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Ynvisible Signs Exclusive License Agreement to RISE Electrochromic Display Technology

April 28, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

Ynvisible Interactive Inc., a fast-growing printed e-paper display company, positioning its products as the lowest energy-consuming e-paper displays on the market, announces the expansion of its license from the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) a leading research institute in the field of printed electronics. The amended license agreement includes exclusive worldwide rights to key patent … Read more

LG Earnings Call Summary

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display held its earnings call this week. The firm announce operating profit of $30 million and net profit of $42.6 million on sales of $5.08 billion, down from last quarter as shipments of OLEDs fell, as did LCD prices. Area shipment in Q1 was 8.14 million m², down 13% and area … Read more

PS5 Will Get Variable Refresh Rate in Update This Week

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony said in a blog post that the PlayStation 5 would gain variable refresh rate support via some firmware patches that will roll out this week and can be used with TVs and monitors that support the VRR function in HDMI2.1. 15 games are listed in the post as the first top … Read more

NPD: U.S. TV Buyers More Motivated by Screen Size and Picture Quality Than Price

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say NPD released data on the US TV market and said that the average size of installed TVs in U.S. households has increased three inches (7.6cm) to 47.5″ (120.7cm) based on the February 2022 retail tracking service and the quarterly device tracking survey. 44% of survey respondents said they bought a new TV … Read more

Omdia is Negative on 8K Growth

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say DTV Europe reported that at NAB in a session on UltraHD, Omdia had forecast that growth in 8K adoption would slow down. It is forecasting 2.7 million homes in the installed base by 2026. The firm believes that even in Japan, which has an 8K service, there will be just 75K households … Read more

Apple has officially launched its Self Service Repair program

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple put out a press release saying that its Self Service Repair system is now available in the US and will expand into Europe and then beyond later this year. There’s a new repair store for more than 200 parts and tool kits can also be rented or purchased. Toolkits are $49 … Read more

Sony Unveils duo of ‘ground-breakingly affordable’ 4K laser projectors

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has a couple of new ‘serious’ home projectors based on laser light sources. The VPL-XW7000ES (£15,000) and VPL-XW5000ES (£/$6,000) are both said to have light source lives of 20K hours and both use new 0.61″ SXRD imaging chips that have native UltraHD resolution. Both also use Sony’s top end X1 Ultimate … Read more

Samsung Hits Another Record in Q1

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung reported its Q1 result and saw record revenues for the third consecutive quarter at $61.4 billion and operating profit of $11.1 billion. Samsung Display Corp (SDC) had record results for smartphone use and said that for large displays the improvement of production yield of quantum-dot (QD) displays exceeded expectations. SDC sales … Read more

Chinese Whispers:BOE to Supply iPhone OLEDs

December 21, 2022April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Cinno Research in China reported that BOE has done a deal to supply OLEDs for the iPhone 14 and supply could reach 59 million units (around 25% or so of the likely iPhone 14 supply). (LGD and BOE Competing with SDC for Larger Share of iPhone Business) This means a significant bite … Read more

PPDS Shows Philips High-brightness LEDs

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say At ISE, Philips (PPDS) will show new additions to the 7000 L-Line series of LED displays that was launched in 2020. Peak brightness is 3,500 cd/m² (up from older models) and the 22″, 31″ and 41″ sizes ( 50cm x 25cm, 75 cm x 25cm and 100 x 25 cm sizes) and … Read more

LG gram: Portable 16-inch Display with WQXGA and USB-C

April 28, 2022 by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG released its latest Gram +view notebook add-on USB monitor which weighs 670g and has a 2560 x 1600 (16:10) IPS LCD display with 1,200:1 contrast, 350 cd/m², 99% of DCI-P3 and with a 30ms response time. Power consumption is 8W. The full line up of new Gram products includes six new … Read more

Kopin Corporation Expands OLED Business With New Customers, New Orders

April 27, 2022 by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for defense, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products, announced it has received new orders for its Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays and silicon backplane products for new customers and new applications. These competitive design “wins,” which Kopin has been working with … Read more