
What They Say The Verge got its hands on Oppo’s Air Glass AR monocle after the company has shown some in the US, although it is not available to buy there, being sold just in China. The Verge classifies it as a ‘simple notification machine’. It has to be used with an Oppo smartphone. The … Read more
What They Say HDTVTest’s Vincent Teoh has previously reviewed the Samsung S95B and the Sony A95K TVs which both use the SDC QD-OLED panel. In another video, he compares them directly side-by-side. (Sony & Samsung QD-OLED Reviewed). He picks deeply into the detailed differences. In conclusion, he likes the Samsung for gaming partly because of … Read more
Leveraging their respective strengths in the hospitality market, LG Electronics and Amazon have co-developed the first integration of Amazon’s popular Alexa AI with LG hotel TVs using the powerful webOS™ smart TV platform, the companies announced at HITEC 2022, the world’s largest hospitality technology trade show. “We believe the intuitive and accessible nature of voice … Read more
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs declined 15.3% year over year to 71.3 million units in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. This was the second consecutive quarter of lower shipments following two years of growth. The decline was worse … Read more
What They Say IDC published its Q2 data for the PC market and highlighted that shipments were down 15.3% year on year to 71.3 million units in Q2. This was the second consecutive quarter of decline although above the 62.1 million and 65.1 million units in 2018 and 2019 consecutively. IDC fears that consumers will … Read more
(Etulipa from Amsterdam would have been a better title, but to be accurate the song probably should have been Tulips from Keukenhof and that doesn’t scan!) I have been following the technology of electrowetting for nineteen years since Philips produced a paper in Nature that explained the concept. Developments from that original research have continued … Read more
What They Say Caixin reports that BOE has been certified by Apple as a supplier of displays for the iPhone 14, quoting “several people familiar with the matter”. The report said that BOE will start shipping in September and will deliver five million units this year. BOE did not respond to a request for comment … Read more
What They Say RoadtoVR reported on a recent demo by Kopin of its latest OLED display at AWE 2022 and also highlighted the pancake optics that the firm has been developing. Kopin’s P95 pancake optic has just a 17mm distance between the display and lens, along with a 95° field-of-view. The display shown was the … Read more
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